Economy

There are two specific reasons why runaway inflation did not happen a decade ago, and why it won’t likely happen now, either:

2020 was a milestone in the sordid history of the long-running U.S. trade deficits. As the rest of the world cut back on buying U.S. goods, U.S. consumers were doused with government money, and they switched from buying services — from haircuts to plane tickets — to buying goods, a large portion of which was imported.

I have spent many late nights working up Precious Metals related charts using my usual angled line chart formations along with the historic Fractal Relationships on the charts and come up with price target potentials for the PM Sector that are just “crazy high” on the upside.

the complete collapse of our financial system is not going to benefit any of us, and there is going to be no way to avoid such a fate if we keep going down this very dangerous path.

Warren Buffett has been a vocal critic of Bitcoin in recent years, repeatedly dismissing the cryptocurrency as worthless and a risky, speculative asset. Here are 16 of his best quotes.

Below is the list of the top 10 strongest currencies in the world, as measured by their percentage of the foreign trade market based on their combined interest in the world's 3 foreign exchange markets.

Greed is a powerful motivator, but in the extreme it is cause for fear. Below we provide 10 reasons to be fearful.

In this article we review the characteristics and different stages of a bubble, present some recent asset price bubbles, and identify current conditions which match up with traditional bubble criteria.

Having given a lot of thought to both the differences and the similarities between Russia and the U.S. - the one that has collapsed already, and the one that is collapsing as I write this - I feel ready...to define five stages of collapse to serve as mental milestones as we gauge our own collapse-preparedness and see what can be done to improve it. Words: 2500

If you want to know how the global economy is doing let this simple indicator do the talking - and here is what it is saying these days.