Economy

Should we be concerned when tepid economic growth and low inflation are accompanied by increasing public and private debt? Are we borrowing just to stay alive? [As I see it,] national governments will increase national debt loads in order to stay in power until one or more of them default. Then their will be financial panic which will most certainly be deflationary. Here's why.

There exists in the Congress, in the Obama administration, in the media and on Wall Street, a national belief that America can print paper money and grow its economy as its route map out of debt. With annual GDP growth expectations of 2% to 3% over the next several years, this is a completely false hope!

These days anything with a sustained gain is called a bubble that’s just about to burst so what’s an investor to do?

Martin Armstrong provides a remarkable explanation of what is going on right now with the U.S. dollar, bond yields and the current price of gold. It would be well worth your time to read and reflect on what he has to say.

War is as much a policy response to economic malaise as it is a political response to a threatening foreign power so don’t be surprised then if war rhetoric finds its way back into the headlines in 2015.

We are heading for a derivatives crisis unlike anything that we have ever seen. It is going to make the financial meltdown of 2008 look like a walk in the park.

This article takes a look at the expected trends in the price of oil, cost of living and currency wars and how they most likely will impact inflation.

Below are 6 specific reasons that contributed to the Great Depression and the stock market crash of 1929-1932. Are there any lessons to be learned from those events? Read on!

There has been a great deal of misinformation and propaganda - outright lies - about the $18 trillion U.S. government debt and this article examines 5 of the biggest such lies.

We keep hearing about how controlled inflation is but in reality, we are seeing increases in many important segments of our society. No inflation they say. Let us look at some key items.