Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must...
America is a "Mickey Mouse economy" that is technically bankrupt, according to Jochen Wermuth, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and managing partner at Wermuth Asset...
In August 2006, Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, offered what many considered to be an outlier prognosis for the economy: The exuberance would...
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- "How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the...
As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly...
Most Americans still appear to be operating under the delusion that the "recession" will soon...
The recovery is fading, and a troubling new pattern is setting in: economic growth that is too slow to put Americans back to work. Gross...
In his testimony before Congress last week, Ben Bernanke lifted the Fed’s skirt and gave...
It is a lazy afternoon. Or at least it was until I came across a blog...
A significant feature of fiat money systems is the privilege for the custodian of the reserve...