Watchful financial commentators have been talking about the retail-pocalypse and the declining housing market of late, and those are certainly fair indicators of an American economy in jeopardy. Yet, we must not ignore “car-mageddon,” the precipitous decline in...
It has been well documented that major world superpowers like China and Russia have been stockpiling gold in massive quantities. You might be surprised, however, to discover that there’s an up-and-coming gold super-achiever out there which hardly anybody’s paying...
Iran and Digital Assets According to a statement released by the Central Bank of Iran, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology will be considered with “more freedom to finance and set up the development of the technology.” Since the reinstatement of sanctions in...
December 19 was not a happy day for FedEx shareholders. After an unsettling earnings report in which the company raised concerns over its flagging international business and lowered its profit outlook, FedEx was on pace for its worst day in a decade, with the stock...
The easiest money to spend is other people’s money, and when there’s no accountability or proximate consequences, malfeasance becomes par for the course. The U.S. national debt is frequently denounced in the traditional media as a burden, but the citizenry has become...