President Trump late last week slapped $50 billion worth of Chinese imports with a new 25 percent tariff While the tariff had been long discussed, negotiations with the Chinese government in recent...
Monetary policy is one of those topics that only a handful of people ever devote much time to studying Most people ignore central banks during good times and beg them to intervene during bad times...
No matter which way stock markets are moving, there are always people trying to understand why they go up or down, or which way they’ll move in the future It can be tough to weed out the important...
We haven’t heard its name bandied about much in recent years, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still a major threat: inflation As John Maynard Keynes once wrote: Lenin is said to have declared...
For over one hundred years, monetary policy in the United States has been the purview of the Federal Reserve System Over that period, the dollar’s value has decreased by over 96% as the Fed has...
Stock markets took another beating last week as the trade war between the United States and China threatened to intensify After President Trump slapped $50 billion worth of tariffs on China, China...
Most mainstream economic commentary focuses on large headline numbers like the level of the Dow Jones and S&P 500, on the number of jobs created, or on the unemployment rate But far more...
The horrendous stock market performance last week has hopefully put to rest any notions that the Dow Jones will continue pushing upward to set new highs A market that is reliant on easy money and...
Counterfeit coins were once the bane of shopkeepers and their customers all across the world There’s no worse feeling than selling your goods and suddenly realizing that the coins you’re holding...
In a worrying sign for the fiscal health of American households, debt levels continue to increase Levels of credit card debt have increased 8% from last year, rising to a total of $905 billion That...
401(k) accounts have become one of the most popular savings plans for employees looking to save for their retirement Of the $266 trillion in retirement assets held by Americans, $51 trillion are held...
Thanksgiving may be over, and we may be recovering from our food comas and trying to work off the extra pounds we put on, but that’s no reason to stop giving thanks for all of our benefits For...