FDR's New Deal saved America from the Great Depression. Right? Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.us reassess the New Deal's actual economic impact, and speculates why the Biden administration would follow such a disastrously failed example…
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FDR's New Deal saved America from the Great Depression. Right? Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.us reassess the New Deal's actual economic impact, and speculates why the Biden administration would follow such a disastrously failed example…
Steve Dunn of Aberdeen Standard Investments believes a 10-year Treasury yield of 2% is when the Fed will be forced to act to weaken the U.S. dollar to keep debt payments manageable. That's when he thinks gold investors will flood back into the market…
Here's how a modest hedge fund forced some of the world's biggest banks into a mutually-destructive fire sale that wiped out $35 billion in market value and cost the banks billions in losses, all without SEC oversight…
The double threat of sequence of returns risk and volatility risk can wreck your savings, especially in retirement. Here's how you can build yourself a sturdy, well-protected nest to guard your "nest egg"…
The latest string of Social Security scams sweeping the nation are different, and can be scary. The perpetrators try to terrify you into paying them before hanging up the phone. Here are the warning signs you're on the phone with a fraudster…
CPM Group names sovereign and private debt, government deficits and loose monetary policies as the pro-gold forces to watch. The scramble to keep economies afloat worldwide have worsened these issues. And there's one additional factor in CPM Group's analysis retirement savers should watch out for...
Modern monetary theory says a government can print as much money as they want without fear. That doesn't quite take into account issues of currency devaluation or, far worse, inflation. Can financial wizards really conjure infinite dollars forever without dramatic consequences?
America’s mandatory retirement program offers an all-eggs-in-one-basket investing strategy that offers below-inflation returns. What's the problem, and why did their advisory council understand why we might call it a Ponzi scheme?
Mark Mobius sees precious metals as a necessity and recommends a 10% allocation as "an alternative and safer form of currency." Mobius is pro-gold but he thinks this precious metal will do even better…
Is the market going insane? Is an enormous “everything bubble” – inflated with cash flowing into overvalued investments – headed for a historic explosion? Is the market in a “mania” phase right now? Let's take a closer look…