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Billionaire investor George Soros discussed the strong potential for another devastating global economic crisis, in a speech he delivered on Tuesday, in Paris. In no uncertain terms, he said that “everything has gone wrong” and another “major” financial crisis is coming. “Brexit is an immensely damaging process harmful to both sides,” said Soros. While Europe

This blog has spent months identifying and explaining a myriad of obvious reasons that the stock market cannot continue its long-in-the tooth bull run. The oldest and still strongest concerns are: the common and continuing practice of public corporations to borrow cheap Fed money earmarked for maintenance, infrastructure, and expansion, then diverting it instead to

Lawrence Henry Summers is a former U. S. Treasury Secretary, with an impressive resume. In a recent interview with Bloomberg Television’s Erik Schatzker, he pointed out that in spite of the Fed’s continued “tightening” policy, it will be quite some time before the interest rate gets high enough, such that it could be reduced by

J. Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) testified this morning, before the Senate Banking Committee, in a crowded committee room on Capitol Hill. The day’s topic was “virtual currencies,” which were described as a digital representation of value that may function as “a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and/or