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The stock market has been acting like a dieseling engine all year long, taking one step forward and two steps back, then vice versa. Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average opens 4½% below its all-time high, which was achieved six months ago to the day. Income tax breaks, still lower unemployment, and higher consumer confidence

Central banks have a long and well-documented history of gold price manipulation, which shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone considering their history of manipulation with ALL other financial markets. However, gold is to central banks like Kryptonite is to Superman, they can’t ignore it so they must attempt to control it. They are terrified of

This chart indicates that gold got ahead of itself during the depths of the recession, but then overcorrected, causing its value to fall just as far downward in 2015 as it had swung up in 2011. Now gold is rising again in relation to the debt. If it gets back to its historical tendencies, gold

The U.S. election for President occurred a year ago this week. An army of economic analysts proclaimed that if Trump were to be elected President, the stock market would go into shock and collapse. At this point, it’s pretty clear to see that these trained analysts might be better equipped to simply report, rather than

The United States doesn’t want a second installment of the Korean War, but what would happen to the domestic and world economy if fighting were to occur? Though political rhetoric around the North Korean crisis has been dialed up to an 11 via social media, the 24-hour news cycle, and other sources of information, few

Janet Yellen appears to be on her way out as head of the Federal Reserve, and all eyes are on a shortlist of potential replacement candidates, particularly those with pull in the Trump administration. Each Federal Reserve chair serves four-year terms, and Yellen’s expires in February 2018. It appears President Trump carries a shortlist of

Realistically, the Fed has no direct control over the country’s inflation, GDP, or employment. Instead, it has to utilize monetary policy tools, like an adjustment to the federal funds rate, to affect the aforementioned economic variables indirectly. It must use the rate to stimulate or slow the economy, as well as the tool of adjusting

Ever wonder what actually caused the Great Depression? It might hit close to home once you take a careful look. The Great Depression happened far enough in the past that it doesn’t seem all that real to today’s young scholars. The Depression may occupy space in history books and is certainly a part of standardized

Surely, we learned our lesson during the peak of the housing crisis in late 2007 – right? Not so fast. According to recent indicators, we might be on the brink of another bursting bubble. The world was a different place in early 2007. You could still purchase or refinance your home using largely stated income,

Shockingly, Similar Great Depression-esque economic factors are prevalent today, just as they were during the end of the Roaring 20’s and the start of the Turbulent 30’s No one ever refers to the “Aughties” (from 1900-1909) or the Turbulent Thirties (1930-1939) when reliving history – it’s always about the Roaring 20s or the Swinging 60s.