On December 23rd, the Federal Reserve will turn 100 years old.
We can look back on its few successes… but its many failures far outweigh any positives it may have achieved.
What’s at stake now is the Fed’s future. And it looks bleak.
The JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) $13 billion settlement finalized Tuesday tops the list of the biggest corporate fines ever in the United States.
Be careful out there.
The stock market rally that started in March 2009… The one that’s taken us out of the Great Recession and to new highs… The rally that’s driving sentiment indicators of people who benefit from rising financial assets directly, peripherally, or because they hope all boats rise with the market…
It just so happens I have both a “trick” and a “treat” for you today.
First, the “trick.”
Wednesday the House passed a bill titled The Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act.
The trick is, it’s not about improving the who-really-knows-how-many trillions of dollars swaps (derivatives) market.
Since the mid-1990s, China and a host of other foreign governments have quietly acquired one-third of all United States public debt. Foreign holders of United States debt held more than $5.6 trillion in Treasury securities as of August 2013.
But continued debt-ceiling drama in the United States is starting to change that.
How do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume? It isn’t easy, but I’ll try…
Senate leaders finally hammered out a debt ceiling deal today (Wednesday) that avoided a looming potential debt default. It also reopened the government that has been shut down for more than two weeks.
Yesterday (Monday), Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald appeared on FOX Business’ “Varney & Co.”to respond to China’s newly released blast on U.S. foreign policy.
Yesterday (Monday), Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald appeared on FOX Business’ “Varney & Co.”to make projections about what a stalemate on the debt ceiling will do to the market.
The biggest, and most ignored, trend in the U.S. economy is the ongoing divide between the wealthiest members of society and the average American worker.
Real wages are falling, while unemployment is stagnant. Politicians blame greed, but that’s because class warfare is a valuable tool to gain power.
I argue instead that disruptive technologies have accelerated this divide.
