Financial Sense
By FS Staff – It’s looking increasingly likely that we’ll see the GOP tax bill pass in the near future. Prepped for signing by the end of this year, the bill is sure to have sweeping effects on all taxpayers, especially those in high tax states...
By Reva Goujon – By virtue of its military might, the United States has the unique ability to quickly — and credibly — place its most intractable adversaries under existential threat. Command over the world's most powerful...
By Oil Price – In his latest stunt, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced that the country wants to launch a cryptocurrency – the petro – backed by oil, diamonds and gold reserves.
By FS Staff – Imagine the following two scenarios: You're a money manager and one of your bearish clients has been waiting for a stock market crash for years to get back in. Most of their wealth is in real estate, cash, and gold, and they are unwilling to invest...
By Mises Institute – The value of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, just like any other kind of money, comes fundamentally from what you can do with it. As a follow up to What Backs Bitcoin, I want to dig into that value.
FS Staff – Well-known money manager Louis Gave says “bubbles are everywhere you look” and things could turn south in 2018. Bitcoin and European high yield debt are two prime examples of the craziness we are seeing today, he told Financial Sense Newshour...
By Jill Mislinski – The 2011 article P/E: Future On The Horizon by Advisor Perspectives contributor Ed Easterling provided an overview of Ed's method for determining where the market is headed. His analysis was quite compelling.
By Kurt Kallaus – Republicans have been salivating over corporate tax cuts and repatriation of the estimated $2.6 Trillion in cash on US company balance sheets overseas that can’t be brought home due to double taxation.
By Oil Price – China should cut off North Korea’s access to crude oil following the latest missile launch from Pyongyang, and Washington has asked it to do just that, the US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said, adding...
By Michael Shedlock – Economist Joseph Stiglitz sees no socially useful purpose to Bitcoin and concludes it should be banned. The former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz Wants Bitcoin Banned.
By FS Staff – Right now, retail stores are closing at a pace that we haven't seen since the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Some are calling it a 'retail apocalypse' as a number of major headwinds approach, including increasing pressure from Amazon and the sad fact...
