The World Health Organization says that the chances of the globe suffering from a worldwide pandemic continue to increase. But along with the increased risk of a global outbreak is the fact that humanity is far from ready for it to happen. If a similar situation to...
This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute. “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the...
For the first time in three years, the S&P 500 is in an earnings recession. And that’s not the worst news. Economists expect it to only get worse as the year progresses. According to a report by Market Watch, analysts surveyed by FactSet currently project a...
Because credit card rates are so much higher now than they were in the past, even a mild recession could crush those who carry credit card debt. The current national average interest rate on credit cards is 17.61%, just shy of the record set in July. By comparison,...
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog. What in the world is the Federal Reserve doing? For months the Fed has been trying to publicly convince us that the U.S. economy is “strong”, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell recently...
This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge. 20 minutes after today’s repo operation began, it concluded and there was some bad news in it: as we feared, yesterday’s take-up of the Fed’s repo operation which peaked at $53.2...