Diabetes is becoming an increasingly common health issue in the developed world. As a result of dietary changes and a more sedentary lifestyle, millions of Americans develop diabetes every year. Nearly 30 million Americans have diabetes, while an additional 8 million Americans may have diabetes but remain undiagnosed. Type 2 diabetes is the more common […]
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President Trump last week placed the blame for crashing stock markets on the Federal Reserve and its decision to continue raising interest rates. The President thinks that’s crazy and wants the Fed to keep interest rates low to keep the economy humming along. And while Trump stated that he doesn’t want to fire Fed Chairman […]
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Lost in the headlines surrounding the Khashoggi affair was the news that American pastor Andrew Brunson, who had been imprisoned for the past two years in Turkey on charges of supporting the 2016 coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was released from prison and returned to the United States. The Turkish government convicted […]
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International news headlines over the past week have been awash with discussion of the case of disappeared Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi, who had been highly critical of the Saudi Arabian government, disappeared in Turkey after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. While the Saudi government claims that Khashoggi left the consulate, Turkish authorities state […]
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In the wake of last week’s stock market drops, President Trump placed the blame squarely on the Federal Reserve and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Trump, who has stated in the past that he is a fan of low interest rates, is blaming the Fed for hiking interest rates too fast, calling that a crazy policy […]
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Last week’s stock market crashes sent investors scrambling for safe assets. While the Dow Jones lost thousands of points, gold shot up over $30 per ounce as investors poured their money into a traditional safe asset. But while traditional safe harbors climbed in price, Bitcoin’s price dropped several hundred dollars. That confounded observers who thought […]
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Google has been taking hits right and left in recent days, making a series of missteps that have observers wondering whether the company has lost its edge. It came to light recently that a software vulnerability in Google+ allowed outside developers access to private user data such as names, email addresses, and dates of birth. […]
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If weakness in the stock market earlier this year didn’t wake up investors and make them realize the underlying weak fundamentals of the US economy, hopefully last week’s stock market declines did. Just as much of the stock market’s growth over the past few years has been driven by tech stocks, so has much of […]
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Last week’s movements in stock markets were a wake-up call for investors of all stripes. Only days after reaching record highs the Dow Jones plummeted once again, dropping nearly 1,400 points in two days to cap a nearly 1,800 point drop from its record high. That drop made many investors reconsider their opinions on the […]
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The average interest rate on a 30-year mortgage rose above 5% this week for the first time since 2011. And while that’s still a relatively low rate historically speaking, the psychological impact of breaching that level will have just as much force right now as the economic impact. In a market that’s already jittery, every […]
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