All of Wall Street is anticipating a cut to the federal funds rate at next month’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. The meeting, the last before Washington empties out in August, will set the stage for summer and early fall trading, with the following meeting not scheduled until September 17-18. While the Fed didn’t […]
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Whether you’re prepping for a big storm, a natural disaster, or a societal breakdown, there are a few key things everyone needs to do. These hold true whether you’re an urban apartment-dweller or a large landowner out in the country. Without holding to these six keys, you’ll likely end up flailing when faced with any […]
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If you needed any more indication that a decade of near-zero interest rates has completely upended financial markets, the massive amount of negative yielding debt should do it for you. Over $13 trillion of debt today is now yielding negative interest rates. That means that borrowers aren’t paying lenders to borrow money, the lenders are […]
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Turkey has always been an odd man out in NATO. The only Muslim country in NATO at the alliance’s founding, Turkey’s control of the Bosporus Strait made it a vital strategic partner during the Cold War. NATO control of the Bosporus was considered vital to keeping the Soviet Black Sea fleet out of the Mediterranean […]
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The millennial generation, those born between about 1981 and 2000, has finally come of age. Older millennials are beginning to reach their peak earning years, starting families and buying homes. Younger millennials are only a few years from exiting college and entering the workforce. And the millennial generation has finally become the largest generational cohort […]
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After months of planning and speculation, Facebook has finally announced its Libra cryptocurrency project. With a host of major corporations joining in the project, many mainstream analysts are hailing the new project as groundbreaking. But many in the cryptocurrency community are casting doubt on Facebook’s efforts. So will Libra end up being a world-changing currency […]
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As much as authorities in Brussels would like to pretend that the EU is as united as ever, major fissures have erupted over the past several years as EU authorities continue their quest to unify the continent. While previous discontent was largely confined to smaller and more peripheral members, the latest feuds are starting to […]
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If President Trump’s tariffs on all Chinese imports go into full effect, the average American family is expected to pay over $2,000 per year due to higher prices on the goods they buy. But they’ll only pay that if the imports from China are actually assessed tariffs. Goods coming in from most other countries aren’t […]
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With the popularity of gold bullion coins growing after the US legalized gold ownership in 1975, numerous countries rushed to supply the investor demand that had been pent up. Among them was Mexico, which began minting its gold Libertad bullion coins in 1981. Mexico has long been a source for precious metals from its mines, […]
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