In Super Wednesday’s central bank double-header, the Federal Reserve’s show may be an afterthought to the Bank of Japan’s performance. In a case of unusual timing, both the BOJ and the Fed will announce the outcomes of their monetary policy meetings on Wednesday. While the two major central banks frequently meet in the same week, a same-day announcement was unusual. The BOJ s...Read More
What Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is really about, explained with a cartoon … It's a constant source of news coverage, particularly in conservative outlets, where it’s turned into vessel for a larger message: that Clinton can’t be trusted. -VoxVox has written an article that minimizes suspicion about Hillary Clinton's larger transgressions regarding her "email scandal" w...Read More
Prospectors first found gold in Oregon in 1851 and they're still shouting Eureka today. Gold is closer than most people think too.Read full newsRead More
We Just Got Some Fantastic Economic News About Middle-Class Families ... America’s long, slow, and frustrating economic recovery hit an important milestone last year, as middle-class incomes rose for the first time since the Great Recession. According to the latest annual analysis from the Census Bureau, real median household incomes jumped by a surprisingly strong 5.2 percent in 2015, which...Read More
Help American Workers. Pass TPP ... Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have both said they will oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact between the U.S. and 11 nations negotiated by the Obama administration and signed in February. But their views shouldn't matter much, because the issue should never get to the next president's desk. Congressional consideration of the agreement has been de...Read More
Ethiopia has suspended a gold mining firm's license after weeks of protests in a town near the mine by local people who accuse the company of polluting their source of water and the atmosphere, a government official said.Read full newsRead More
Randgold Resources Ltd. fell the most in 18 months in London after a series of setbacks across its African mines hit both earnings and gold production.Read full newsRead More
Observing that “copyright is not a divine right”, the Delhi high court on Friday allowed Delhi University to issue photocopies of major textbooks published by leading publishers. The Justice held that the act of students getting books copied from DU’s library or its authorised photocopy shop enjoys protection under Section 52 of the Copyright Act, which exempts education from cop...Read More
Warren: Next Administration Should Probe, Maybe Jail Wall Street Bankers ... In trying to reopen the investigation, she's telegraphing her new Senate tactics-and sending a message to Hillary Clinton. -BloombergWarren wants to jail Wall Street bankers but she should apply her energy and eloquence to getting rid of the monopoly Fed and judicial decisions that prop up corporate America.Without the a...Read More
Barrick Gold, Randgold Resources, Newmont Mining, Freeport McMoran and Goldcorp all make the short list for stocks to consider in this commodity segment -- but which of them are best positioned to prosper?Read full newsRead More
She wasn't always like this ... No, Hillary Rodham Clinton was once willing to share her deepest thoughts and feelings, as she did in a 1993 speech on "the politics of meaning," delivered as her father lay dying, in which she said the country was suffering "a sleeping sickness of the soul," and urged her fellow citizens "to remold society by redefining what it means to be a human being in the 20th...Read More
Do prices create (market) "sentiment"? Or, does this sentiment generate prices? Investors will line up on both sides of that causal debate. For those investors who think that prices create sentiment, they might be especially interested in activity on the Stockhouse Bullboards over the past week.Th...Read full newsRead More
Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban, a fierce supporter of Hillary Clinton, said the Democratic nominee’s recent health episode is being overblown. “It’s not crazy, it’s lazy,” he told Business Insider in a Monday interview regarding coverage of Clinton’s pneumonia. -Business InsiderIt's a battle of memes and elite dispensers are growing irritated and increasin...Read More
A giant problem The rise of the corporate colossus threatens both competition and the legitimacy of business ... DISRUPTION may be the buzzword in boardrooms, but the most striking feature of business today is not the overturning of the established order. It is the entrenchment of a group of superstar companies at the heart of the global economy. -The EconomistThe Economist provides pre-eminent...Read More
BriefTrump Says Janet Yellen Is Keeping Interest Rates Low So President Obama Can Play Golf ... After months of surprising restraint, Donald Trump has finally started spewing conspiracy theories about the Federal Reserve. -SlateSlate writers and editors seem to believe criticism of central banking is "conspiracy theory." Specifically Donald Trump's criticism made a few days ago that Yellen is hold...Read More
'Crazies' Will Undermine the U.S. System ... Former Fed chief doesn't spell out whom he is referring to Says economic and political environment is worst he's seen ... Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan voiced concern that the U.S. economic and political system could be undermined by what he called "crazies." - BloombergOnce again we observe a meme we've been covering, populism versus g...Read More
Yeah, Hillary Has Pneumonia, But Trump Is Still A Deranged Threat To America ... Modern medicine can remedy one of these ailments more thoroughly than the other. -Huffington PostAs libertarian (former) Congressman Ron Paul pointed out recently (here), the "deep state" elects whom it wants and it seems to have wanted Hillary Clinton.And even after Hillary’s most recent collapse, articles ar...Read More
Hillary Clinton abruptly left the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in New York City Sunday morning after feeling "overheated," according to a campaign statement. "Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen," Clinton campaign spokesperson Nick Merrill said in a s...Read More
Trump Wants Border Wall, but Britain Is Building One in France ... The U.K. government has announced plans to begin constructing a 13-foot concrete roadside barrier at the French port of Calais, where truck drivers have been targeted by migrants trying to sneak through the Channel Tunnel. -NBCWalls are being built in the West not to keep others out but to keep citizens in. They are being erec...Read More
Green Party's Jill Stein Pledges ‘Truth’ About 9/11 Attacks if Elected ... US Green Party Presidential bid Jill Stein claimed that as an elected president she would launch a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks, because the probe carried out during the George W. Bush Administartion "defrauded the nation." -SputnikJill Stein is correct about the Bush administration "defrauding th...Read More