Defenders and critics of “free trade” and globalization tend to present the issue as either/or:It’s inherently good or bad. In the real world, it’s not that simple. The confusion starts with defining free trade (and by extension, globalization).In the classical definition of free trade espoused by 18th century British economist David Ricardo, trade is generally thought of a...Read More

A more reasonable standard, of course, would recognize that iPhones and iPads do not have a single country of origin.More than a dozen companies from at least five countries supply parts for them. Infineon Technologies, in Germany, makes the wireless chip; Toshiba, in Japan, manufactures the touchscreen; and Broadcom, in the United States, makes the Bluetooth chips that let the devices connect to...Read More

?>>?PDAC 2018 – Viola R. MacMillan Award – IAMGOLD & Sumitomo from PENDA Productions on Vimeo.http://www.pendaproductions.com/ This video was produced by PENDA Productions, a full service production company specializing in Corporate Communications with a focus on Corporate Responsibility.This award, named in honour of PDAC's longest serving president, is given to an individual or...Read More

A differentiated dividend policy could yield a mother lode of dividend income in the coming years.Read full newsRead More

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Barrick Gold Corp, the world's largest producer of bullion, cut the 2017 compensation for its top two executives to reflect a challengingRead full newsRead More

A differentiated dividend policy could yield a mother lode of dividend income in the coming years.Read full newsRead More

A differentiated dividend policy could yield a mother lode of dividend income in the coming years.Read full newsRead More

Two people were injured following an explosion that took place Saturday afternoon near the Fred Weber Quarry in Jefferson County, Missouri. Five people were reportedly at the mine when the incident happened. One of the miners suffered minor injuries while another had to be taken to a nearby hospital. The cause of the blast is still unknown, according to local TV station KMOV.Officials from the Min...Read More

Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite threats of retaliation from China over U.S. plans to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese goods, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday said President Donald Trump had no intention of backing down and was not worried about a trade war.“We are going to proceed with our tariffs. We’re working on that,” Mnuchin told Fox N...Read More

Ryan Woo, Hallie GuBEIJING (Reuters) - The United States has flouted trade rules with an inquiry into intellectual property and China will defend its interests, Vice Premier Liu He told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a telephone call on Saturday, Chinese state media reported.The call between Mnuchin and Liu, a confidante of President Xi Jinping, was the highest-level contact between the...Read More

Just when you think it would be impossible for the Trump Presidency to become any more of a tragi-comedy, Trump manages to turn the volume up to eleven by appointing Larry Kudlow as his chief economic hit-man. In 1999, Kudlow predicted that the Dow would hit 50,000 by 2020:To direct his National Economic Council, meanwhile, Trump has nominated Larry Kudlow, who also proposed a wildly optimistic ta...Read More

Swati PandeySYDNEY (Reuters) - Fears of a full-blown trade war between the United States and China battered Asian shares again on Monday, keeping the safe haven yen near a 16-month peak as investors fretted over the fate of global growth.Japan's Nikkei .N225 stumbled 0.9 percent to a near six-month trough in early trade, due in part to worries over the stronger yen squeezing export earnings.Austra...Read More

LONDON (Reuters) - Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them.1/WAR CRIESIf fears of a trade war between the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, weren’t enough to set the nerves racing, the two sides are butting against each other in the South China Sea again and D...Read More

Trevor HunnicuttNEW YORK (Reuters) - Volatility in U.S. equity markets this year is pushing investors not only to invest in stocks abroad, but also to commit their money to an even more foreign place: the hands of stockpickers rather than index funds.A near decade of gains in U.S. stock prices has left investors on edge about the prospect that anything could end the party, including the prospect o...Read More

BEIJING (Reuters) - China pledged on Sunday to press ahead with market opening and reforms while reiterating that it will treat domestic and foreign firms equally and protect intellectual property rights.The pledge on reform and equal treatment came from Vice Premier Han Zheng, at a time there are increasing prospects of a trade war with the United States.Han, making his first speech since being n...Read More

Gold futures rallied Friday to their highest finish in five weeks, notching a weekly gain of almost 3%, as the threat of a looming trade war between the U.S. and China intensified. "Gold's gains feel unexpected, but considering the growing volatility in the equity markets and uncertainty surrounding the Chinese-U.S. tariffs, the implications from a larger trade war are sending safety into precious...Read More

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles taking a non-partisan approach to deconstructing the problem of school shootings, and discussing solutions.Post Parkland: Are We Missing The Mark?People love narratives, and why not? They help us cope with a sudden tragedy when the pieces of the puzzle are either missing, hard to comprehend or even when we find it hard to face facts. H...Read More

Martin Armstrong is a world renown economist and the creator of the Economic Confidence Model. He is the founder of Armstrong Economics - a public service and blog for the average person to comprehend the global economy and for professionals to access the most sophisticated international analysis possible. Read More

When Britain's Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle in May he is expected to follow a royal tradition started nearly 100 years ago of using a wedding band of Welsh gold.His great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, was the first to use gold from Wales in a wedding ring when, as Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, she married the future King George VI in 1923.Her example was followed by the current Quee...Read More