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JR Crooks: A “false dawn” is simply the “dawn before the dawn.” That is, a brief light that appears before daybreak. But are the early signs of a much-anticipated global recovery an indicator of more improvement to come, or simply a quick flash of light before darkness resumes? Read more…
Chris Martenson: A Broken Narrative: Recently I was asked by a high school teacher if I had any ideas about why students today seem so apathetic when it comes to engaging with the world around them. I waggishly responded, “Probably because they’re smart.” Read more…
Michael Snyder: The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don’t even realize what is happening. Every single year, millions more Americans fall out of the middle class Read more…
Michael Snyder: Is there one thing that Tony Robbins, Ron Paul and Ben Bernanke can all agree on? Yes, there actually is. Recently they have all come forward with warnings that the national debt crisis Read more…
Sy Harding: Another week of economic reports adds to the likelihood of a summer correction in the stock market again this year, and even to the possibility that it has already begun. Read more…
Jeff Harding: This interview with economist Gary Shilling reflects closely our thinking here at the Daily Capitalist: we are heading for economic slowdown, stocks are overvalued, and the dollar and Treasurys (30-year) are headed higher (30-year below 3% yield). Read more…
Michael Snyder: The U.S. tax code is a complete and utter abomination and it needs to be thrown out entirely. Nobody in their right mind would ever read the whole thing – it is over 3 million words long. Each year, Americans spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars trying to comply with federal tax Read more…
Dr. John Chapman: In the spring of 2003 then-Fed Governor Ben Bernanke travelled to Tokyo as the guest of the Bank of Japan’s Tokiko Shimizu, who arranged meetings for him with the then newly-independent BoJ, as well as the Ministry of Finance and Financial Services Agency Read more…
Neena Mishra: ETFs have gained tremendous popularity in recent years due to several advantages that they offer to the investors, including low costs, tax efficiency and transparency. As of the end of February 2012, assets in US listed ETFs totaled approximately $1.2 trillion, up 14% year-over-year Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: If indeed the S&P 500 (and other US Indexes) retrace sharply lower, what potential short-term support areas might be good targets, at least from a Fibonacci Retracement standpoint? Read more…
Michael Snyder: Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way. Most of them just assume that everything will eventually “return to normal” just like it always has before and Read more…
Martin D. Weiss: In the second half of 20th Century, you could count on the rising U.S. economy to lift nearly all boats. Sure, we had recessions. Read more…
Toby Connor: As convincing as this rally has been I am confident this is an ending phase and not the start a new secular bull market. Actually the bear market began last year in May but was temporarily aborted by massive Central Bank printing. Let me explain. Read more…
Jeff Nielson: In writing about the relentless collapse of Western economies, I frequently point to “forty years of plummeting wages” for Western workers, in real dollars. However, where I have been remiss is Read more…
Sy Harding: Almost a year ago in this column I pointed out the eerie similarities in April (2011) to conditions the previous April (2010). And sure enough the similarities continued into almost identical 20% market corrections before the bull market resumed. Read more…
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