Michael Snyder: How is money created?  If you ask average people on the street this question, most of them have absolutely no idea.  This is rather odd, because Read more…

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Michael Snyder: What is the biggest economic problem that the United States is facing?  Very simply, our biggest problem is that we have way too much debt.  Over the past Read more…

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Diane Alter: Moody’s ratings agency issued five U.S. bank downgrades Thursday and a total of 15 cuts for global institutions, but markets shook off the news. Read more…

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Michael Snyder: Yes, it is officially time to start freaking out about the global economy.  The European financial system is falling apart and it is going to go down hard.  If Europe was going Read more…

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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In a lively Saturday interview on King World News, Gerald Celente began by ridiculing the media’s propensity to jump from one hyped event Read more…

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Larry Edelson: Martin and Larry here, with an urgent report on the next, explosive stage of the European crisis now unfolding before your eyes … Yesterday’s election in Greece is just one chapter in this saga. Read more…

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Matt Hougan, Index Universe president of ETF analytics, breaks down five ways to tell if you’re using the wrong exchange traded fund. Matt explains how to identify the ETF that gives you the best exposure to the sector you wish to invest in. He notes that Read more…

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Michael Snyder: Many people hype “the coming economic collapse” as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster.  Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single Read more…

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Martin D. Weiss: Even as I write these words, the world’s largest economy — the E.U. — is coming unglued at the seams. The world’s second largest — the U.S. — is careening headlong toward a fiscal cliff that promises to gut its GDP. Read more…

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Direxion has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “Direxion Daily Financial Bear 1X Shares.” The Direxion Daily Financial Bear 1X Shares will seek daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 100% of the inverse (or opposite) of the performance of the Read more…

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Michael Snyder: The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be very similar to the summer of 2008.  Things look incredibly bleak for the global economy right now.  Read more…

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Michael Snyder: Another month, another bad jobs report.  For the month of May, the U.S. economy only added 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%. Read more…

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Stoyan Bojinov: Dividend investing has proven to be a staple strategy for investors of all walks; the appeal of a current income stream is only magnified in the current ultra-low rate environment, making dividend-paying securities all the more attractive. Read more…

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Michael Snyder: Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are “financial weapons of mass destruction”, and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Read more…

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Jeff Kilburg, TreasuryCurve, discusses his favorite banking ETFs with the CNBC Fast Money traders. While most people initially think of Read more…

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