US Treasurys have long been the go-to asset when uncertainty, fear, and full-blown panic send investors looking for safety — but that reputation has take major hits lately…
Sabotage? Has the Deep State Destroyed Trump’s Chances of a China Trade Deal?…
Somebody out there apparently does not want President Trump to make a trade deal with China. Just after U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to suspend the implementation of new tariffs for 90 days, one of China’s most important tech executives was literally kidnapped as she was changing planes in Canada. Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was […]
Ouch!: Amazon Stock Drops $260B Following Trump’s Tweets…
Who says name-calling doesn’t hurt? Amazon investors can measure the pain of President Trump’s Twitter attacks over the past three trading days in dollars. They’ve lost a collective $260 billion as the e-commerce giant’s shares tumbled 2.8 percent since the president’s March 29 renewal of his social-media onslaught against the company run by Washington Post […]
Fed’s Crackdown on Wells Fargo Will Curb 2018 Profit by $400 Million…
The Federal Reserve’s decision to cap Wells Fargo growth until it sufficiently improves corporate oversight in the wake of a fake accounts scandal will curb the lender’s profit by as much as $400 million this year, CEO Tim Sloan said. The directive, announced after the close of New York trading on Friday, requires the San […]
Greenspan Endorses the Gold Standard…
In his remarkable essay, “Gold and Economic Freedom,” written in 1966, Alan Greenspan stated: Under a gold standard, the amount of credit that an economy can support is determined by the economy’s tangible assets, since every credit instrument is ultimately a claim on some tangible asset. But government bonds are not backed by tangible wealth, […]