By Michael Maharrey Last week, the California Senate passed a bill that would establish limited state-chartered banks to serve the cannabis industry. Final passage of…
By Clint Siegner Practically nobody enters the foreign exchange markets looking to buy and hold. Currency trading is generally a short-term game, and there isn’t…
By Activist Post A Member of Congress posed some pointed questions to the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury this week about their activities involving…
By Brandon Smith I hear a lot of talk lately in the alternative media (and even the mainstream media) of the potential for World War…
By Matt Agorist In the State’s relentless pursuit to scrutinize and control every citizen, including monitoring, tracking, and especially taxing their income, untraceable physical cash…
By Brandon Smith If you have been following the public commentary from central banks around the world the past few months, you know that there…
By Charles Hugh Smith Strip an economy of capital, productive incentives, talent and yes, ethics, and what are we left with? An economy spiraling toward…
By Brandon Smith I remember back in mid-2013 when the Federal Reserve fielded the notion of a “taper” of quantitative easing measures. More specifically, I…
By Clint Siegner Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen says she is planning more hikes in the Fed funds rate, but you wouldn’t know it by…
By Shaun Bradley Most people haven’t studied economics and don’t understand the contributing factors that led to the Great Recession, so they still view the…
By Rachel Blevins While some may have called it a conspiracy theory at one point, a new report is shedding light on the United States…
By Brandon Smith I have written on the subject of the Federal Reserve’s deliberate sabotage of the U.S. economy many times in the past. In…
By Shaun Bradley The United States’ ability to maintain its influence over the rest of the world has been slowly diminishing. Since the petrodollar was…
By David Haggith We just saw a major rift open in the US stock market that we haven’t seen since the dot-com bust in 1999. While…