This year, Independence Day feels a little different. We are sadly, and painfully, a divided country and now more than ever we need to show our pride and unity as a United people. I have begun my first

Did you catch the new bill being introduced for new legislation surrounding student loans? The bill where student loans (possibly $1,000,000,000,000.00) can be defaulted on through bankruptcy now? The

So how many of you clicked on this because of the photo? This seems to be the problem with Steemit., and maybe some of you can explain it. This is a platform where "quality content" is supposed

Now, please, before you attack me here and flag this, or write a mean spirited comment, I want to say right off the bat that I am ambivalent about Bitcoin, generally. I don't own any, and don't necessarily

We all know that money has meant different things at different times, to different peoples. For the last 46 years we all have become accustomed to our money being paper, or in the last 20 years or so,

Look at the above screen shot taken from: ( What do you see here? Well you can see that Mr. Inflation has sure been busy at work these last 17 years. Unfortunately, he has done the most terrible job inflating

I am not sure where I heard this analogy originally, but it has been on my mind for a few months, and it seems very relevant today. There was a very insensitive rodent experiment conducted in the 1950-1960's

"We are in a bubble." The President said it all campaign. The stock market, interest rates, unemployment. He was right then, but it was Obama's bubble at the time. Now it's his, and it's NOT

The DOW, SP, & NASDAQ futures are all selling off. (DOW Down over 100 points as of 0215 hours). The US dollar is selling off. Oil is selling off. Yield curve flattening out. What is going on here?

The Dutch tulip mania in 1637, the US stock market in 1928, the NASDAQ in 1999, the US housing market in 2006, the US stock market in 2007. There are so many examples of asset bubbles through history that

This is an interesting video, I will agree that we as millennials are the future (just based on demographics), but I've seen relatively no evidence that supports millennials being economically vialble.

With the main stream financial media talking up equities, the economy, and the "recovery," many are convinced that nothing can go wrong. Many are convinced, but some of us know that things aren't

The S&P 500 never looked better, until of course you realize that five stocks are holding up the average are the only ones in the green. There is an invisible crash happening and not one person in

@marketreport To know and understand the USD, "King Dollar" as it was, and the implications when we lose the status as world reserve currency is a subject only a few economists speak about;

In studying this simple concept, I created a retroactive, hypothetical, multi-generational study of trading the DOW/GOLD ratio from 1971 to 2016 just to demonstrate the power of this concept. Naturally,

Sure, the federal reserve has been hiking rates, albeit slowly, not steadily and into a weakening economy - for the first time since 1937, but to what end? Many believe the purpose of raising is simply

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