Martin Armstrong | Yellen may have been placating Congress for negative rates would wipe out the elderly entirely.

Zero Hedge | It hasn’t been a good week for spot gold prices which have tumbled from $1,180 to just over $1,100.

Michael Snyder | Why won’t the American people listen to the warnings?

Mac Slavo | Most Americans are so strapped for cash at this point, that they can little afford to splurge on anything but the basics.

Washington Examiner | The U.S. national debt jumped $339 billion on Monday, the same day President Obama signed into law legislation suspending the debt ceiling.

Zero Hedge | Of course California isn’t the only place where the cost of living has gone through the roof.

Zero Hedge | Trump decided to target his ire at a more worth adversary:US monetary policy in general, and Janet Yellen in particular.

Mac Slavo | It is more clear than ever that the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program will eventually bring destruction to the planet.

Michael Krieger | It’s all starting to make sense now.

Michael Snyder | The stock market has been soaring, but all of the hard economic numbers are telling us that a major global recession is here.

Zero Hedge | It appears many missed the findings of how central planning has now gone full retard, so here again, are the facts.

The Daily Caller | When data for all four plans are included, premium costs will actually rise on average 20.3 percent next year.

Joshua Krause | Wealth inequality has long been the cause célèbre of the Left, who are always quick to point the finger at the private interests in our society.

Zero Hedge | Colorado HealthOP is abruptly shutting down, forcing 80,000 Coloradans to find a new insurer for 2016.