Sputnik | According to US Treasury Department data, foreign investors, including China, Japan, Russia, and many others, cut their reserves of American debt in November 2018 by $105 billion from a year earlier, to $6.2 trillion.
Mac Slavo | The debt crisis in the United States of America has reached apocalyptic proportions.
Zero Hedge | An overnight rally in global markets faded overnight.
RT | The freezing of Venezuelan gold by the Bank of England is a signal to all countries out of step with US interests to withdraw their money, according to economist and co-founder of Democracy at Work, Professor Richard Wolff.
Michael Snyder | Apple iPhone sales are never supposed to go down. For nearly two decades, Apple has been an unbeatable economic miracle, but now it appears that times have changed.
Doug Casey | It’s well-known that you have to make a declaration if you physically transport $10,000 or more in cash or monetary instruments in or out of the US, or almost any other country; governments collude on these things, often informally.
Zero Hedge | “We urge them to treat Chinese enterprises in a fair and just way.”
Zero Hedge | “There are concerns that Mr. Maduro may seize the gold, which is owned by the state, and sell it for personal gain.”
Breitbart | President Donald Trump donated his third-quarter salary of 2018 to a federal agency that researches alcoholism, the White House confirmed.
RT | The United States economy has lost at least $6 billion during the record-long partial government shutdown which ended on its 35th day on Friday.
CNBC | It’s now turning to railways and more debt.
Mediaite | On top of all the legal problems that Donald Trump now faces, Don Lemon points out that the potential slowdown of the economy could be an even greater threat to the presidency when the Barack Obama effect wears off.
Mediaite | On top of all the legal problems that Donald Trump now faces, Don Lemon points out that the potential slowdown of the economy could be an even greater threat to the presidency when the Barack Obama effect wears off.
CNBC | Even with mortgage rates at the lowest level in three months, homebuyers are pulling away from the housing market.
RT | Former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan has warned investors to get ready for a painful correction in the stock market, as it cannot stabilize and unlikely to muster another rally.