Tag: Money Watch

Reuters | The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to a near 49-year low last week.

Zero Hedge | Traders were greeted with another sea of red from overnight equity markets.

Michael Snyder | Why would the IMF use the phrase “a second Great Depression” in a report that they know the entire world will read?

Mac Slavo | Interest rates will rise quickly and those hikes are going to be pretty big.

Free Beacon | U.K. leaders, concerned with Corbyn’s ties, ask for legal review of Corbyn’s Hamas ties.

Michael Snyder | U.S. bonds have not fallen like this since Donald Trump’s stunning election victory in November 2016. 

Zero Hedge | Two-thirds of business economists in the US expect a recession to start in the second half of 2020.

Michael Snyder | Over 20 major retailers have filed for bankruptcy since the beginning of last year, and in 2018 we may break the all-time record for annual store closings that was established just last year. 

CNBC | Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday described the U.S. economic outlook as “remarkably positive.”

CNS News | The federal debt increased by $1,271,158,167,126.72 in fiscal 2018, according to data released today by the Treasury.

CNBC | The longest bull market in history could be showing worrying echoes of one of the greatest crashes Wall Street has ever seen.

The Sun | The new levy was the gem of his keynote speech to the Tories’ annual conference.

Bloomberg | The U.S. and Canada have agreed on a trade deal that would save the North American Free Trade Agreement as a trilateral bloc, according to three people familiar with the matter.

CNBC | The Federal Reserve just keeps on hiking, and it could be setting the U.S. economy up for its next recession, says Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group.

The Strategic Culture Foundation | It’s not the military the US aims at this time. The real target is Russian civil aviation, which is on the rise.