International Literacy Day, celebrated on September 8
each year, is a global observance dedicated to promoting the
significance of literacy as a human right and a powerful driver of
susta… Read More
Are the BRICS a threat to the U.S.?The summit
of the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)
has closed with an invitation to join the group extended to the
Emira… Read More
America’s federally sanctioned
entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, each face
bankruptcy in the next few years. Medicare and Medicaid were created in
1965… Read More
In the last two-and-a-half years inflation has become a four-letter
word. For the 40 years before that, inflation had been relatively benign
and for a huge percentage of the American publi… Read More
After ninety-nine years in business, Yellow, one of the nation’s
biggest trucking companies, shut down. The company has more than twelve
thousand trucks and employed thirty thous… Read More
President Joe Biden's administration concedes that there is no
scientific evidence to support an apparent recommendation to receive as
many as six COVID-19 booster shots in a year.After He… Read More
How would you feel if a million Americans lost their jobs? Would you consider that to be a pretty catastrophic event for the economy? Well, as you will see below, even… Read More
That’s how it should have been all along. But the Fed’s interest rate repression killed competition for deposits.People – and I mean massive numbers of people – have… Read More
Germany is returning to coal as it faces its worst energy crisis in decades, even as it officially pursues its climate change goals.The central European nation is consuming coal at… Read More
Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Lead Wall Street Push For Employees To Return To Office After Labor DayMost major Wall Street firms are officially "over" Covid and are setting Labor Day 2022 as the… Read More
The conventional wisdom at this time is that most of the world has moved on from the pandemic (except for China); therefore, supply chains will return to “normal.” Unfortunately… Read More
When you first start university, thoughts of getting a job and forging a successful career can seem a long way off. However, time can pass very quickly as a student, and before you know it y… Read More
Authored by John Tammy via RealClear Markets (emphasis ours),“COVID Has Killed One of Every 100 Older Americans.”The previous headline made the front page of the New Yo… Read More
It appears that not even oil supermajor Exxon, who has recently been struggling with its image as a fossil fuel company during the age of ESG, is immune to labor shortages.The company is in… Read More
US PMIs Plunge In August, Composite Weakest Since 2020Echoing the collapse in consumer sentiment, preliminary August data from Markit's business survey suggest peak optimism is long gone. Bo… Read More