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The desire to improve our social standing is natural. What's unnatural is the toxicity of doing so through social media. It seems self-evident that the divisiveness that characterizes this juncture of American history is manifesting profound social and economic disorders...
The 2018 US intelligence community budget saw its biggest increase in ten years and is now higher than it has ever been. President Trump's backers often claim that he's in Washington to fight the deep state, but it doesn't...
Paul Volcker, the cigar smoking former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, literally and figuratively towers over his successors (he is reportedly 6'7"). Mr. Volcker is the the last Chair under whose tenure American savers could earn a decent rate of...
Thinking about borrowing against your home to send your kids to college? Think again Many parents borrow against their homes to send their children to college. Andy Dean Photography/www.shutterstock.com Jacob William Faber, New York University and Peter Rich, Cornell University When the time...
Just months after Republicans and Democrats joined hands to gut key Wall Street safeguards, President Donald Trump's Federal Reserve began doing its part to loosen restrictions on massive American banks on Wednesday by voting to approve a plan that...
Yesterday I gave my updated views on the markets for Jim Goddard of www.howestreet.com.  In this interview I talked about how many former leader stocks have simply crashed this month.  I also noted how the market may bounce off...