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Source: Zero Hedge "If you receive your news via Donald Trump tweet, or courtesy of proclamations by Larry Kudlow, you'd be forgiven for eagerly anticipating a groundbreaking U.S.-China trade deal to be announced imminently, and thinking such a deal will save the...

Source: American Spectator "Depending on which study you read, at least half of all Millennials would prefer to live in a socialist country...Moreover, most Millennials favor a greater degree of government interference in ordinary life and are skeptical of cultural...

Source: Tamny/Real Clear Markets "While what fails in the private sector is mothballed, what belly flops in the governmental sphere is frequently rewarded with more taxpayer funds. That's why government waste is a first order redundancy. Of course it's waste. Absent...

Source: Wall Street Journal "After gaining a beachhead as a means to buy things online, mobile payments moved on to store purchases and are fast becoming the way many people in China pay for just about everything....Behind the trend are internet titans Alibaba Group...

Source: Zero Hedge "Something odd is taking place in the market today: the world's biggest central bank - whose balance sheet is 40.5% of Europe's GDP - unveiled massive monetary easing in the form of new carry-trade facilitating bank loans and an extended NIRP period...

The last trade you took destroyed you. It’s game over. That, or just another string of losses accelerating your drive to financial ruin. Funny thing is that you can’t seem to explain what happened, no matter how obvious or simple it was. A dumb kind of simple. But you...

Source: New York Times "The stock market is off to its best start since 1987, but these investors are expected to dump hundreds of billions of dollars of shares this year. So who is pushing prices higher? In part, the companies themselves. American corporations flush...

Source: Bloomberg "The so-called Green New Deal may tally between $51 trillion and $93 trillion over 10-years, concludes American Action Forum, which is run by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who directed the non-partisan CBO from from 2003 to 2005. That includes between $8.3...

Source: Charles Hugh Smith Blog "There are two generalities that can be applied to all asset bubbles: 1. Bubbles inflate for longer and reach higher levels than most pre-bubble analysts expected. 2. All bubbles burst, despite mantra-like claims that 'this time it's...

Source: Wall Street Journal "President Trump said Sunday he would delay an increase in tariffs on Chinese goods set to take effect at the end of this week, citing 'substantial progress' on issues including intellectual property and technology transfer after a weekend...