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Economic Numbers Are Less Than Meet the Eye

Oil Is Back

Will the Saudis Try to Drive Down Oil Prices?

Most readers are familiar with the hyperinflation that plagued the German Weimar Republic in 1922–23. The hyperinflation actually began as early as 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War (1914–18) and the Treaty of Versailles (1919), which established reparations by Germany based on its responsibility for starting the war. 1922 and 1923 were

When I conduct market predicative analytics, I use four branches of science: complexity theory, Bayes’ rule, behavioral psychology and history. None of these disciplines is widely used on Wall Street, which seems wedded to obsolete methods such as value at risk, efficient-markets hypothesis and the normal distribution of market moves as reflected in the bell

When investors think of famous billionaires, like hedge fund kings Steve Cohen and Ray Dalio among others, they think of their success trading stocks, bonds, currencies and derivatives. That may be how they made their money in the first place, but what do they do to preserve wealth once they have the money? I’m personally

  We’ve written many times in the past about SDRs. That’s an acronym for special drawing rights, issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). SDRs are not hard to understand. They’re just world money printed up by the IMF as needed and handed out to their member countries as a reserve asset and source of

  For months, the world has been focused on the threat from North Korea and the hot war in Syria. The North Korean situation was heading for war as late as last December. But a thaw in relations starting with the Olympics in February and continuing toward a planned summit between North Korean leader Kim

Jim Rickards joins Robert & Kim in studio for a special show about economic forecasting. Find out how to determine business trends based on Rickard’s years of experience working on Wall Street and with the CIA and Pentagon. Find Out How to Predict the Future

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