"inflation"

The credit rating agency DBRS released a new report on Thursday, November 30th that reported US consumer debt for the third quarter of 2017 at approximately $12.96 trillion, an increase …

With optimism growing that Congress will soon be passing tax relief for millions of Americans, stocks rallied in late November and early December to push the Dow Jones Industrial Average …

Not long after officially entering into its second bout of hyperinflation in the past decade, Zimbabwe is now facing political turmoil. After military action last night to take over the …

An interesting public-relations ploy in the mortgage finance industry is to never refer to rising prices as inflation. Instead, industry representatives always refer to it by the more palatable, and …

The word “capitalism” gets used quite loosely and seems to always be the scapegoat for the various economic and social problems afflicting society. High prices, economic crashes and instability, corporate …

Inflation, or the debasement of the currency, is not new. Political elites and ruling institutions all throughout history have been guilty of this mass-scale pick-pocketing of the people. Our current-day …

Venezuela’s government-run oil company, PDVSA, is falling behind on its debt payments. On Friday it will have to pay its creditors $985 million, and less than a week later it …

In the spirit of the old joke, “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not all out to get you,” consider the possibility the US is heading toward an economic …

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, has been extremely critical of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In early September he called Bitcoin a “fraud,” and stated that JPMorgan would fire any …

American household worth rose $1.698 trillion to another new record of $96.196 trillion in the second quarter, thanks to booming stock market valuations and re-inflated housing prices, according to a …