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2016 came in like a bear; an alien bear from outer space with huge teeth and claws that destroyed everything in its path for the first 60 days of the …

Early in the morning of January 23, 1909, Captain Inman Sealby paced in the wheelhouse of the RMS Republic, a 570 foot, 15,400 ton steamer out of New York bound …

The plunging price of oil since June 2014 has led to a corresponding drop in the cost of gas, to the delight of most individual consumers. Per the conventional wisdom, …

It’s hard to believe today that in the summer of 2014, not even two whole years ago, that the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil sat at $115. …

There was a tectonic economic shift in 2015 and most of the world didn’t even notice it took place. Like any major economic shift the change started decades before. In …

One thing you can count right around this time of year is a series of gloomy economic forecasts. There’s a reason one of the stock market’s favorite witticisms is “sell …

Sometimes it’s hard to see what all the fuss over Greece is about. It’s a country with a landmass only slightly larger than Colorado and its main industries are tourism, …

One of the more frustrating aspects to investing is that there are many counter-intuitive forces at work in the economic world. One of those developments that’s hard for people to …

By the officially accepted standard, the U.S. is now the number two economy in the world. To be sure there are people now arguing that the standard isn’t fair or …

Many people look at successful stock market investors and imagine that they have some super-secret formula that they dreamed up to beat the market. Maybe they have a sixth sense …