Markets

United States to Become the World’s Primary Energy Producer in Four Years

The direct and indirect impacts of the United States becoming the world's primary energy producer in the next fours years are just coming...

Bob Adelmann September 24, 2013

Chinese State-Owned Company Purchases Smithfield Foods

Christian Gomez September 17, 2013

Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the world, based in Smithfield, Virginia, has been purchased by Communist Chinese state-owned enterprise Shuanghui Group. ...

Jackson Hole Conclave: Central Bankers Plan Global Theft, Massive Pain

William F. Jasper August 28, 2013

Investing legend Jim Rogers: “They’re going to take our bank accounts and retirement accounts.” ...

Federal Court Rules That the Bitcoin Is Money

Bob Adelmann August 9, 2013

The federal court ruling that bitcoins are money is just one more step toward full and wide acceptance of the digital currency as...

Declines in Trust, Revenues Force Sales and Spinoffs of Newspapers

Bob Adelmann August 7, 2013

Back-to-back sales of prominent newspapers this week continues a trend at least a decade old as their readers increasingly get their news from...

Jobs Reports: U.S. Turning Into a Part-time Worker Economy

Bob Adelmann August 5, 2013

The gradual conversion of the American economy into one of part-time workers continues apace. The latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

Home Ownership Rates Continue to Fall; New Plans to Reflate Bubble

Bob Adelmann August 1, 2013

In the face of evidence that home ownership rates continue to fall, bureaucrats are trying to soften rules that were written to keep...

Walmart Shrugs: Pulls Plans to Build Stores in Washington, D.C.

Bob Adelmann July 11, 2013

If Washington D.C.'s Mayor Vincent Gray doesn't veto a discriminatory minimum-wage law targeted at Walmart, the retailer is likely to shrug, and find...

Taxpayers, Rockefellers Fund “Sustainable” Plot to Undermine Market

Alex Newman June 25, 2013

The Rockefeller Foundation, mega-banks, and even taxpayers via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have provided millions of dollars toward pushing a...

Central Banks’ Bubble Bursting, Sending Markets Down Worldwide

Bob Adelmann June 13, 2013

Central banking and Keynesian ideology make a toxic brew, the consequences of which are beginning to show up around the world. ...

Major Retailers Sue Visa and MasterCard Over Swipe Fees

Bob Adelmann May 24, 2013

After eight years of litigation, Visa and MasterCard are within shouting distance of their long-term goal: protection of a massive and increasing flow...