The great Chinese equity juggernaut rolls on. The Shanghai composite is up 14% this year, compared with the S&P 500’s sickly -0.1% performance. This, as we’ve noted, is a bona fide mystery: China’s economy is sputtering and yet its stock market only flies higher.ShareTap image to zoomThe tanking housing market is one likely culprit, as is the recent zeal for […]
© AFP/File Petras MalukasFear rather than euphoria is driving global stock markets to new highs, said Nobel Economics laureate Robert Shiller, seen here in Lithuania in 2013.See AlsoOPEC refuses to take full responsibility for crashing oil pricesUS Republican Ted Cruz confirms 2016 presidential bidPinball paradise lives on in Budapest basementFear rather than euphoria is driving global stock markets to new […]
Putin biographer: He’s not dead — but chaos is brewing in the Kremlin by BusinessInsider.com : Friday 02:45:00 CTCategories: markets, streamThere’s something going on behind the scenes in the Kremlin.Russian president Vladimir Putin hasn’t been seen in public since March 5. (Video featuring Putin on March 13 was not live.)Analysts are speculating that his absence suggests there may be a […]
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Companies trying to decide whether it’s worthwhile to create a friendly workplace could do well to consider this: Companies that employees report to be a good place to work have significantly outperformed the S&P 500 over the past six years.The data comes from Glassdoor Inc., an online job and company information website, which solicits employees to post anonymous reviews of […]
http://www.wealthsteading.com/podcastepisodes/wsp_076_150121.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Episode 76: Forget the Econ 101 you hated in school. It’s not about charts and archaic terms- it’s the essence of human nature. Economics is extremely important to be understood and applied in life.At its core, economics is about two things- managing scarcity and incentives. Master those two items and you’ll […]
CIA Economist Warns of Stock Market CrashPosted by: : Shayne HeffernanPosted on: January 10, 2015CIA Economist Warns of Stock Market CrashMount Weather is a national security stronghold located near the Blue Ridge Mountains.Its maze of underground bunkers is known as “Area B.”My colleagues have given Mount Weather the code name “High Point Special Facility.”This is where Congressional leadership was transported […]
Oil Price Crash Brings Pain, and Opportunity, for Energy InvestorsAs of this writing in mid-December, the S&P 500 is trading near all-time highs, but that figure understates the extent of recent volatility. Energy stocks are down by nearly 25% over the past three months, and there are now 37 energy companies carrying Morningstar’s 5-star rating. That’s compared with just 10 […]
Updated: December 8, 2014 at 10:22 pm CET.
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The year-long investigation into BTC Trading, Corp has finally come to an end. BTC Trading, Corp was the company behind BTCT.co and litecoinglobal.com. Both sites offered . The SEC has fined BTC Trading, Corp. (BTCT.co) and Ethan Burnside for violating the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and the Investment […]
Dr. Ron Paul, former Congressman from Texas, Presidential candidate, and libertarian spokesman, declared on CNBC recently that he sees a stock market crash coming. Paul traces back what he believes is a stock market bubble to inflationary policies conducted by the Federal Reserve:
I think there’s plenty of inflation, but my definition of inflation is a little different than the rest, because I think […]
The Big Data market is expected to grow to $28.5 billion by the end of 2014 and to top $50 billion by 2017, according to a recent Wikibon report. With the growing market comes millions of new Big Data and Analytics jobs that are being created across the globe. But the amount of new jobs far outweigh the number of […]
