Peter Boghossian is a philosophy instructor, activist, author, speaker, and atheism advocate. He is a full-time faculty member at Portland State University. James Lindsay has a Ph.D. in mathematics and a background in physics and is also the author of three books.The pair (along with magazine editor Helen Pluckrose) published "hoax" articles in real, scholarly journals in order to expose the incom...Read More
Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Eric Eggers, author of "Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election." Read More
Continue...Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and writes for The Huffington Post. Keiser invented "Virtual Specialist Technology," a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Prior to inventing this technology, he worked on Wall S...Read More
This week is "make or break" for the stock market, says strategist Charlie McElligott.If Monday provided an indication, "break" is more likely.Like a proud but aging heavyweight, stocks answered the opening bell with the best blood they could summon... and a chip on their shoulder.The Dow Jones was soon up and away, 352 points higher.But in later rounds stocks began to wobble... and stagger.By the...Read More
Kirkland Lake, Ontario - (October 30, 2018) - RJK Explorations Ltd. (“RJK” or the “Company“) (TSXV: RJX.A) has received results from the recent soil geochemical program on its Rolling Pond Property located in the Moosehead Trend of Central Newfoundland. The Phase 1 program was initiated to identify the southeastern extension of the Rolling Pond Structure associated with...Read More
"Civil unrest is associated with information cascades or activity bursts in social media, and these phenomena may be used to predict protests, or at least peaks of protest activity," Continue...Read More
(Adds comments, detail)MELBOURNE, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The world's biggest miner BHPBillitonhas trimmed its expectations of globalgrowth for next year and 2020 due to a "lose-lose" result fromthe U.S.-China trade conflict, a senior executive said onTuesday.BHP's modelling suggested the trade row would cut bothChinese and U.S. GDP growth by about a half to three quarters ofa percentage poin...Read More
(Kitco News) - Despite this October yielding one of the worst stock market performances since 1987, Janet Yellen, former Chair of the Federal Reserve, remained optimistic in her economic outlook. "At least in regards to the United States, I really think conditions are excellently excellent," she said during a live interview held at the 2018 Canada FinTech Forum in Montreal on Monday, "we haven't h...Read More
Gold will remain strong as long as global equity markets are weak.Gold's relative strength vs. stocks, bonds and currencies is growing.Without additional dollar weakness, though, gold's upside is limited. Without the intense fear generated by the global stock market rout, gold would surely be without any meaningful support. To that end, gold bulls can be thankful that gold's safety bid has...Read More
Correction in gold prices continues amid higher US yields and modest dollar gains. Gold suffers the worst slide in three weeks. The yellow metal corrected to the downside after reaching last week the strongest level since mid-July at $1,243/oz. Price bottomed during the American session at $1,224 amid a stronger US dollar and also higher US yields. The US dollar index rose mode...Read More
The U.S. is preparing new tariffs against all remaining Chinese imports if talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail, according to Bloomberg.The new round of taxes against goods from China could occur as early as December and target the rest of the imports from China, about $257 billion worth, per the report.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 100 points following the t...Read More
It wasanother wild roller coaster ride today with U.S. equities going throughtremendous price swings and closing dramatically lower on the day. Officially,today’s closing price in the Dow puts that index into corrective territory.TheDow Jones Industrial Average traded to a high with gains of 352 points. It alsotraded to a low, which resulted in a566-point drop only to recover slightly off th...Read More
Familiar trade-war concerns killed an early rally for stocksIt was a volatile, ugly session on Wall Street today, with the Dow up more than 352 points at its session highs before pivotingsharply lower late in the day. Driving the sudden U-turn was a Bloomberg report that the U.S. was planning on imposing tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports -- about $257 billion worth of goods -- should upcomi...Read More
(Reuters) - The United States is preparing to announce tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports by early December if talks next month between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail to ease the trade war, Bloomberg reported on Monday.The list would apply to imports from China that aren't already covered by previous rounds of tariffs, which may be $257 billion using last year's import figures,...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is not planning to extend an up to $12 billion aid package for farmers into 2019, Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Monday, to mitigate farmer losses due to the imposition of tariffs on American exports.“Farmers are very resilient and adept in making their planning and marketing decisions based on the current market,” Perdue told r...Read More
(Reuters) - Declines in big tech and Internet stocks such as Amazon pushed the Nasdaq lower on Monday, while strength in financial shares mitigated declines for the S&P 500 as investors grappled with a recent spike in market volatility.The three major U.S. stock indexes lost their initial solid gains from earlier in the session.Major tech and growth stocks, such as Amazon (AMZN.O), Google pare...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co will not finish paying back the estimated 600,000 customers it wrongly charged for auto insurance until at least 2020, the bank said in a letter to U.S. lawmakers seen by Reuters.U.S. regulators slapped Wells Fargo with a $1 billion penalty in April when it admitted to wrongly forcing drivers into auto insurance policies. That agreement envisioned the cu...Read More
One investor guru thinks this may be the next big play to make in gold.The world's wealthiest investors always grab the headlines...Especially with a track record that's off the charts, producing explosive gains like this:$1.29 to $23.86, where $10,000 grew to over $184,000!Or how about his record-breaking score last month, 9 cents Canadian to C$1.18 in about 2 weeks, turning $10,000 into over $1...Read More
WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury said on Monday it expects to borrow $15 billion less during the fourth quarter than previously estimated. The department said in a statement it expects to issue $425 billion through credit markets during the October-December period, assuming an end-December cash balance of $410 billion. Treasury also expects to issue $356 billion in net marketable d...Read More
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A five-year old Chinese smartphone company whose high-end products are little known outside a tech-savvy niche is entering the U.S. market on Monday with the backing of two key local allies: chipmaking giant Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and mobile operator T-Mobile.The foray by Shenzhen-based OnePlus comes after U.S. mobile carriers AT&T and Verizon this year backed away from plans...Read More