This article has been generously contributed by Mark Solomon of the Financial Survival Center. For the small part of the general populace that is aware of potential challenges ahead, economic decisions are much more complicated. We are known...

Tonight we get the official and HSBC January PMI numbers for China that will offer insight into how the economy is doing. The official number is out at 8 p.m. ET, and analysts polled by Bloomberg are...

Openminds.tv The World Economic Forum recently identified the discovery of extraterrestrial life as an “emerging concern.” According to the Forum’s website: For over 40 years, the mission of the World Economic Forum – committed to improving the...

We’ve been saying for awhile that the age of crisis was coming to an end, but the world’s elites have finally made it official. The economic crisis is over. From Peter Coy and BusinessWeek: The hive mind...

 TheEconomicCollapse What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses,...

The trucking industry may be the best economic indicator out there. Earlier today, we learned that the American Trucking Association believes Q1 is likely to be a bit weak as new taxes bite.  But we just got...

Yesterday, we published a presentation by oil analyst Arthur Berman suggesting the potential of fracking to extract fossil fuels buried in shale rock has been way overhyped. But there are many who would argue that the assumptions...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans think jarring economic problems will erupt if lawmakers fail to increase the government’s borrowing limit. Yet they’re torn over how or even whether to raise it, leaning toward Republican demands that any...

When China announced better than expected trade data last week, a chorus of critics popped up again to question the validity of the numbers. Some used a 1930′s mathematical tool called Benford’s Law to argue that the...

[Many longtime followers of the Crash Course have asked Chris to update his forecasts for Peak Oil in light of the production increases in shale oil and gas over recent years. What started out as a modest...