Earlier we joked that lost in all of the Fiscal Cliff shuffle was the fact that the yen has been getting clobbered. SocGen’s FX guru Kit Juckes jokingly responded that far from getting “lost” the yen carnage...

Depending on the status of Fiscal Cliff rumors, it could be quiet today, but there are two important economic datapoints. From Calculated Risk: • At 9:00 AM, the S&P/Case-Shiller House Price Index for October will be released....

Over an early-morning coffee with the chief executive of a FTSE 100 business last week, talk turned to the outlook for 2013. Where I had expected some guarded optimism, instead I heard a chilling analysis. The CEO...

Last week I wrote an article in response to the media’s vilification of preppers in the aftermath of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut.  The article was quoted in an article on Yahoo.com, to my great astonishment, and that...

What a year 2012 has been!  The mainstream media continues to tell us what a “great job” the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing of managing the economy, but meanwhile things just continue to get...

TheEconomicCollapse What a year 2012 has been!  The mainstream media continues to tell us what a “great job” the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing of managing the economy, but meanwhile things just continue to...

The mother of the gunman who killed 20 children and seven adults in America’s worst school massacre, was a gun-proud “survivalist” preparing for economic collapse, it has emerged. Nancy Lanza, whose gun collection was raided by her...

The greatest trick Ron Paul ever pulled was convincing the world that the gold standard leads to stable prices. Well, maybe not the world. Just the Republican Party. After a 32-year hiatus, the party’s official platform will...

TheEconomicCollapse In the crazy times in which we live, it helps to expect the unexpected.  Sometimes you can think that you have it all figured out and then this world can throw a real curveball at you....

Evidence is mounting suggesting that the U.S. economy is strengthening while the rest of the world is deteriorating. In their latest FX Pulse note, Morgan Stanley’s currency team write about how the U.S. seems to be the...