We’ve run this chart a million times, but we’re not getting bored of it. The S&P 500 vs. weekly initial jobless claims continues to be a beautiful chart, as the two lines have moved in virtual lockstop...

    TheCommonSenseShow As Feinstein, on behalf of Obama, continues her full frontal assault on the Second Amendment, Americans are being as united and as verbally defiant than at any time since the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War...

Barry Estabrook | The Atlantic Given that current production systems leave nearly one billion people undernourished, the onus should be on the agribusiness industry to prove its model, not the other way around “We all have things that...

For hundreds of years an elite group of oligarchs have ruled the land, fueled by a legacy of sex, money, power and greed…. in the last 60 years their power has become more consolidated as they have...

A country’s personal income tax rate is only one indicator of how much tax an individual actually ends up paying on their income, according to a report by KPMG. “Our broader analysis further emphasizes the point that...

Economics professor Mark Perry points us to a fascinating story. A Chinese man reportedly hired virtual assassins to kill his son’s World of Warcraft avatar after becoming frustrated with the amount of time his son spent playing...

“Political risk has entered our vocabulary,” writes Ian Bremmer pointing to the fiscal cliff, the eurozone crisis, and the turmoil in the Middle East. Every year, Bremmer, the head of Eurasia Group, publishes a list of the...

Sheila Applegate/TinyBuddha “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” ~Dalai Lama What comes after peace? Have you ever stopped to think about this? We spend so much of our...

It’s been a month of high drama on the economic policy front as leaders in Washington grappled with the fiscal cliff. But out in the real world, not many people seemed to care as the economy did...

As uncertainty about the stability of the global economy spreads and investors look for ways to diversify their assets, precious metals companies are looking for ways to cater to those who are seeking a safe haven in...