Is the U.S. economy about to experience a major downturn?  Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of signs that economic activity in the United States is really slowing down right now.  Freight volumes and freight expenditures are way down, consumer confidence has declined sharply, major retail chains all over America[...]

“Well done is better than well said,” Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790 The history of televised presidential debates in the United States goes back 52 years. On Sept. 26, 1960, two young and charismatic presidential hopefuls, Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon, faced off in the first such debate, before[...]

Wall Street is a “protected” operation. Protected means cops are aware of illegal activity, but are paid off to look the other way and even protect businesses from potential harm. So, if you’re waiting to get back into the markets once the trash has been taken out, you’re about to[...]

Central bankers Alan Greenspan, chairman US Federal Reserve 1987-2006 A disciple of libertarian icon Ayn Rand, Greenspan became chairman of the Fed just in time to save the global economy from the 1987 stock market crash from becoming a full-blown disaster. He went on preside over the boom years of[...]