Market veteran Lawrence McDonald has a stark warning regarding a recent GOP proposal spearheaded by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that calls for nixing federal interest payments to banks. The post shared by ...

Financial repression is what happens when the government needs to make its $37 trillion debt disappear without actually paying it back. I’ve been telling MarketWatch readers to buy gold, silver and ...

As a person living in today’s world we have to keep expanding our lexicon of terms since there appears to be a new one created every single day. Some of the terms are manufactured out of “Political ...

The trade war unleashed by Donald Trump may be just the precursor for much larger turmoil in the global economy. Whatever tariffs look like when the dust settles, deficits, surpluses and trade ...

The US faces a $39T debt burden, with interest payments set to reach $1T by 2026, echoing post-WWII debt levels. Historical precedent suggests financial repression—periods of negative real interest ...

The federal government, financial markets and most Americans are all in a state of denial about interest rates. Whenever someone goes on business TV, gets a mortgage or makes a long-term debt ...

Given investors still often think in terms of the traditional 60:40 equities to bonds split, that is pretty striking advice. It came from institutional investor advisor and financial historian Russell ...