By: Ryan McMaken In November, Harvard economists Valentin Bolotnyy and Natalia Emanuel published a new working paper titled “Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators.” In the study, Bolotnyy and Emanuel study unionized bus and train operators to determine whether or not a gender pay gap exists, and what… Read More
By: Ryan McMaken After two years of a lot of aggressive-sounding talk about reducing the Fed’s balance sheet and raising the target interest rate, the Fed in recent weeks has reversed itself, and declared that now’s a time to take things more slowly. At the January FOMC meeting, officials: widely favored ending the runoff of… Read More
By: Ryan McMaken On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing military personnel to lock Americans of Japanese descent in concentration camps that are often euphemistically called “internment camps.” To this day, some apologists for the internment camps — and the harsh measures carried out by the Roosevelt administration — contend… Read More
Justin’s note: Is China taking over Africa? A lot of folks are asking themselves this question, and for good reason. You see, China’s pulling resources out of the ground in Africa at an alarming rate. Not only that, Chinese people are pouring into the continent by the boatload. That said, it’s not all “bad news.”… Read More
By Justin Spittler, editor, Casey Daily Dispatch The Vanguard Group has thrown in the towel on gold. And that has massive implications for the gold market. But not in the way most investors think. As you’re about to see, Vanguard’s decision could be extremely bullish for gold. I’ll tell you why in a second—and why… Read More
Justin’s note: Today, we’re handing the reins to our in-house commodity expert Dave Forest, editor of International Speculator. Dave’s one of the smartest guys I know. He’s a professional geologist with 20 years’ experience in the oil and gas, environmental, and mining sectors—so when he gets excited about an idea, we listen. Recently, Dave returned… Read More
By Justin Spittler, editor, Casey Daily Dispatch Tesla just put the rest of the auto industry on notice. Tesla, as I’m sure you know, is the largest electric vehicle (EV) maker in the U.S. It’s also one of America’s most loved—and hated—stocks. I say this because Tesla’s one of the most innovative companies on the… Read More
Justin’s note: Over the past few months, Doug Casey has been searching high and low for a bona fide crypto advisor worthy of Casey Research subscribers… and he just found him. His name is Marco Wutzer, one of the true pioneers of cryptocurrency… and Casey Research’s newest guru. Marco has been involved with digital currencies… Read More
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By: Ron Paul One of the few positive things in the ill-named USA FREEDOM Act, enacted in 2015 after the Snowden revelations on NSA domestic spying, is that it required the Director of National Intelligence to regularly report on its domestic surveillance activities. On Friday, the latest report was released on just how much our… Read More
By: Tho Bishop It’s amazing what you can find in the Mises digital archives. Here is a lecture by Ludwig von Mises on Socialism that he gave at the University of Houston. In the audience was a doctor from Lake Jackson, TX. After listening to this talk, he decided to run for Congress. This was… Read More
Best Selling Author Jim Rickards Michael Pento, President of Pento Portfolio Strategies, discusses what the next financial crisis will look like with best selling author and national security expert Jim Rickards. Jim Rickards is an economist, banker, lawyer, and capital market advisor for the Secretary of Defense and intelligence community. He is the Editor of… Read More
Michael Pento, President of Pento Portfolio Strategies, discusses markets, credit and why we don’t need the Fed with Forbes on Fox’s John Tamny. John Tamny is the Political Economy editor at Forbes, senior economic adviser to Toreador Research & Trading, editor of RealClearMarkets.com (RCM) and regular on Forbes on Fox. He just wrote a new… Read More