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By Nilus Mattive This post How to Claim Social Security Earlier, without Harm, and Combined with Unemployment Pay appeared first on Daily Reckoning. I’ve spent a lot of time and effort outlining the actual condition of our nation’s Social Security system… along with some of the changes that could be coming down the pike. Yet […]

By Jody Chudley This post A Tale Of Two Citigroups appeared first on Daily Reckoning. The time to buy bank stocks is now. More specifically, the time to buy shares of Citigroup (C) is now. That is the word from the legendary activist hedge fund ValueAct Capital. ValueAct isn’t just talking, they are acting. ValueAct

By James Rickards This post The Threat of Contagion appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Each crisis is bigger than the one before. In complex dynamic systems such as capital markets, risk is an exponential function of system scale. Increasing market scale correlates with exponentially larger market collapses. This means that the larger size of the

By Brian Maher This post “The Mother of All Systemic Threats” appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Another crack forms in the globalist edifice… The Dow Jones plunged nearly 400 points yesterday. The S&P dropped 31… the Nasdaq, 37 Bank stocks took the mightiest wallops — J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Bank of

By Nilus Mattive This post Investment Secrets from the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix appeared first on Daily Reckoning. The whole experience was pretty much sensory overload… For a car nut like me. The screaming engines… the screeching tires… famous names like Ferrari, McLaren, and Lotus whizzing by at breakneck speeds. There’s also the glamorous setting

By Zach Scheidt This post Today’s Vote appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Today is an important day for big U.S. banks! We’re about to see some big changes to the way the mega-banks in the United States are regulated. And today, the Fed is set to vote on a new set of rules that govern

By James Rickards This post A Trained Monkey Can Predict Markets Better appeared first on Daily Reckoning. The first time I appeared on live financial television was August 15, 2007. It was a guest appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box program at the early stages of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Of course, none of us knew

By James Rickards This post Fed Finds New Way to Blunder appeared first on Daily Reckoning. If you have defective and obsolete models, you will produce incorrect analysis and bad policy every time. There’s no better example of this than the Federal Reserve. The Fed uses equilibrium models to understand an economy that is not

By Nilus Mattive This post For Anyone Who Might End Up Needing Medicaid… appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Do you have a loved one who is disabled or has chronic health issues that may require long-term care in the future? Perhaps you’re confident that you can take care of the person yourself. Perhaps you figure

By James Rickards This post Welfare by Another Name appeared first on Daily Reckoning. I’m Jim Rickards, a colleague of Nilus here at Agora, filling in for him this weekend. One of the first things I learned as a registered Washington lobbyist, (yes, I admit it, I was a lobbyist in the 1990s), is “you