By FS Staff FS Staff – China is slowing down, and tariff troubles are only making this fear worse. We spoke with Shehzad Qazi, managing director at China Beige Book International, about his thoughts on China’s weakening economic conditions… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff FS Staff – Louis Gave warns that corporate debt levels are extremely high and the amount of debt that’s grown the fastest is just one notch above junk. That means during the next recession the number of companies that will be downgraded will… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Geopolitical Futures By GPF – Oil production in Russia is back with a vengeance. Whether Moscow ever really adhered to its agreements to cut production is a matter of debate, but the government’s most recent production data should put that debate to rest. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff FS Staff – We’ve seen several flash crashes and bursting bubbles this year, accompanied by frothy activity popping up in various sectors and asset classes. This time on the Big Picture, we look at what’s fueling these bubbles and subsequent flash crashes… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Josh Nunn Joshn Nunn – One of the biggest challenges that we face as financial planners is the expectation that we can predict the future. We’re not talking about predicting the winning numbers for tonight’s Powerball, but about the expectation… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff FS Staff – Patrick Renvoise, a leading pioneer in the field of neuromarketing and co-author of the newly released book, The Persuasion Code: How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime, explains how most of our decisions… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Kurt Kallaus By Kurt Kallaus – With oil surging to an October peak and perhaps the most contentious mid-term election in history on November 2nd, we posit that stock prices are moving into a trading range with a corrective trend starting as we inch closer to the election… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff FS Staff – What if we told you there are specific places around the globe where certain populations have found the secret of not only living longer, but living better? Tony Buettner, Senior Vice president of the Blue Zones Project, tells the fascinating discovery… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Dwaine van Vuuren By Dwaine Van Vuuren – There is a lot of focus on the U.S. yield curve at the moment given its relentless move toward inversion (when short-term rates are higher than long-term rates). Can the history of the yield curve provide for useful forecasting… …read more From:: Financial Sense