By Urban Carmel By Urban Carmel – Starting around the year 2000, many investors began obsessing over the aging demographic profile in the United States. The concern seemed reasonable. The working age population in Japan had peaked in 1995, 5 years after the Nikkei… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Peter Boockvar By Peter Boockvar – China is discussing the end of all restrictions on having kids “according to people familiar with the matter” according to BN. They reported that “The State Council, China’s cabinet, has commissioned research on the repercussions… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – This time on Financial Sense, we look back on a 2014 interview with Joel Kurtzman to discuss his book, Unleashing the Second American Century: Four Forces for Economic Dominance. As we were coming out of the Great Recession, Kurtzman… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Tom McClellan By Tom McClellan – If this were a “normal” 2nd year of a presidential term, we would now be in a corrective period due to last until just before the mid-term elections. But as many in the press have noted, we do not have… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Daniel Amerman CFA By Dan Amerman – Could a committee of unelected officials increase your household’s share of the national debt by $60,000 in a single meeting? In normal times – they could not. However, these are not normal times and any… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Kurt Kallaus By Kurt Kallaus – As the China trade war rhetoric in 2018 finally shifts toward intensifying negotiations in late May, the clueless global audience are pawns in a tit-for-tat public relations (PR) campaign by the US and China. The US is demanding the elimination… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – The summer driving season is just around the corner and this year motorists are facing steeper prices for fuel, up from an average of $2.19 a gallon in 2016 to $2.87 today. By this summer, analysts are projecting gas prices to top $3 a gallon… …read more From::

By FS Staff By FS Staff – The Fed is set on a rate-raising trajectory, largely because of burgeoning inflation. Jim Bianco with Bianco Research, who recently held a conference call titled Regime Shifts Are Not Pretty, takes a look at how… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Ryan Puplava CMT By Ryan Puplava CMT – The trend towards higher inflation continues to strengthen. Today’s release of the Empire Manufacturing Survey for May showed a pickup in the prices paid index to a seven-year high, matching levels not seen since… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Matthew Kerkhoff By Matthew Kerkhoff – With each passing day it looks increasingly likely that the February swoon was simply a run-of-the-mill correction, as opposed to the beginning of a full-fledged bear market. But that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods just yet… …read more From:: Financial Sense