In our last article, we discussed the impending and ongoing financial crisis—the $6 trillion time bomb tick-tocking over our head. And, while we wish debt and the promise of crazy inflation was the only problem we face, it is unfortunately but one of the problems. The...
Anyone who has irresponsibly managed a credit card knows how stressful debt can be. It often seems to come from nowhere, sneaking up on you and accumulating huge amounts of interest that cut into your bank account. And that’s just personal debt—imagine the burden of a...
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse , The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review. His books have been...
If you’ve lived through the past five years, it should come as no surprise that it is exceedingly difficult to be an optimist—at least when it comes to your investment attitude. And that’s okay. Jason Hartman embodies the philosophy that it’s best to embrace what you...
We’ve all been in a “consider the larger picture” scenario at some point in our lives. Usually precipitated by an overreaction to a smaller event, someone will tell us that we’re misfocusing, that we should think instead about the big picture. And when we fail to...
