US dollar is Most Crowded Trade in World

Business Insider – Going long the US dollar is the most crowded trade in the world. And over the last several months, this has been among the best trades in the world. However, in a note to clients on Friday, Gluskin Sheff’s David Rosenberg asks if maybe...

The US: The Once and Future Superpower?

A devalued dollar, a struggling economy and allegations of spying at home and abroad . . .is the US on the ropes, beaten in the struggle for superpowerdom by booming upstarts like China and India? Not likely, according to a recently updated article from The Futurist,...

Inflation’s Low – Is That a Good Thing?

According to a new Business Insider report, inflation is hovering around one percent. That’s a good thing, right? Not so fast. Mild inflation actually helps the economy – and, as Jason Hartman always says, it can be an investor’s friend. Most Americans believe that...

The Dollar: Still a Go-To Currency

The venerable US dollar has taken a beating of sorts lately, with fluctuating values relative to other world currencies and challenges by the Bitcoin and other digital monies. But as a recent Flightfox report on the bustling black money markets in Argentina reveals,...

The Dogecoin: Stealing the Bitcoin’s Show?

Can the Dogecoin give the Bitcoin a run for its (pun intended) money? Although it’s only been around for a little over two months, the newly created digital money has already made headlines at Sochi’s Winter Olympics, where a devoted Reddit group used it to raise...