Black, Hispanic Families Lost Most Wealth Under Obama

http://economicrisis.com/black-hispanic-families-lost-most-wealth-under-obama/6595 Black, Hispanic Families Lost Most Wealth Under Obama Millions of Americans suffered a loss of wealth during the recession and the sluggish recovery that followed. But the last...

Structural Comparison of Current Bull Market to 2007 Rally

http://economicrisis.com/structural-comparison-of-current-bull-market-to-2007-rally/6440 Structural Comparison of Current Bull Market to 2007 Rally I wanted to highlight an interesting pattern that emerged from a quick comparison of the 2003 – 2007 Bull Market to the...

Are companies like Apple and IBM a buy?

http://economicrisis.com/are-companies-like-apple-and-ibm-a-buy/6439 Are companies like Apple and IBM a buy? Despite the remarkable run the stock market has had so far this year, high-value technology stocks are still trading at their cheapest levels since 2007,...

Bilderberg Sleuth Jim Tucker Dead at 78

http://economicrisis.com/bilderberg-sleuth-jim-tucker-dead-at-78/6306 Bilderberg Sleuth Jim Tucker Dead at 78 Jim Tucker, the ground breaking journalist who chronicled the activities of the secretive Bilderberg Group beginning in the 1990s, has died from complication...

Drone Industry Invokes Boston Bombings in PR Pitch

http://economicrisis.com/drone-industry-invokes-boston-bombings-in-pr-pitch/5857 Drone Industry Invokes Boston Bombings in PR Pitch In the wake of the Boston bombings, the president of the largest Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) organization wasted no time in pushing...

Before the Blast, West Fertilizer’s Monsanto Lawsuit

http://economicrisis.com/before-the-blast-west-fertilizers-monsanto-lawsuit/5364 Before the Blast, West Fertilizer’s Monsanto Lawsuit The suit, filed as a potential class action in U.S. District Court for the western district of Texas, claimed that Monsanto had...

The alchemy of gold investment

http://economicrisis.com/the-alchemy-of-gold-investment/5313 The alchemy of gold investment “You take a field that has little or no value and you do something to it, you create value” he told Mineweb on the sidelines of the European Gold forum. But, while value...

Follow Up Attack? Ricin Sent To Senator Who Ended Gun Control

http://economicrisis.com/follow-up-attack-ricin-sent-to-senator-who-ended-gun-control-filibuster/5032 Follow Up Attack? Ricin Sent To Senator Who Ended Gun Control Filibuster; Second Letter Sent To Obama A letter believed to have been laced with the deadly substance...

Envelope Sent To Senator’s Office Tests Positive For Ricin Poison

http://economicrisis.com/envelope-sent-to-senators-office-tests-positive-for-ricin-poison/4864 Envelope Sent To Senator’s Office Tests Positive For Ricin Poison An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S....

Californians: Prepare For A 50% Hike In Pension Costs

http://economicrisis.com/californians-prepare-for-a-50-hike-in-pension-costs/4817 Californians: Prepare For A 50% Hike In Pension Costs It is no surprise that pension funds in the US are significantly underfunded (median 72% funded). California Public Employees’...

2007′s “Mega LBO” Set To File Prepackaged Bankruptcy

http://economicrisis.com/2007s-mega-lbo-set-to-file-prepackaged-bankruptcy/4733 2007′s “Mega LBO” Set To File Prepackaged Bankruptcy When news hit the tape in February of 2007 that TXU would be acquired by a consortium of PE firms including KKR, TPG and Goldman,...

Gold and Silver – where do we go from here?

http://economicrisis.com/gold-and-silver-where-do-we-go-from-here/4691 Gold and Silver – where do we go from here? I stole the chart below from J.C. Parets’ write up of the MTA 2013 Symposium (h/t Josh Brown). It shows the retail buying as the professionals began to...

OMB: Obama Will Become First President to Spend $4T in One Year

http://economicrisis.com/omb-obama-will-become-first-president-to-spend-4t-in-one-year/4586 OMB: Obama Will Become First President to Spend $4T in One Year In the historical tables it released along with President Barack Obama fiscal 2014 budget proposal this morning,...

I Haven’t Seen Anything Like This In 60 Years

http://economicrisis.com/i-havent-seen-anything-like-this-in-60-years/3763 I Haven’t Seen Anything Like This In 60 Years “Investors continue to be amazingly complacent (the VIX is below 13). The prevailing sentiment is — nothing bad can happen as long as Ben...

Unspeakable Financial Destruction Is Headed Our Way

http://economicrisis.com/unspeakable-financial-destruction-is-headed-our-way/3624 Unspeakable Financial Destruction Is Headed Our Way “With all of the recent selling pressure on the precious metals, Eric, gold and silver have moved back to the bottom of their...