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Although physical gold, actual, touchable coins and bullion, is perhaps the oldest and most universally respected form of wealth, even today, a long-standing modern argument against it has been that …

China seems so far away, practically the other side of the world. As to the impact it has on our economy, it might be as near as Canada. In fact, …

Remember when flying the friendly skies was, well, friendly?  There was a time when air travel used to be fun.  But the airlines have made a lot of changes over …

It’s certain that the FBI, an organization with a dicey history on privacy issues, thought little about sending a request to Apple to unlock the iPhone belonging to one of …

It is only the beginning of 2016, and it is already looking like this will be one of the most challenging years ever for investors. It is becoming increasingly important …

In the years following the Great Recession, when employers were getting ten or twenty qualified applicants for every position, the key to getting a job was already having a job. …

Someday, probably sooner than we all imagine, Miami is going to lose to the ocean and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. It’s not going to be a …

North Korea is a little country with “little man” syndrome. Little man syndrome is someone short in stature who compensates by being overly aggressive and that describes North Korea quite …

The plunging price of oil since June 2014 has led to a corresponding drop in the cost of gas, to the delight of most individual consumers. Per the conventional wisdom, …

The national unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since 2008, at just four point nine percent. That’s so low that some economists are calling it full employment. That means …