US Debt Is Nearing $40 Trillion — Why One Fund Manager Says Gold Moves First, and Bitcoin Follows
US national debt is closing in on $40 trillion, with roughly $3.5 trillion of that added in just the last 18 months,…
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Doug Casey Has Warned About Debt for Years. Now He’s Warning About Oil.
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now at its lowest level since 1982, and it’s still being drawn down at roughly a…
Robinhood’s New Crypto Chain Isn’t Built for Crypto Users
Every early headline about Robinhood’s new blockchain framed it as a crypto product competing for crypto-native users. According to the executive running…
Is the AI Bubble Close to Popping? Wrong Question, Says This Strategist
Every AI-related stock in the market seemed to get repriced twice within a single week recently — hammered the day the Federal…
The Economy Grew Slower Than Expected Last Quarter — Here’s the Context
US Gross Domestic Product rose at an annualized rate of 1.5% in the second quarter, a meaningful slowdown from the first quarter’s…
What Actually Signals a Crypto Bottom (Hint: It’s Not the Chart)
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan’s framework for identifying a genuine market bottom deliberately skips price charts entirely. His signal instead is…
The Dow’s Worst Day in 15 Months, After a Fed Decision
Major indexes tumbled Wednesday, with the Dow shedding more than 1,150 points — its steepest single-day decline in over a year —…
What Millennial Retirement Balances Actually Tell Us
New data from Vanguard offers a fresh look at millennial retirement balances, and the headline numbers are, on their own, fairly modest…
What Actually Separates a Real Crypto Token From a Zero
Investor Mike Dudas, whose fund turned a $20 million position into roughly 100 times its original value, argues the crypto market has…