They most likely would not be willing to bet their house (or mortgage) on boy X or boy Y winning, since their level of certainty hasn't crossed the threshold established in their minds, which is also based on already-adopted scientific Read more…
Total credit card debt among American consumers jumped 29% since 2015, reaching a whopping $807 billion in 1Q19, according to the latest Experian data. In the past year, as the economy cycles down, overall credit card debt rose 6%. That's Read more…
Rather than Goldman's standard “Then and Now” table, the chart below “plots the setup for next week's meeting across three dimensions, as well as their averages ahead of three major dovish shifts: September 2007 (at which the Fed abandoned the Read more…
Cushman & Wakefield's economists warned President Trump's trade war is unraveling complex supply chains around the world that have led to a slump in demand for industrial space. Another possibility is companies may have overstocked before the implementation of tariffs Read more…
To give two prime examples that occurred in Syria in 2018, latest-generation missiles were intercepted and shot down by decades-old Russian and Syrian systems. It is an excellent stick with which to keep a prowling Washington at bay. The effectiveness of stealth Read more…
Colorado has passed another major marijuana milestone, surpassing $1 billion in state revenue since it legalized the drug in 2014. Source: Colorado.gov Up to May of this year, Statista's Niall McCarthy notes that the state has seen more than $6 billion Read more…
The US military late Thursday released blurry, black-and-white video footage that it claimed – without any underlying analysis or further details – to show an Iranian patrol boat removing an unexploded limpet mine from the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous, one of Read more…
I think that every parent has the right to decide whether his child will recite a morning prayer in school. When's the last time you heard red wine drinkers in conflict with white wine drinkers. People have strong preferences for Read more…
As the boom in mortgage applications and refinancing activity last week would suggest, the return of interest rates toward multi-year lows this year is helping to pump more froth into the already bubblicious American housing market. The percentage of Read more…
Just this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping made his eighth official visit to Russia in a trip highly publicized in both Russian and Chinese media. The new venture will ship liquefied natural gas from central northern Siberia's gargantuan Yamal LNG Read more…