Real estate has experienced an incredible surge in price over the last decade. Appreciation has hit or exceeded levels seen during the subprime mortgage crisis. Cheap money has fueled asset prices, leaving

At the heart of our system is risk-taking. It’s an insatiable need for the proverbial cliche in business: “we need to keep the lights on.” Although some companies face this reality, many do not have such

What do rising interest rates and central bank liquidity mean to the average Joe? I ask this question because I am an average Joe, but I have a mind that is not distracted by the things that are meant

Is peak insanity rolling over, or do we have much farther to go? Will rising interest rates pop the bubble and bullishness on deflationary assets (like government debt) finally turn the tide? The IMF coins

News recently broke that Bloomberg would begin moving over to cryptocurrency market reporting. Bloomberg is a leader in market reporting, and as interest in digital assets has risen, so has the demand

The London Interbank Offered Rate is one of the most important metrics for determining short-term interest rates around the world. Americans don’t know LIBOR the way other countries do since we pay attention

Traditional economics show the correlation between the firm and the worker. The worker provides labor to the firm in return for a wage. Wages are provided by the firm via the profit made on the products

The Federal Reserve has had a monopoly on money for longer than I have been on planet Earth. The FED is supposed to be the buyer of last resort, and lately it seems like it may be the only buyer. Central

Since we are in a time that very much resembles the Great Depression, why not take a dive back into history. During the Great Depression, significant disinflation made its way throughout the U.S. economy.