The Flip Side

One month ago, when discussing the recent surge in Chinese corporate bankruptcies, we asked "Is It Time To Start Worrying About China's Debt Default Avalanche." Just a few weeks later, [...]

Update: We wish Malmstrom well but suspect, given President Trump's most recent tweet, that she will receive anything but a warm welcome... I told you so! The European Union just slapped [...]

Given the seemingly unceasing stream of scandal that has flowed out of Warren Buffett's favorite bank, Wells Fargo, it's hardly surprising that after doing everything from illegally repossessing the cars [...]

Four months after Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were allegedly poisoned by the 'deadly' nerve agent Novichok by what would appear to be the worst assassination squad ever, [...]

"I have yet to call for the end of Netflix... But I can see the ending on the horizon..." [...]

"This time, they charged him not with being a boor or a nincompoop. This time, the charge was the sort that could get a man hanged, or at least impeached [...]

Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, The world stopped growing about 1988... and has only grown older since.

Global births, per five year periods, according to the UN.  Births and UN medium and low variant estimates through 2040...plus my best estimate of the most likely births.  Despite the [...]

In a move that many had expected, President Trump lashed out over Twitter in response to Brussels' decision to slap Google with an record €4.3bn ($5 billion) antitrust fine, exclaiming [...]

Authored by Andrew Moran via LibertyNation.com, Democratic socialism is in the news again. Following Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning victory, helping her become a darling of the mainstream media, Americans are becoming interested in democratic socialism again – a philosophy that involves voting to steal your stuff. Two key planks of democratic socialism are to rail against the rich and promise everything for free, which then leads to the next question: Who’s going to pay for all that free stuff?

Building upon her national spotlight, Ocasio-Cortez recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to discuss her political brand and a wide array of issues important to her and socialists everywhere. But there [...]

Trump is about to have another OPEC twitter meltdown. With oil sliding in recent days on a combination of greater inventory builds and production increases both in the US and in [...]

After months of jockeying with its persistently better-positioned rival Disney, Comcast Corp. (the cable company and corporate parent of NBCUniversal) has officially ended its pursuit of 21st Century Fox's entertainment [...]

And cue another 'meltdown' in 3...2...1... While arguments continue over whether the Helsinki Summit was a success (end of Cold War 2.0) or not (most treasonous president ever), President Trump is [...]