Economic Trends

Through bad economies, awful uncertainty and down markets, optimists have stayed positive and taken advantage of the opportunities that unfolded before them.

Compared with many locations around the world, Silicon Valley isn’t much to look at. So what is the secret to its success?

The fear of a coming “civil war” is the single dumbest reason for cashing out of stocks.

I believe AI represents the biggest opportunity for savvy investors since the internet.

The greatest threat to the financial markets is the growing populist movements that threaten to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs: our amazing free market system.

Activists and local politicians pledged to do everything in their power to make life difficult for Amazon… so the company pulled out of the New York City deal yesterday.

If history is any guide, a sustained lurch to the left will have profoundly negative effects on the American economy.

China is far from embracing the West. Instead it has embarked on a systematic campaign to dethrone the U.S. as the world’s only superpower.

For this audience of aristocratic Brits, Brexit was about one thing and one thing only: The reassertion of British national sovereignty in the face of a creeping EU bureaucracy.

Americans recognize 1776 as the year the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. But there’s another reason 1776 is a turning point in history…