The Traderszone Network

Ric Edelman has a long and distinguished history helping investors prepare for life after work.

To be sure, the idea of “QE infinity” has been around for quite some time.

Once it became clear that the globalization of unconventional monetary policy had, for all intents and purposes, served to elevate central bank stimulus above economic variables and common sense in the eyes of market participants, it began to look as though withdrawing that stimulus might well prove to be impossible without triggering an outright meltdown in capital markets. 

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Carnival is set to inaugurate an $85 million port in the Dominican Republic called Amber Cove.

Can breakfast, chicken, and customization changes bring the Golden Arches back to its former glory?

Subsidy-eligible residents in these states receive anywhere from $310 to as much as $534 in Advanced Premium Tax Credits each month to stay enrolled in Obamacare.

George Soros want Europe to do a lot more for the refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants mass-exodus-ing from The Middle East. As he writes in a Project Syndicate op-ed, The European Union needs to accept responsibility for the lack of a common asylum policy, which has transformed this year’s growing influx of refugees from a manageable problem into yet another political crisis.

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On Friday we previewed what we said could be the next European black swan. 

In short, elections in Catalonia on Sunday were a proxy for an independence referendum.

The outcome is critical for several reasons, not the least of which are i) Spain’s debt-to-GDP ratio could spike to 125% in an independence scenario, ii) Catalonia would likely be forced out of the euro in the event they secede, iii) the impact on social stability is decisively unclear, iv) Catalonia accounts for nearly a fifth of Spanish GDP.

Here are the results, tallied amid record turnout.

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