David Craggen

Staff Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• Retail Is Still Struggling

  Published 17 June 2020 | viewed 1,589 times

  U.S. states are now open again for business, but the lines outside of places like TJMaxx might be misleading.  The question now is this: With…

• What’s Next In The Trump vs. Twitter Drama?

  Published 30 May 2020 | viewed 2,460 times

  After threatening to take action against social media that is not playing nice with Trump, the president late on Thursday signed an executive order that…

• China Targets Hong Kong As Cold War With US Heats Up

  Published 24 May 2020 | viewed 11,691 times

  China's  Communist Party has set in motion a controversial national security law for Hong Kong, a move that is seen as a major blow to…

• Smart Money Is Racing Into The Biotech Boom

  Published 07 May 2020 | viewed 1,558 times

  The biotech boom is back. After its big breakthrough a few years ago, the biotech industry fell silent. Now, it is in the spotlight once…

• 2020’s Biotech Boom Has Only Just Begun

  Published 05 May 2020 | viewed 1,195 times

  Millions across the globe are struggling with their mental health, and the COVID-19 pandemic is compounding a crisis that has been ignored throughout history.  The…

• New Study Equates Luxury Cars With Low Self-Esteem

  Published 26 February 2020 | viewed 2,460 times

  Cars are, as always, a reflection of our personality, whether it’s our indifference to automotive glory on one hand, or our need to drive a…

• Analysts Link Walking To Economic Growth

  Published 10 November 2019 | viewed 2,245 times

  Contrary to other studies about the amount of time one should exercise in order to stay healthy, a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report says…

• The Unknown Media Giant Taking The World By Storm

  Published 08 September 2019 | viewed 692 times

  If today’s gold is data, and the data of each individual is worth about $200, then a content management company reaching 100 million people is…

• U.S. Companies Aren't Bailing On China Just Yet

  Published 02 September 2019 | viewed 1,687 times

  Earlier this month, Trump ordered U.S. companies out of China.  In Twitter litany last week, Trump opined that China has “stolen” vast amounts of money…

• Bankruptcy Is The Only Choice For Many Retailers

  Published 23 August 2019 | viewed 2,982 times

  By the end of this year, retail store closures in the U.S. could reach 12,000, and by 2026, UBS forecasts that 75,000 stores will close…

• How Did 7 Million Tons Of Venezuelan Gold End Up In Africa?

  Published 19 June 2019 | viewed 5,816 times

  Back in March, a Uganda-based gold refinery was caught importing a massive 7.4 million tons of gold under questionable circumstances. At the time, no one…

• Is Wealth Genetic?

  Published 07 April 2019 | viewed 3,707 times

  Depending on where you stand in the ancestral hierarchy, you will either be elated or thoroughly depressed to learn that a new study says that…

• China’s Disgraced Internet “Cleaner” Gets 14 Years For Corruption

  Published 27 March 2019 | viewed 4,164 times

  At one point a few years ago, China’s then-chief internet regulator, Lu Wei, was so powerful that Time magazine felt justified in listing him as…

• Russian Metals Magnate Sues U.S. Over Sanctions

  Published 19 March 2019 | viewed 1,083 times

  Sanctions against individual Russian oligarchs work, at least according to a lawsuit filed by Kremlin friend Oleg Deripaska, claiming that he’s lost billions, and decrying…

• Goldman Defends Trillion-Dollar Corporate Buyback Spree

  Published 14 March 2019 | viewed 1,385 times

  There’s been a lot of dramatic talk lately about the evils of the new wave of corporate buybacks that soared past $1.1 trillion in 2018…

• U.S. Manufacturing Sees First Massive Strike In 3 Years

  Published 02 March 2019 | viewed 1,246 times

  GE workers have seen better days—better decades, indeed. Nearly 2,000 workers at a General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, went on strike after workers union…

• Ford’s Billion-Dollar Brexit Fret

  Published 26 January 2019 | viewed 1,091 times

  The UK’s auto industry is worth over $100 billion, and things are about to get messy with a Brexit deal up in the air, and…

• May Survives No-Confidence Vote Despite Huge Loss On Brexit Deal

  Published 16 January 2019 | viewed 1,592 times

  British PM Theresa May’s Brexit deal lost by a huge margin on Tuesday, and though her government survived a no-confidence vote, the country’s exit from…

• Cuba Isn’t Quite Ready To Ditch Communism

  Published 26 December 2018 | viewed 3,874 times

  Cubans aren’t as fed up with communism as one might think, despite decades of media opening to the effect that it’s a system preferred only…

• What Warren Buffett Does With His Billions

  Published 27 November 2018 | viewed 4,643 times

  While everyone’s keen to take a few pages out of Warren Buffett’s book for investing and making billions, fewer seem interested in learning other important…