David Craggen

Staff Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• Ford’s Billion-Dollar Brexit Fret

  Published 26 January 2019 | viewed 552 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 1,054 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 912 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 1,034 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…

• Artificial Intelligence: The Good, The Bad And The Disastrous

  Published 20 November 2018 | viewed 957 times

  The risk of artificial intelligence in the workforce is more the “risk” of change than it is of usurping humans, according to a report from…

• Buffett Bets Big On Banking Stocks

  Published 16 November 2018 | viewed 908 times

  The Fed seems bent on raising interest rates in December, and the banking industry is the beneficiary, with legendary investor Warren Buffett hitting the point…

• IMF Calls On Central Banks To Consider State-Backed Crypto

  Published 14 November 2018 | viewed 1,213 times

  Governments have been talking about state-backed digital currencies for at least a year, but 2018 has seen the idea gain significant momentum—if only because crypto…

• Morgan Stanley Defies Wall Street With Bearish Talk

  Published 30 October 2018 | viewed 1,392 times

  Fed moves to hike interest rates are leading to a liquidity evaporation—enough so that Morgan Stanley is defying the rest of Wall Street to call…

• Will These Fintech Originators Replace FANG Stocks?

  Published 26 October 2018 | viewed 926 times

  High-flying tech stocks may be losing their FANGs, and payments giants such as Visa and PayPal are suddenly looking a lot more attractive, according to…

• Is Gold Finally Ready To Rebound?

  Published 02 October 2018 | viewed 3,274 times

  Gold isn’t boring anymore—now we can see the bottom, and it’s cheaper than it’s been since 2015, hitting below $1,200 last week after another fed…

• Is A Four-Day Workweek Feasible?

  Published 17 September 2018 | viewed 741 times

  This may end up being the century of the four-day work week, as companies begin experimenting with previously unheard of productivity tricks and studies seem…

• UK Unicorn Eyes Flying Taxis By 2022

  Published 13 September 2018 | viewed 1,109 times

  A British energy entrepreneur and former Formula 1 racing team owner, Stephen Fitzpatrick, thinks he’s got exactly what it takes to build a new inter-city…

• Are SEC Cannabis Concerns Overblown?

  Published 11 September 2018 | viewed 981 times

  Now that Cannabis stocks are suddenly shooting through the roof and even bears are jumping on board as whiskey, vodka and beer companies start buying…

• Koch Brothers Abandon Trump Ahead Of Midterms

  Published 03 September 2018 | viewed 1,394 times

  With United States mid-term elections approaching, a lot of attention is being devoted to the public feud between Trump and the billionaire Koch brothers, the traditional…

• Ontario Moves To Slow Cannabis Drive

  Published 14 August 2018 | viewed 923 times

  Canada legalized recreational use of marijuana in June, with retail sales slated to launch in October, but there’s a new conservative provincial government in Ontario…

• Housing Sales Are Slowing As Buyers Get Priced Out

  Published 31 July 2018 | viewed 689 times

  Rising mortgage rates and higher prices are squeezing buyers out of the U.S. housing market as new data indicates a slowdown that could be raising…

• Cash Is King Once Again For Wealthy Investors

  Published 04 July 2018 | viewed 2,744 times

  Equities markets are duller than dull right now and for the wealthy investor in the U.S. it may be about more than just the summer…

• World’s Largest Plane-Maker Threatens To Leave UK

  Published 25 June 2018 | viewed 826 times

  The process of the UK exiting the European Union is well underway, having kicked off in March 2017 and set to end in March 2019.…

• Trade War Fears Fail To Spook Legendary Investors

  Published 25 June 2018 | viewed 725 times

  Legendary investors aren’t worried at all about the seething U.S.-China trade war, while Goldman Sachs warns that the same is likely to drag the Dow…

• From The Midwest To Manhattan: What $250k Buys You Across The U.S.

  Published 28 May 2018 | viewed 2,594 times

  Anyone living in the American Midwest and chronically watching one of the many house-hunting or housing-flipping reality TV shows (from the comfort of their lovely,…