David Craggen

Staff Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• Housing Sales Are Slowing As Buyers Get Priced Out

  Published 31 July 2018 | viewed 3,176 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 8,019 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 1,987 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 1,858 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 5,040 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,…

• Four Tips From The World’s Top Investors

  Published 27 May 2018 | viewed 1,927 times

  Wealth isn’t just a wad of bills or a collection of random assets that came to the right people at the right time: It’s a…

• The ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Is A Multi-Million-Dollar Deadbeat

  Published 17 May 2018 | viewed 5,005 times

  To a small group of pump-and-dump traders with no scruples, Jordan Belfort—the poster-child for the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’—is an idol; to most others, including…

• Chinese Electric Vehicle Sales Doubled In April

  Published 15 May 2018 | viewed 1,792 times

  Supported by a hard push by the Chinese government to drive up electric car sales, annual EV sales are on track to hit a one-million-unit…

• The Secret To Building Wealth

  Published 08 May 2018 | viewed 2,039 times

  Wealth isn’t just for the exceptional few, or the lucky few. It’s right there for everyone to grasp: It doesn’t come fast and it doesn’t…

• These Infamous Investors Are Predicting A Market Crash

  Published 07 May 2018 | viewed 3,268 times

  The bears have come out of hibernation after a 9-year bull run, and they’re ornery and predicting a market crash in the near future, even…

• The Wild World Of Weed Laws

  Published 05 May 2018 | viewed 1,879 times

  From trade tariffs to cryptocurrency, it’s the era of confusion, anti-clarification and contradiction, and now another regulatory quagmire is casting its shadow on the unsuspecting…

• Wells Fargo Receives Record-Breaking $1 Billion Fine

  Published 23 April 2018 | viewed 7,713 times

  Wells Fargo agreed late last week to pay a record $1-billion in penalties—the highest ever imposed—and it will end up being a lot more once…

• One Commodity Set To Soar On Russian Sanctions

  Published 18 April 2018 | viewed 2,330 times

  U.S. aluminum prices are skyrocketing in the aftermath of Russia sanctions that targeted giant metals miner Rusal, and we’ve haven’t seen the end to the…

• What Does A Billionaire's Bucket List Look Like?

  Published 16 April 2018 | viewed 11,950 times

  The rich have bucket lists, too, but instead of a simple sky dive or running a marathon, the financially well-endowed have their sights set on…

• Millennials Prefer Cash To Credit Cards

  Published 11 April 2018 | viewed 7,810 times

  Anyone born into the Millennial generation is likely walking around with a very slim wallet, if any at all, and most likely has a strong…

• Day Trading In Emotional Markets

  Published 10 April 2018 | viewed 2,198 times

  The market’s emotional volatility is so high right now that the softest whisper from Washington can instill fear as fast as it can calm the…

• $100B Tariff Threat, Weak Jobs Report Send Markets Sliding

  Published 06 April 2018 | viewed 1,957 times

  A weak jobs report and the market’s inability to decide whether it fears a full-blown trade war or not amid Trump’s talk of slapping another…

• Tax Reform Puts Additional $8 Billion In Shareholder Pockets

  Published 05 April 2018 | viewed 1,706 times

  U.S. domestic stocks saw a massive net dividend increase of $18.8 billion during the first quarter of 2018 based on S&P Dow Jones indices, with…

• 5 Stocks That Can Weather The Global Trade War

  Published 02 April 2018 | viewed 7,272 times

  The market is correcting itself, and it’s time for traders to shift strategies and seek out stocks that have managed to perform well on a…

• Walmart Chooses Sides In The Chinese Payment War

  Published 28 March 2018 | viewed 1,947 times

  The largest retailer in the world has just made a definitive move in the raging battle for dominance of the Chinese payments market, giving its…