Fred Dunkley

Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• New Attorney General Tied To “American Dream” Scam

  Published 08 November 2018 | viewed 2,491 times

  Jeff Sessions is out, and the new acting U.S. attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, comes with some business baggage that should sound alarm bells for American…

• Markets Rally Following Mid-Term Elections

  Published 07 November 2018 | viewed 2,120 times

  With the market having already priced in the no-surprise mid-term election results, in which the Democrats took the House and the GOP retained the Senate,…

• Market Whiplash Over Trump Trade Tweet

  Published 02 November 2018 | viewed 1,855 times

  Global stock markets rebounded last night and this morning on the power of a Tweet that had everyone thinking that Washington and Beijing would reach…

• Trump Unveils New Tax Plan Ahead Of Midterms

  Published 29 October 2018 | viewed 2,433 times

  Trump’s new 11th hour mid-term election rallying cry is again taxes, and this time it’s a deal for those who were left out of the…

• Is Trump Right About The Federal Reserve?

  Published 25 October 2018 | viewed 3,018 times

  Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that the Federal Reserve Bank was the “biggest risk” to the U.S. economy, and suggested that its…

• Peter Thiel’s Controversial Big Data Firm Could IPO At $41 Billion

  Published 23 October 2018 | viewed 7,965 times

  ‘Lord of the Rings’ fanatics will not miss a beat here, but for the uninitiated, a Palantir is an all-seeing crystal ball that the evil…

• America Has A Milk Problem

  Published 21 October 2018 | viewed 23,130 times

  Not only does America have milk—it’s got a surplus of over 8 million metric tons, forcing dairy farms to shutter and farmers to simply start…

• U.S. Deficit Defies Economic ‘Boomtime’

  Published 16 October 2018 | viewed 6,579 times

  Despite a growing economy, the U.S. deficit has risen 17 percent for the fiscal year ending September 30th, hitting $779 billion. This is the highest…

• Retail Sales Rebound, But Is It Enough To Post Positive Earnings?

  Published 15 October 2018 | viewed 2,397 times

  The highlight of the current economic calendar is retail sales, and if your investment glass is half full, you’ll notice that U.S. retail sales for…

• “Enormous Piles Of Cash” Are About To Return To The Market

  Published 13 October 2018 | viewed 5,933 times

  With the equities markets taking a beating this week, and many falling in line with Morgan Stanley’s cry of “regime change” and prognosis that we’ve…

• “Rising Inequality” Could Impact America’s AAA Credit Rating

  Published 10 October 2018 | viewed 10,008 times

  Credit-analysis firm Moody’s Investors Service is sounding the alarm bells over “rising inequality” as the gap widens between America’s rich and poor, potentially threatening the…

• Have Banks Hit ‘Peak Profitability’?

  Published 09 October 2018 | viewed 2,620 times

  Big banks are benefiting from higher interest rates and an economy that’s still chugging along (for now), but Wall Street banks are under a fair…

• Fed Chair Speech Cost Investors $1.5 Trillion

  Published 04 October 2018 | viewed 3,233 times

  When Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks, investors lose money - and those losses have totaled some $1.5 trillion so far, according to JPMorgan Chase.…

• Ripple’s Legal Limbo Weighs On XRP Prices

  Published 02 October 2018 | viewed 15,334 times

  Three financial firms have just taken xRapid commercial, enabling cross-border transactions using Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency in a matter of minutes—but these ripples aren’t turning into…

• Buybacks Are Keeping The Bull Market Alive

  Published 27 September 2018 | viewed 4,327 times

  Bulls can celebrate the U.S. economy and seeming zero impact (so far) of the U.S.-China trade war, but it’s not necessarily invincibility that’s keep this…

• Another European Bank Falls To Russia-Linked Money Laundering

  Published 20 September 2018 | viewed 2,847 times

  The CEO of Danske Bank has resigned over hundreds of billions in money from Russia and former Soviet states allegedly laundered through its small branch…

• The New Ultra-Wealthy Benchmark Is $50 Million

  Published 16 September 2018 | viewed 3,169 times

  Millionaires are pretty much just regular upper middle class folk these days. After all, when there are 16 million of them, they get lost in…

• Turkish Central Bank Finally Moves To Contain Inflation

  Published 14 September 2018 | viewed 7,662 times

  After months of witnessing a desperately plunging Lira, Turkey Central Bank on Thursday opted for a sharp hike in interest rates, despite the Turkish president’s…

• Cryptos Pummeled Again On New SEC Attack

  Published 10 September 2018 | viewed 2,824 times

  Crypto is getting crushed a day after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) moved to suspend trading in bitcoin and ethereum-related products over their ETF…

• Trump Administration Escalates War On Social Media

  Published 07 September 2018 | viewed 8,544 times

  Less than a week since U.S. President Donald Trump attacked social media giants (on social media) for being anti-conservative—or, more to the point, anti-Trump, Attorney…