Fred Dunkley

Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• China’s Economic Boom Is Losing Momentum

  Published 03 September 2018 | viewed 3,206 times

  Output of Chinese manufacturers has continued to expand, but there are clear signs of weakness in August and indications that the tariff wars are taking…

• 3D Guns: Where Tech And Anarchy Merge

  Published 02 September 2018 | viewed 3,593 times

  Need a gun and don't want it traced back to you? You're in luck: 3D gun-printing is here, and blueprints are for sale, without all…

• China Plans To Fire Back Against New U.S. Tariffs

  Published 23 August 2018 | viewed 13,859 times

  An additional 25-percent tariff on $16 billion in Chinese imports covering 279 products came into effect today, in a move that has led to an…

• Standards Go Out The Window As Employers Struggle To Fill Jobs

  Published 15 August 2018 | viewed 10,708 times

  Getting a job in the United States has never been easier. The U.S. unemployment rate dipped to 3.9 percent in July, the lowest point since…

• Lockheed Stock Soars On $480M Pentagon Contract

  Published 14 August 2018 | viewed 2,652 times

  Defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp’s (NYSE:LMT) shares closed up Monday 17 percent and continued to climb after hours and into Tuesday, briefly hitting $319 following…

• Fraudsters Target Taxpayers In Million-Dollar Scam

  Published 09 August 2018 | viewed 2,344 times

  Back in the 2016 tax season, there was a spate of fraudulent tax scams that unnerved the entire nation. The IRS reported a massive 400…

• Europe’s American Soybean Imports Increase 280% In July

  Published 03 August 2018 | viewed 19,669 times

  As the tariff tiff continues its incessant back and forth between China and the U.S., the European Union emerges as a major importer of American…

• Treasury Mulling Unilateral $100B Capital Gains Tax Cut

  Published 31 July 2018 | viewed 4,915 times

  A $100-billion tax cut would reduce capital gains payouts by indexing those gains to inflation, and if Democrats won’t let it through legislatively, Trump is…

• U.S. Economic Growth Surges In Second Quarter

  Published 27 July 2018 | viewed 4,646 times

  Trump was forecasting a 5-percent increase in GDP for today’s economic report ahead of the fact, with actual numbers coming in at 4.1 percent increase…

• How Corporate America Is Filling The Gaps In Public Education

  Published 17 July 2018 | viewed 3,971 times

  America is trying to win a race of technological dominance over China, but the education system isn’t exactly playing along, and increasingly, it’s up to…

• 85 Year Old’s Are Still Working Because They Can’t Retire

  Published 10 July 2018 | viewed 2,418 times

  American life expectancies are growing, retirement plans are dwindling and work is becoming less physical and more automated. It all adds up to this: American’s…

• AT&T Poised To Profit Big In The Digital Ad Space

  Published 09 July 2018 | viewed 2,275 times

  In 2016, well before AT&T announced its intention to acquire giant media conglomerate Time Warner, CEO Randall Stephenson publicly prodded employees to reinvent the company…

• Slow Wage Growth, Higher Unemployment In June Jobs Report

  Published 06 July 2018 | viewed 2,240 times

  The June jobs report topped forecaster estimates, recording 213,000 new jobs, but unemployment was a different story: While expectations were 3.8 percent, the was actually…

• The Best Paying Jobs Aren’t In Silicon Valley

  Published 04 July 2018 | viewed 7,134 times

  The dream job may be in Silicon Valley with all the talk of tech jobs stealing the show in the age of artificial intelligence, blockchain…

• Canada Hits Back At U.S. With $12.5 Billion In Tariffs

  Published 02 July 2018 | viewed 1,904 times

  Canada has now hit back at U.S. President Donald Trump by issuing tariffs worth $12.5 billion on dozens of U.S. products in retaliation for American steel and…

• Trump Back Tracks On Foreign Investment Limitations

  Published 28 June 2018 | viewed 3,550 times

  Asian markets closed lower on Thursday, with China in negative territory despite Trump’s walk-back of restrictions on Chinese investment in U.S. companies yesterday. At this…

• This Payments Giant Just Teamed Up With Mastercard

  Published 26 June 2018 | viewed 2,543 times

  PayPal is on yet another tear: It just tied the knot with Google, and now it’s launching the Venmo credit card, so investors should be…

• Trump Orders “Space Force” With Zero Support

  Published 22 June 2018 | viewed 2,457 times

  Considering that driving on poor roads costs U.S. motorists around $112 billion in additional repairs every year, it’s hard to envision that historic moment when…

• Investors Scramble To Secure Property On The Korean Border

  Published 11 June 2018 | viewed 7,918 times

  Welcome to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, where real estate prices are reportedly skyrocketing as peace profiteering makes an outsized bet that…

• The Healthcare Fiasco Costing The U.S. $700B In Subsidies

  Published 29 May 2018 | viewed 2,422 times

  Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and failed. Instead, the administration’s actions bumped up healthcare insurance premiums by as much as 34 percent, and now the…