David Crowder

There are too many reasons among the geopolitical fires raging in the world today to have grave concerns for the future of your investment and retirement portfolios. One of these is an upcoming independence movement referendum slated to be held…

Wall Street fears a perfect storm of uncertain events all coalescing at the same time. Yet this September is bringing exactly this to the global markets. Between the looming debt brinkmanship, the German elections, and a host of important central…

Last week, it emerged that it is not only the Italians, Spanish, and Portuguese in Europe whose banks are in obvious continuing trouble. The CBR Central Bank of Russia announced late on Tuesday that it now plans to rescue its…

For the past five years, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has been stealing the proverbial thunder at the annual Central Bankers convention in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He started this tradition in 2012 by famously pledging that he would do…

With the annual Jackson Hole Central Bankers conference occurring this week, it has firmly put the spotlight back on the already diverging policies between the world’s two largest central banks, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the EU’s European Central Bank.…

This past week saw the heated rhetoric over North Korea and its so-far unstoppable nuclear missile threat rise to a whole new level not seen since the armistice that brought a close to the Korean War in 1953.  What started with…

Long time brilliant Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan has recently weighed in on the near-future of the United States’ economy. Despite the wildly rising stock markets, his prognosis is anything but good. He sees both slow to little…

Senior level U.S. officials have been claiming for many months now that war with China (probably in the South China Sea) is eventually inevitable. There are so many flash points that could kick off such a globally destabilizing conflict. For…

Only a few years ago, no one could have imagined we would be here now talking about a very real potential nuclear conflict that North Korea might actually start preemptively. Yet with last week’s July 4th testing of a fully…

This past weekend saw the relatively calm situation in war-torn Syria explode as the Iranians launched six missiles at the country, the U.S. shot down a bombing Syrian warplane, and the Russians announced that they will now target all United…