Economics and Investing:

Why The Permian Doesn’t Keep OPEC Awake At Night. While the much touted Permian basin is a fantastic formation of hydrocarbon holding rocks, the effect of this play on global oil markets is wildly overstated.

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Auto Loans: The Next Debt Bubble?. The auto-loan market has recently ballooned, but the delinquency data raises questions about how much longer these spending habits can last.

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News Bites Geopolitical Events No Longer Main Drivers Of Gold Prices

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Free Money! Banks Paid $22 Billion to Not Lend?

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