Economics and Investing:

The market marches on to oblivion, ignoring the warning signs: Stupid Is As Stupid Does

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Permian Pipeline Bottleneck Forces Steep Discounts. Oil production in the Permian Basin has been rising rapidly, and now the pipeline capacity in the region is struggling to keep up, forcing producers to provide discounts.

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Gold Price Forecast: Getting A Read Of The Next Quarter

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Record $10 Trillion Paper Gold Trading Market Continues To Depress Price

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The Next Subprime Crisis Is Here: 12 Signs That A Day Of Reckoning Has Arrived For The U.S. Auto Industry Excerpt: “In 2008, subprime mortgages almost single-handedly took down the entire financial system, and now a new subprime crisis is here. In recent years, the auto industry has been able to boost sales by aggressively pushing people into auto loans that they cannot afford. In particular, auto loans made to consumers with subprime credit have been accounting for an increasingly larger percentage of the market.”

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