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How Does the U.S. Power Grid Work?

With over 160,000 miles of transmission lines, the U.S. power grid is designed to handle natural and man-made disasters, as […]

The Most Important Economic Chart

By Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, If you must know only one fact about the U.S. economy, it should be […]

Russia Examines Its Options for Responding to Ukraine

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The fall of the Ukrainian government and its replacement with one that appears to be oriented […]

Like Houdini, the Markets Escape Again and Again

By Stephen C. Sexauer, Allianz Global Investors, The Hungarians who fled Budapest in the 1930s have changed the world. This […]

America’s 10 most dangerous infrastructure problems

Pressing problems All things being equal, it would be better for the country to have less debt. Nobody seriously disputes […]

Seth Klarman 2013 Letter to Investors: The Truman Show

From the Baupost Group’s 2013 shareholder letter by Seth Klarman, Klarman has recently given back 4 billion to investors due […]

America’s new opportunity cities

When the going gets tough, Americans move around. That’s been the pattern, at least, for much of the nation’s history, […]

Forecast 2014: The CAPEs of Hope

By John Mauldin, Millennium Wave Advisors The Second Most Expensive Stock Market in the World Who’s Got Your Risk? Join […]

George Soros Doubles Down on Bearish Bet

By Steven Rossolillo, WSJ, George Soros built a big bet at the end of last year that the stock market […]

Marijuana Stocks on a High Streak

If you have been watching the news about Colorado and the sale of legal marijuana, you would have seen the […]