(Natural News) U.S. stocks may be able to bounce back from a dismal start later this year. But beyond that may be a different story. A Natixis survey of individual investors in 24 countries last year showed that U.S. investors had the highest projections in the group at 17.5 percent annual returns going forward. However, […]

(Natural News) When Elon Musk became the largest shareholder in Twitter last month, he immediately went to work suggesting improvements for one of the world’s largest social media platforms. One of them — getting rid of the blatant censorship of particular points of view and alternative explanations and narratives for current events — was immediately […]

(Natural News) (Op-ed) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is having a meltdown over being told by the courts that it must now procure the first monthly batch of 55,000 pages of data from Pfizer backing the company’s Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccine.” The agency had initially asked if it could get away with producing […]

(Natural News) Two of China’s largest housing developers are facing a financial disaster after missing their payment deadlines for the millions of dollars that they owe to global shareholders. The Evergrande Group and Kaisa Group Holdings are both on the brink of default with only one looking to have a better chance of making a possible reversal […]

(Natural News) Former President Donald Trump recently announced his long-awaited new social media platform, Truth Social, as well as the company he formed to launch it. Known as Trump Media & Technology Group, that company has formed a partnership with Digital World Acquisition Corp. to create the platform, which is expected to be hosted by RightForge, a […]

(Natural News) A few days ago, the Chinese government halted all trading of Evergrande (HKG:03333) stock, claiming that the move is necessary in order to “restructure” the failing developer. Massive overleveraging resulted in a partial collapse of the stock before the government quickly intervened to “save” it, effectively kicking the can down the road and […]

(Natural News) Online goods have seen a rise in prices for an unprecedented 15 months as inflation hits categories such as pet products, nonprescription drugs, groceries, furniture and flower arrangements, according to reports. The growth in digital prices across the industry means that e-commerce transactions are set to account for roughly $1 of every $5 […]

(Natural News) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome J. Powell says that he supports “tapering” toward the end of the year, adding that interest rate hikes are a long way off. By tapering, he means that the central bank should reduce its monthly purchases of bonds and slow down the monthly increase in the quantity of money. […]

(Natural News) In today’s America, housing is just another commodity to be traded by wealthy investors at the expense of the working classes that can no longer afford to live because of it. For years, the problem was Chinese investors with gobs of fiat buying up all the property. Now, it is cash-saturated pension funds […]

(Natural News) When President Richard Nixon normalized relations with China — at the ultimate expense of Taiwan — in the early 1970s, over the next several decades American corporations increasingly saw the populous Asian giant as a piggy bank. Opening markets to more than a billion people was just too much to pass up, so […]