Personal Finance Is Complicated

News Brief: CDC Reports Dramatic Increase in Whooping Cough; 3 Takeaways From Harris’s Fox News Interview; Biden Cancels $4.7 Billion in Loans

Finance Minister Proposes 60 Percent Interest Rate Remain for Pawn Loans

How One Bad Financial Mistake Cost Me 7 Years Retiring Early, Guaranteed You’re Making It Now

Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

Seniors Don’t Want to Retire Anymore. Here’s Why and How to Help

The 8 Plots All Movies Are Based On

Expensive Markets Are More Dangerous Than You Think

Keeping Finances in Check During the Holidays

US Economy Faces Challenges After Midterms

Italy: Europe’s Populist Fantasyland

Sudden Stop: The Risk of an Emerging Markets Crisis

Why China Has Already Lost the Trade War

Are Central Banks Nationalizing the Economy?

Why the Critics of the Tax Reform Are Wrong

Is Bitcoin Just a Brilliant Wealth Redistribution Scheme?

The Bear Market in Commodities

Books Offering Panaceas for Our Times, and a Look Back at History

Diamond Geysers: Rule-Breaking Iceland Completes Its Miracle Economic Escape

Thai Government Says It’s Not Ignoring Shrimp Sheds Slavery

China’s ‘Zombie Enterprises’ Are Tumors Plaguing the Economy

Japan Might Overtake China as World’s No. 2 Economy—Gordon Chang

China’s Finance Minister Says Country’s Chance of Economic Failure Worse Than 50-50

42.9 Million Americans Have Unpaid Medical Bills

Failed GMO Promises Have Caused Nearly 300,000 Suicides in India Alone

Argentina Default Flashes Warning to Emerging Markets

My Take on What the Chinese Govt Micro-Stimulus Scheme Reveals

NY Counterfeits: The True Cost

China Briefs—Nov 16 to Nov 19

Gao Zhisheng’s Open Letter to the United States Congress