Economy

Author: Michael Stern
Last Updated: 22 May 2020
One of the primary drivers of social change is technology. Granted, there have been other reasons, many of them including armed conflict, natural disasters, plagues, and pandemics amongst them, most certainly including the current COVID-19 situation. It isn’t easy to estimate the impact on various industries with what has and still is, happening. The financial […]

Author: Michael Stern
Last Updated: 20 May 2020
The price of gold continues to reach for new highs. The precious metal closed on May 18 at $1733, down slightly from Friday’s close of $1742. It is not just the month of May that has seen the price of gold go up. The commodity has traded at fresh highs every month of 2020, and […]

Author: Maria Andretti
Last Updated: 18 May 2020
To help Americans, the Federal Reserve is printing money and cutting interest rates. The question many are asking is, “will these moves have an impact on the crypto market?” Policymakers in the United States and elsewhere have plowed an unprecedented amount of new money into the economy in hopes of staving off what is looking […]

Author: Michael Stern
Last Updated: 14 May 2020
U.S. stocks ended down on Wednesday after Jay Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, warned that the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential of causing long-term damage to the economy. Powell went on to say that the country may need to “deploy additional policy measures” as an effort to avoid a period of low growth and […]