On Thursday afternoon, I dove into the StockChartsTechnicalRank (SCTR) Reports to scout out a good ETF during a mixed market (Dow and S&P 500 were down, Nasdaq was up). Two gold miner ETFs—Wisdom Tree Efficient Gold Plus Gold Miners ETF (GDMN) and iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF (RING)—caught my eye. Both had high SCTR scores of 99.9 and 99.6, ...
I’ve been around long enough to remember when Intel (INTC) was the NVIDIA of the day. Now INTC is under severe pressure, having suspended its dividend, and currently being considered for removal from the Dow 30 Industrial Average. Oh, how the mighty have fallen! With INTC having declined so much, we wonder if it is time to be bargain hunting ...
Chris Edwards Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes in the Wall Street Journal that “Trump Can Make America Healthy Again.” I agree with Kennedy that some national health trends are disturbing. The share of US adults who are obese has risen from 15 percent in the late 1970s to 42 percent today. Kennedy proposes some health system changes that I am ...
Jennifer J. Schulp American financial privacy has been in steady decline for more than 50 years. Regulatory frameworks, such as the Bank Secrecy Act and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Consolidated Audit Trail, establish government surveillance of Americans’ financial transactions. As financial services have become increasingly digitized—and as the thresholds for required reporting to the government have remained locked in time—the ...
After six weeks of recess, the House is set to fast-track approval of a slew of China-related bills that aim to counter the U.S.’s growing foe beginning on Monday. With only three weeks of work on Capitol Hill before the November election, the Republican-led lower chamber is dedicating precious floor time to bills that would root out Chinese spyware within ...
Actress and environmental activist Jane Fonda once again addressed an overseas audience, warning Democratic voters abroad that former President Donald Trump will ‘jail’ anyone who protests his policies if he’s re-elected. ‘If you are young out there abroad, you’re going to want to vote so that you have a livable future. And you’re going to want to vote so that ...
Colleen Hroncich In early 2018, I received an email from our local Christian academy with “Exciting Opportunity” in the subject line. “We are excited to introduce you to a refreshing new development in classical Christian education: the Classic Learning Test (CLT),” the email began. At the time, according to the email, the test was accepted by nearly 90 colleges and ...
Jeffrey A. Singer In a blog post earlier this year, I lamented the decision by Oregon lawmakers to roll back Measure 110, a ballot proposition that Oregon voters passed in November 2020 decriminalizing drug use and possession while expanding access to harm reduction and addiction treatment services. Measure 110 went into effect in February 2021, when COVID-19 pandemic policies and ...
Vice President Kamala Harris is running behind President Biden’s 2020 numbers among several demographic groups, a gap that could loom large in what increasingly appears to be a razor’s-edge election. ‘Harris is significantly underperforming Biden, according to most polls, with Black voters, Hispanic voters, working class voters, and young voters,’ Democratic strategist Julian Epstein told Fox News Digital. The comments ...
Iran is closer to becoming a nuclear-armed power than much of the world realizes, according to a nonpartisan research group’s new report. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) claims Iran could have a nuclear bomb before the presidential election, and suggests U.S. troops need to be deployed to the region immediately to counter such an outcome. The FDD published ...