Gold bulls weathered rising U.S. interest rates, record-high equity markets and an improving global economy to push the metal to its best year since 2010. Bullion futures on the Comex in New York jumped 13 percent in 2017 for a second straight annual gain. Other measures of the metal also defied the
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The Department of Statistics (DoS) recently released the 2014 social accounting matrix (SAM). It revealed some intriguing facts and patterns about the structure of the economy. The SAM is a methodology of decomposing the economic activities in a given year into a matrix that shows transactions and
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Everyone knows somebody who refuses to transact in anything but cash. They don't understand transacting without a physical medium; they enjoy the feeling of control and security that cash brings, as opposed to numbers changing on their phone screens …
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President Donald Trump said he would insist legislation extending deportation protection to those brought to the U.S. illegally as children include funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump also said he would demand an end to a program that allows immigrants to sponsor family members to
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FILE – This March 1, 2017, file photo shows an exterior view of the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. A group led by Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank has acquired a major stake in Uber.
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