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The news cycle this year has been crazy, crazier than ever, and this week was far from an exception. The new coronavirus updates coming from the CDC, claiming we’re seeing the “biggest fall, from a health perspective,” EVER and “sleepy” Joe Biden announcing Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, were only the tip of the news iceberg.

I’m not going to talk about either of those things, at least not right now.

So far this year retail bankruptcy filings total 43, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

That’s only 5 fewer than the 48 bankruptcy filings by retailers in 2010, the worst year for retail during the Great Recession, and we’ve still got four and a half months left in 2020.

There could be dozens, or hundreds, more bankruptcies by the end of this year. I say hundreds because according to S&P Global in 2008 a whopping 441 retailers filed for bankruptcy.

Here’s what’s happening behind shuttered and reopened stores to demand, to supply chains and vendors of apparel companies; and who’s going to make it and who’s not.

When you ask for a favor, you need to consider this one detail first…

In this special broadcast, we talk about why gold is hot, how long the bull market will last, how to buy gold, what your allocation should be and the best ways to trade it.

Make this one move and you can lead a life most folks can only dream about.

What investors, analysts and retailers call the Amazon effect, I call the “Amazonation” of retail, of America, which happens to be just the tip of the “Retail Ice Age.”

Bricks and mortar retailers in the U.S. were just starting to come to grips with their own self-inflicted mistakes when Amazon.com Inc. (NasdaqGS:AMZN) shone an even brighter light on an even bigger mistake they were making.

Now, retailers are facing an even more deadly existential threat to their bricks and mortar as well as their online existence, no thanks to the coronavirus…

If there were ever a way to cheat in stocks, Warren Buffett has found it… and it’s going to make him even richer.

None of us can live completely on our own. And how we share resources is the ultimate test of liberty.

Because it’s my nature, and because it’s prudent, and because sometimes reality bites, for the last couple of months I’ve typically interspersed my positive assessment of equity markets and forecasts why they’re going higher, with negatives, citing pitfalls, white, gray, and black swans all around us.

Still, the forecasts have been bullish.

It turns out that when we let things run wild… the wild does funny things.