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The reclusive nation of North Korea has further distanced itself from the world in recent months. Its pursuit of nuclear technology, in violation of the opposing international community, it’s direct threats of attack against the South and of a nuclear attack against the United States, and it’s most recent declaration …

Up until now, not many people had ever heard of Nick D’Aloisio, a 17-year-old school-aged teenager from the U.K. But now, he’s seemingly all over the news radar, and for ample good reason, too. Over the past week, Aloisio completed a deal that nobody ever saw coming. He sold his …

A stunning report that was issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has stated that China is on course to overtake the U.S. economy a lot sooner than we had thought: by the year 2016. Last year, the economy in China grew by a whopping 7.8 percent. And …

With all of this talk of a recession, a flat lined economy and a bust real estate market, notwithstanding the pending sequester budget cuts and major U.S. cities like Detroit filing for bankruptcy protection, the U.S. economy is not nearly as hard hit as one might imagine. Paramount to this …

D.C., Virginia and Maryland are more frustrated by the sequester budget cuts than Detroit is, rest assured. That’s because these three states combined earn 10 percent of their economy from defense spending annually. This is according to a late February report by Mark Vitner and Michael Brown, both Wells Fargo …

President Obama recently requested $2 billion from congress to fund the pursuit of technologies that could free the U.S. from the stranglehold of foreign oil. In his most recent energy proposal, dubbed “Energy Security Trust,” the president proposed that we fund this program from royalties from gas and oil drilling …

The U.S. Foundation for Liberty, an organization that educates Americans on the horrors and atrocities that are being committed by Iran against her people, hosted an event in Dallas recently to bring awareness to this region of the country. Prominent Dallas attorney, was pleased to open his home up to …

Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott, had some wonderful news to deliver this Monday morning as investors eagerly watched the index and monitored their gains and losses, in lieu of a virtually record breaking day in the stock market. “The Dow is what gets all the news …

While naysayers would still claim we are in the throes of a lasting recession, one that’s been offset again by the recent federal budget cuts, and while some might argue that we are not out of the thick just yet, the facts paint a rather different, prettier picture. For example, …

The Roseland, New Jersey-based ADP Research Institute today unveiled its numbers for total job gains in the nation for last year, and they actually look pretty good. According to ADP, more than 198,000 were added in 2012 in the U.S. In conjunction with that report, a recent report that was …

Welcome to the American economic outlook, where if you can do the one-two shuffle, you are going to be one fabulous dancer. And today was just such a day for such astounding rebounds, which make one think that there have to be some NBA stars hitting hoops in the Dow …

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder today declared what was ultimately the inevitable: Detroit is in a state of fiscal emergency due to the sweeping federal budget cuts that took effect after congress and the White House failed to amend them before today’s deadline. It set the stage for what could potentially …

If you are expecting our healthy trend of the economic recovery to continue tit for tat on this spat of regeneration, hold on to your horses. While the recovery is speeding along at a very rapid pace – all things considered, the housing fallout was the worst since the Great …

With the budget gavel upended and ready to be banged on down to officially stamp the 2013 budget, President Obama is asking that congress help him with just a “just a little bit of compromise.” The reason being is that the president and congress are facing sweeping budgets that will …

As we gallantly wrap up another awesome week over here at Invest-Smart.org, we are pleased to launch our first official YouTube teaser video. Our goal is to bring you smart financial news and helpful articles that can empower you to succeed, no matter what path life takes you down. Our …