Lack of agricultural raw materials and supplies, energy shortages and housing shortages. A whole generation of “entitled” Westerners will learn what it means to live in poor conditions where there is a lack of most things, warns the world’s largest fund manager Blackrock. Chairman Rob Kapito says that dramatic inflation will be so high that major effects are to be expected in the... 

As the real estate market continues to break records, a cabal of institutional investors has been tossing gasoline on the fire – buying up properties hand-over-fist as middle-American renters watch their dreams of home ownership fade at the hands of pension funds and other financial behemoths. “You now have permanent capital competing with a young couple trying to buy a house,” according...