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The World Is Quietly Decoupling From the U.S. – And No One Is Paying Attention
The World Is Quietly Decoupling From the U.S. – And No One Is Paying Attention Blind faith in the U.S. dollar is perhaps one of the most crippling disabilities economists have in gauging our economic future. Historically speaking, fiat currencies are essentially animals with very short lives, and world reserve currencies are even more […]
Americans are Stuck in Abusive Relationships with Power
Americans are Stuck in Abusive Relationships with Power And we recently discovered, if it was not known before, that no amount of power can withstand the hatred of the many. – Marcus Tullius Cicero Americans are brought up to believe all sorts of myths about the country we call home. We’re told our economy is a […]
QE Party Is Drying Up, Even at the Bank of Japan
QE Party Is Drying Up, Even at the Bank of Japan Despite repeated speeches to the contrary. As of September 30, total assets on the Bank of Japan’s elephantine balance sheet dropped by ¥5.4 trillion ($33 billion) from a month earlier, to ¥537 trillion ($4.87 trillion). It was the fourth month-over-month decline in a series […]
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism In 2015, India’s internal intelligence agency wrote a report that depicted various campaigners and groups as working against the national interest. The report singled out environmental activists and NGOs that had been protesting against state-corporate policies. Those largely undemocratic and unconstitutional policies were endangering rivers, forests and local ecologies, destroying […]
We Should Ditch GDP as a Measure of Economic Activity
WE SHOULD DITCH GDP AS A MEASURE OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY This article exposes the false economic concepts behind GDP, which is only the visible tip of a large iceberg of economic deceit. Describing an increase in GDP as economic growth owes its meagre validity to imprecise definition. An economy does not grow, only the quantity […]
IMF Slashes US Growth Outlook, Blames Rates & Trade; Sees Venezuelan Inflation 10-Million-Percent
IMF Slashes US Growth Outlook, Blames Rates & Trade; Sees Venezuelan Inflation 10-Million-Percent Confirming Director Lagarde’s warning that “clouds on the horizon have materialized,” The International Monetary Fund is downgrading its outlook for the world economy, citing rising interest rates and growing tensions over trade. The IMF said Monday that the global economy will grow […]
The crash is coming
The crash is coming Fred Hickey, editor of the influential investment newsletter «The High-Tech Strategist», compares today’s state of the stock market with the peak of the dotcom bubble in the year 2000 and spots bright opportunities in the gold sector. (Bild: Charlotte Wilson/Getty Images) Few investors have a deeper understanding of the tech sector […]
How Dangerous is the Month of October?
How Dangerous is the Month of October? A Month with a Bad Reputation A certain degree of nervousness tends to suffuse global financial markets when the month of October approaches. The memories of sharp slumps that happened in this month in the past – often wiping out the profits of an entire year in a […]
Beijing Eases Policy, Yuan Slides Towards 10-Year Low
Beijing Eases Policy, Yuan Slides Towards 10-Year Low On Sunday, the Bank of China cut the level of cash that banks must hold as reserves. The Yuan continued its slide. Reuters reports China Set to Reopen After Beijing Eases Policy. Shares in Asia stumbled in early trade on Monday as investors waited with bated breath […]
Morgan Stanley: “We Have Hit The Tipping Point”
Morgan Stanley: “We Have Hit The Tipping Point” Having been one of the most bearish voices on Wall Street for a good part of 2018, with downgrades of small caps and tech stocks earlier this summer and one month ago going so far as to call the peak of both Treasurys (in September) and Stocks […]
Louis Gave On Corporate Debt And The Next Liquidity Crisis
Louis Gave On Corporate Debt And The Next Liquidity Crisis This has been a good year for the stock market so far, at least in the U.S., yet many investors are wondering when the other shoe will drop. We spoke with Louis-Vincent Gave, founding partner and CEO at Gavekal Research, about the explosion in near […]
Trader: Italy’s Situation Is Truly Unprecedented
Trader: Italy’s Situation Is Truly Unprecedented If Italy is going to avoid a full-blown euro zone debt crisis that’s capable of causing turmoil in global financial markets, communication will be key. Much of the investor complacency toward the threat from Italy’s debt crisis is the fallacy that worse scenarios have been survived elsewhere before. Let’s […]
Ron Paul Is Warning That A 50% Stock Market Decline Is Coming – And That There Is No Way To Stop It
Ron Paul Is Warning That A 50% Stock Market Decline Is Coming – And That There Is No Way To Stop It Is Ron Paul about to be proven right once again? For a very long time, Ron Paul has been one of my political heroes. His willingness to stand up for true constitutional values […]
