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Next Economic Downturn May Last Forever And A Day
Next Economic Downturn May Last Forever And A Day Market Manipulation Has Created Big Problems Based on how Japan has fared over the last several decades it is difficult to see the green shoots of a global economic spring forth as a result of lower interest rates. In fact, the next economic downturn will likely […]
World Stocks At Key Support As Pandemic Fears Could Lead To Next Crash
World Stocks At Key Support As Pandemic Fears Could Lead To Next Crash The MSCI World Index captures large and mid-cap stocks in 23 developed markets, with about 1,644 constituents covering about 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization in each country. MSCI World has plunged 7.4% in nine sessions as investors dump stocks across all […]
I’ve seriously tried to believe capitalism and the planet can coexist, but I’ve lost faith
I’ve seriously tried to believe capitalism and the planet can coexist, but I’ve lost faith As the Productivity Commission confirmed this week, Australia’s economy has enjoyed uninterrupted growth for 28 years straight. Specifically, our output of goods and services last financial year grew by 2%. Economists obviously see the growth of a national economy as good news […]
The urban drivers of economic growth
The urban drivers of economic growth In the 1980s, cities were defined as the ‘growth machines’ of the economy (Molotch, 1976). Today, urban economists epitomize them as economic ‘triumphs’ (Glaeser, 2011). Cities, intended as dense and mixed forms of urban living organized in agglomerations of economic activities, are presented as the solution to many of […]
Nurturing vital diversity & resilience: Scaling out, rather than scaling-up!
Nurturing vital diversity & resilience: Scaling out, rather than scaling-up! There is an unfortunate knee-jerk response programmed into many people in leadership positions to want to ask: “How do we scale it up?” every time they hear a seemingly good idea. To a larger or lesser extent, many of the people who have this response have contracted […]
Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist
Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist To see our fate clearly, we must face these hard facts about energy, growth and governance. Part one of two. Why is this important? Well, if Greta Thunberg and followers are to inspire more than emotional release about climate change, the world needs […]
The Third Wave Of Globalization Has Ended
The Third Wave Of Globalization Has Ended The global economy is certainly at crossroads. Protectionism and nationalism, a well-matched marriage of global chaos at the moment, has threatened to end the third wave of globalization that began in the late 1980s. Capital Economics has published a compelling research note, titled “The end of globalization,” specifying […]
September Class 8 Heavy Duty Truck Orders Collapse 71%
September Class 8 Heavy Duty Truck Orders Collapse 71% Preliminary Class 8 order data for September is starting to trickle in and, like the data preceding it so far this year – it’s ugly. Class 8 orders were crushed 71% in September, reaching 12,600 units, according to Baird and Morgan Stanley. This follows a 79% plunge in August. […]
The Fed’s “Insurance” Rate Cuts Didn’t Work. Now For The Emergency Cuts
The Fed’s “Insurance” Rate Cuts Didn’t Work. Now For The Emergency Cuts Pity the guys now running the Fed. They’ve inherited an economy that requires ever-bigger infusions of new credit and ever-lower interest rates to avoid financial cardiac arrest. But with interest rates already perilously close to zero the usual leeway is no longer there. […]
More Money Pumping Won’t Make Us Richer
More Money Pumping Won’t Make Us Richer Whenever a central bank introduces easy monetary policy, as a rule this leads to an economic boom — or economic prosperity. At least this is what most commentators hold. If this is however the case then it means that an easy monetary policy can grow an economy. But […]
GROWTH: From Microorganisms to Megacities
GROWTH: From Microorganisms to Megacities Vaclav Smil’s latest book explores growth in nature and society. It examines the rules and patterns of growth in four key domains, those of the living world; human energy consumption; human artifacts; and human populations, societies and economies. The author is a passionate advocate of quantitative analysis, and thus Growth is filled […]
The Silver Series: The Start of A New Gold-Silver Cycle (Part 1 of 3)
The Silver Series: The Start of A New Gold-Silver Cycle (Part 1 of 3) The world has experienced a decade of growth fueled by record-low interest rates, a burgeoning money supply, and historic debt levels – but the good times only last so long. As the global economy slows and eventually begins to retract, can […]
Why the ECB should raise, not cut rates
Why the ECB should raise, not cut rates Negative rates are likely one of the reasons behind the lacklustre European growth. Negative rates have worked as a tool to transfer wealth from savers to the indebted governments that have abandoned all structural reforms, while these extremely low rates have also perpetuated overcapacity, incentivised the refinancing of […]
It’s Happening Again: Maersk Halts Asia-Europe Loop Amid Global Slowdown
It’s Happening Again: Maersk Halts Asia-Europe Loop Amid Global Slowdown Growth in the world continues to collapse into late summer, so much so that Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) had to “temporarily suspend” their AE2/Swan Asia to North Europe loop until mid-November, removing 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) a week from trade, reported The Loadstar. […]
