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Calgary Office Market Gets Crushed. Oil, China Blamed
Calgary Office Market Gets Crushed. Oil, China Blamed The office vacancy rate in downtown Calgary, the epicenter of the Canadian oil bust, could hit the vertigo-inducing level of 17.5% by the end of 2018, a new report by commercial real-estate firm Colliers International warned – and added some ominous clouds: “Given the current global macro […]
Greece’s Lesson For Russia
Greece’s Lesson For Russia “Greece’s debt can now only be made sustainable through debt relief measures that go far beyond what Europe has been willing to consider so far.” — International Monetary Fund Greece’s lesson for Russia, and for China and Iran, is to avoid all financial relationships with the West. The West simply cannot […]
The China Syndrome
The China Syndrome Getting Ugly I am sure that you have all been watching the meltdown in the Chinese stock markets. I posted a blog (in the China Ad Nauseam section) on May 6 about the Chinese stock market, finishing up with the statement that “this is going to get really ugly.” It looks like the ugliness is here. I claim […]
Balance Of Superpowers: Comparing The US And Chinese Armed Forces
Balance Of Superpowers: Comparing The US And Chinese Armed Forces Whether China is busy championing trade deals outside of the US dollar, buying up some of the world’s biggest companies, taking over foreign housing markets, or building massive networks of nuclear or wind power grids, it is clear that the country is a world power […]
Bank of Canada Sees Global Economy, Freaks Out, Cuts Rate, Warns of Financial Stability Risks, Loonie Plunges
Bank of Canada Sees Global Economy, Freaks Out, Cuts Rate, Warns of Financial Stability Risks, Loonie Plunges The Bank of Canada took a good look at the Canadian economy, saw it was sinking into the mire, glanced at the collapsed prices of commodities, particularly oil, saw how they were wreaking havoc in Canada, and then […]
China is trying to centrally plan its way out of a black hole
China is trying to centrally plan its way out of a black hole It’s here in southwestern China’s postcard-perfect Yunnan province that the mighty Mekong River rises. From its source in a nearby mountain range, the river proceeds south, cutting its way across Southeast Asia’s fertile lands through Burma, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The […]
Chinese Stock Plunge Resumes With 1200 Stocks Halted Limit Down; Yellen, Greek Elections On Deck
Chinese Stock Plunge Resumes With 1200 Stocks Halted Limit Down; Yellen, Greek Elections On Deck Just when the Chinese plunge protection team (and “arrest shortie” task force) seemed to be finally getting “malicious selling” under control, first we saw a crack yesterday when the composite broke the surge of the past three days as a […]
Diminishing Returns on Central-Planning Policy Extremes = 2016 Crash
Diminishing Returns on Central-Planning Policy Extremes = 2016 Crash The problem with these policy extremes is that they are so painfully visibly acts of central-planning desperation. It is perhaps fitting that I am posting a call for a financial crisis that fails to respond to the usual central-planning manipulations on Bastille Day. There are two main lessons […]
World Powers Reach Landmark Nuclear Deal With Iran, Oil Slides – Full Deal Text
World Powers Reach Landmark Nuclear Deal With Iran, Oil Slides – Full Deal Text It is only fitting that almost exactly 24 hours after the Greek “pre-deal”, which may and will end up crashing and burning in very short notice, another long expected “deal”, one which has been about a decade in the making, was […]
How to Prepare for a Cyber Attack
How to Prepare for a Cyber Attack There is a lot of debate on whether Wednesday’s computer issues that shut down the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal, and United Airlines were just a very strange coincidence (very strange) or a deliberate cyber attack. This isn’t the first possible cyber attack on the United […]
Top 5 Oil Producing Countries Could See Production Peak This Year
Top 5 Oil Producing Countries Could See Production Peak This Year The EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook came out a few days ago. That is where they try to guess the future production and price for oil, for the USA as well as the world. As of late they seem to be getting a little timid with their […]
Chinese stocks: When mispricing becomes more important than pricing
Chinese stocks: When mispricing becomes more important than pricing Defenders of the free market faith tell us that price conveys a great deal of information, enough that you can base an entire economic system on it without any central planning or coordination whatsoever. Whether extreme devotion to this principle is wise may not be so […]
Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World
Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015,” June 2015. http://news.usni.org/2015/07/02/document-2015-u-s-national-military-strategy The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that […]
This Week In Energy: Oil Prices Hinge On Two Financial Crises
This Week In Energy: Oil Prices Hinge On Two Financial Crises It has been an eventful week. Two major financial crises are destroying the bullish case for oil. The Greek crisis continues, although there are signs that some semblance of a solution is at hand. Europe had demanded a new proposal and set this Sunday […]
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising There’s been a virtual blackout of news from this year’s seventh annual BRICS summit in Ufa, Russia. None of the mainstream media organizations are covering the meetings or making any attempt to explain what’s going on. As a result, the American people remain largely in the dark about a powerful coalition […]
