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Hurricane Maria Intensifies To “Extremely Dangerous” Cat-4 Storm Ahead Of Puerto Rico
Hurricane Maria Intensifies To “Extremely Dangerous” Cat-4 Storm Ahead Of Puerto Rico Does this look familiar? As AP reports, Hurricane Maria has intensified into a dangerous Category 4 storm as it bears down on the Caribbean. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday the storm is growing in strength as it approaches land. The […]
“Most Draconian Measures Ever”: China Expands Bitcoin Crackdown Beyond Exchange Trading
“Most Draconian Measures Ever”: China Expands Bitcoin Crackdown Beyond Exchange Trading Last week bitcoin plunged over 40% from all time highs hit as recently as three weeks ago on news that China had ordered local exchanges to halt trading in the cryptocurrency. Since then, defying naysayers yet again, bitcoin staged a remarkable comeback, rising from […]
China Orders No Market Turbulence Ahead Of Party Congress
China Orders No Market Turbulence Ahead Of Party Congress The most important event in China in five years is about to take place, and Beijing isn’t taking any chances. Ahead of the Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress – an event so massive that according to Bloomberg “nothing escapes its pull” – which is slated to start […]
Kyle Bass: China’s $40 Trillion Banking System Has “Largest Imbalances I’ve Ever Seen”
Kyle Bass: China’s $40 Trillion Banking System Has “Largest Imbalances I’ve Ever Seen” Kyle Bass’s Hayman Capital has been having a rough year thanks to its widely publicized bet against China’s currency, which has more than reversed its 2016 decline – its largest annual drop since 1994 – as the People’s Bank of China has […]
Jim Rogers Warns “If Trump Starts A Trade War With China, It Will End US Hegemony”
Jim Rogers Warns “If Trump Starts A Trade War With China, It Will End US Hegemony” Following Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s threat that the US could impose economic sanctions on China if it does not implement the new sanctions regime against North Korea: “If China doesn’t follow these sanctions, we will put additional sanctions on them […]
BIS Finds Global Debt May Be Underreported By $14 Trillion
BIS Finds Global Debt May Be Underreported By $14 Trillion In its latest annual summary published at the end of June, the IIF found that total nominal global debt had risen to a new all time high of $217 trillion, or 327% of global GDP… … largely as a result of an unprecedented increase in […]
Hurricane Maria Headed For Puerto Rico As Island Struggles To Recover From Irma
Hurricane Maria Headed For Puerto Rico As Island Struggles To Recover From Irma The National Hurricane Center has upgraded formerly tropical storm Maria to a category one hurricane Sunday as it hurtles northwest toward the Lesser Antilles. The storm, which is expected to hammer the Leeward Islands Monday with 75 mph winds, has inspired several […]
Why Quantitative Easing In The Eurozone Will Be Extended
Why Quantitative Easing In The Eurozone Will Be Extended The staff of the European Central Bank has now released the new macro-economic projections for the Eurozone and whilst the introduction sounds optimistic about an ever-increasing GDP and a relatively stable GDP growth rate, reading between the lines suggests we could see an extended Quantitative Easing […]
“They’ve Lost The Plot” – 700 Catalan Mayors Defy Spanish Government Amid Police Raids
“They’ve Lost The Plot” – 700 Catalan Mayors Defy Spanish Government Amid Police Raids “The only thing I ask of (Catalan) mayors is that they comply with the law, and as such don’t participate in an illegal referendum,” Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy urged this week, calling for a return to “rationality and legality” and promised […]
Fearful Californians Prepare For A Nuclear Attack: “A Lot Of People Will Be Killed”
Fearful Californians Prepare For A Nuclear Attack: “A Lot Of People Will Be Killed” With each passing day and each new ICBM launch from a seemingly unhinged North Korean dictator, the fears of an attack on the U.S. mainland, though faint, increasingly weigh on the hearts and minds of Americans, particularly those in California. As […]
New York City Is Within Hurricane Jose’s 5-Day “Cone Of Uncertainty”
New York City Is Within Hurricane Jose’s 5-Day “Cone Of Uncertainty” In what were perhaps the two biggest news stories of the past month, Hurricanes Irma and Harvey devastated the American south, disrupting local industry, destroying homes and critical infrastructure and dumping millions of gallons of raw sewage onto city streets – leading to the […]
Pennsylvania Will Run Out Of Cash Tonight, Leaving $860MM Of Bills Unpaid
Pennsylvania Will Run Out Of Cash Tonight, Leaving $860MM Of Bills Unpaid As equity markets spike to all new highs with each passing day, the number of fiscal crises springing up within local and state governments around the country are reaching somewhat alarming levels, even if they’re being completely ignored by investors. As Reuters notes […]
Venezuela Begins Publishing Oil Basket Price In Yuan
Venezuela Begins Publishing Oil Basket Price In Yuan Two days after the WSJ confirmed Maduro’s earlier threat that he would stop accepting US Dollars as payment for crude oil imports, Venezuela has done just that. As a reminder, and as we reported previously, in an effort to circumvent U.S. sanctions, Venezuela told oil traders that […]
Yesterday’s “Watershed” Central Bank Announcement Which Everybody Missed
Yesterday’s “Watershed” Central Bank Announcement Which Everybody Missed In what may have been a watershed moment in monetary policy – which awkwardly was missed by almost everyone as a result of the concurrent launch of the latest North Korean ballistic missile which immediately drowned out all other newsflow – late on Thursday, the Bank of […]
