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Europe Questions Italy’s Ability To Contain Outbreak After Hospital Helped Spread Virus: Live Updates
Europe Questions Italy’s Ability To Contain Outbreak After Hospital Helped Spread Virus: Live Updates Update (0825ET): Bahrain has banned its citizens from traveling to Iran as it reports 9 new cases of coronavirus, raising the total cases in the tiny island kingdom to 17 in the span of 24 hours. * * * Update (0800ET): With his […]
Rabobank: Our Coronavirus Base Case Is Rapidly Shifting From “Bad” To “Ugly”
Rabobank: Our Coronavirus Base Case Is Rapidly Shifting From “Bad” To “Ugly” Regular readers will know that our four projected COVID-19 scenarios were “Bad, Worse, Ugly, and Unthinkable”. Current news today suggests risks that the base case is rapidly shifting from “Bad”, meaning only China is impacted, to “Ugly”, where both emerging Asia and developed economies see […]
“Tsunami-Like” Coronavirus Floods South Korea With New Cases; Europe Begins To Isolate Italy: Live Updates
“Tsunami-Like” Coronavirus Floods South Korea With New Cases; Europe Begins To Isolate Italy: Live Updates Summary: In a report that was 4 hours “late”, China reported an additional 409 coronavirus cases across the entire nation, and 150 additional deaths as of February 23 compared to 648 additional cases and 97 deaths on February 22; this brought […]
Can Europe’s Largest Economy Survive Without Coal?
Can Europe’s Largest Economy Survive Without Coal? One of the greatest moral dilemmas that has been creeping into the everyday activities of specialists working with coal, oil and in some cases even gas (despite its being perceived a natural bridge to a low-carbon future) could be phrased in the following way: how do you stop […]
Is Another Black Death on the Way?
IS ANOTHER BLACK DEATH ON THE WAY? Plagues from the east are nothing new. The Black Death and other epidemics arrived in Europe from China during the 1300’s, killing a large percentage of its population. Much of this pestilence came from rats that stowed away on merchant ships coming from the east. At the end […]
Europe Leads The World In Environmental Protection
Europe Leads The World In Environmental Protection Earlier this week, the European Union unveiled their European Investment Plan aimed at shifting 1 trillion euros into making the economy more environmentally friendly over the next 10 years. Statista’s Willem Rpoer reports that the investment plan is in line with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s Green Deal, which looks to make the […]
My Main Worry is Europe
My Main Worry is Europe Can it get any better than this? That’s the question investors are asking themselves after an exceptional year. Despite a slowdown in the global economy and increasing trade tensions, almost every asset class is up for the past twelve months. Mohamed El-Erian Mohamed El-Erian is convinced that the world is […]
Changes are Coming in 2020
Changes are Coming in 2020 QUESTION: I have a question, you wrote : “Those in Europe who have a position in cash, it may be better to have shares or a private sector bond or US Treasury. Given the policy in Europe of no bailouts, leaving cash sitting in your account could expose you to risk […]
Song Hongbing’s “Currency Wars” – a review
Song Hongbing’s “Currency Wars” – a review A revolutionary book from China, where it became a bestseller and is hushed up in Europe for (un)known reasons Did you know that the FED is actually a private bank and still has the right to issue dollars? Did you know that for over 200 years private bankers […]
Liquidity Crisis & the Pending European Banking Crisis
Liquidity Crisis & the Pending European Banking Crisis A lot of people have been writing in about the liquidity crisis and the banks with exposure to Deutsche Bank. This is clearly the European Banking Crisis we have been warning about. Most European (and Swiss) banks are having to overpay 30-40bps over libor. Even A+ rated banks […]
Europe: The cracks are beginning to showIs the EU experiment coming to an end? Europe considers its options
Europe: The cracks are beginning to showIs the EU experiment coming to an end? Europe considers its options THE NATO BUILD-UP 2014: The expansion of NATO in the late 20th and early 21st centuries had posed a serious strategic threat to Russia’s security. In 1999 the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO. In 2004 […]
Turkey Exposes Central Bank Incompetence
Turkey Exposes Central Bank Incompetence Last year I asked whether Turkey would be “City Zero in Global Contagion.” That question was based on the crisis unfolding in the Turkish lira which materially threatened a number of major European banks, especially those in Italy. This week highlighted something really interesting for me that, I think, sets […]
Iran Will Be a Full Nuclear Power By the End of 2020: No Return to the 2015 Agreement
IRAN WILL BE A FULL NUCLEAR POWER BY THE END OF 2020: NO RETURN TO THE 2015 AGREEMENT French President Emmanuel Macron failed to promote successfully his Iranian initiative with the US administration despite the initial blessing of his US counterpart. This failure led Iran to make a third gradual withdrawal from its JCPOA nuclear […]
Climate change underlies Europe’s rapid warming
Climate change underlies Europe’s rapid warming From the edge of the Arctic to almost the Tropic of Cancer, Europe’s rapid warming is evidenced by hotter summers − and winters. LONDON, 5 September, 2019 − Europe’s rapid warming means the world’s hottest property could now be on the continent. It has seen the strongest intensification of heat waves […]
Negative Interest Rates Are Extremely Toxic
Negative Interest Rates Are Extremely Toxic Jim Bianco, President of Bianco Research, cautions against evermore unconventional monetary policy interventions. He fears that the global slowdown is going to get worse and he spots opportunities in long-term bonds and gold. The global economy is on the brink: Europe is headed for recession, Japan as well and […]
