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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 […]
Suddenly, Western “Regime” Changes Keep Failing
Suddenly, Western “Regime” Changes Keep Failing It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If the country did not collapse within months or just […]
Why The Next ECB Stimulus Plan May Fail
Why The Next ECB Stimulus Plan May Fail In June 2014 I wrote an article called Draghi’s Plan does not fix Europe. In that article, I explained that the structural challenges of the eurozone -high government spending, excessive tax wedge, lack of technology leadership and demographics- were not going to be solved by a round of […]
Will Europe Ever Shake Its Dependence On Russian Energy?
Will Europe Ever Shake Its Dependence On Russian Energy? Much of the current discourse over Europe’s economic “independence” has revolved around its increasingly-tense relationship with the Trump administration over foreign policy issues such as trade and Iran. This focus has sidelined another important development, however: portions of the European energy industry—a major pillar of the […]
