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Debt Crisis Central: Let’s Not Forget About America
Debt Crisis Central: Let’s Not Forget About America As the situation in Puerto Rico has recently revealed, Greece is not alone. The world is filled with debt laden nations, many of which may never be able to pay down their liabilities. All told, the world is $200 trillion in debt, of which $57 trillion was accumulated in the past […]
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 Curse Of The Euro: Money Corrupted, Democracy Busted
The Curse Of The Euro: Money Corrupted, Democracy Busted The preposterous Gong Show in Brussels over the weekend was the financial “Ben Tre” moment for the Euro and ECB. That is, it was the moment when the Germans—–imitating the American military on that ghastly morning in February 1968——set fire to the Eurozone in order to save it. Some day history will […]
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 […]
When a Black Swan Flies Over Wall Street’s House of Cards
When a Black Swan Flies Over Wall Street’s House of Cards A black swan is Wall Street lexicon for an unpredicted event. The author of that concept, Nassim Taleb, opines that most of the major moves in stock market history originated as black swan events coming out of nowhere, with a random, stochastic disorderliness that […]
Why Greece Is The Precursor To The Next Global Debt Crisis
Why Greece Is The Precursor To The Next Global Debt Crisis The Eurozone fantasy will be one of the early casualties The one undeniable truth about the debt drama in Greece is that each of the conventional narratives—financial, political and historical—has some claim of legitimacy. For example, spendthrift Greeks shunned fiscal discipline: here’s an account […]
The Big Picture
The Big Picture The past four years or so have been extremely frustrating for investors like me who have structured their portfolios around the belief that the current experiments in central bank stimulus, the anti-business drift in Washington, and America’s mediocre economy and unresolved debt issues would push down the value of the dollar, push up […]
Canada’s economy isn’t in recession, despite report, Joe Oliver says
Canada’s economy isn’t in recession, despite report, Joe Oliver says Private sector economists warn of possibility of recession this year Despite an economy that’s shrunk every month for which we have data this year, the federal finance minister says Canada is not in a recession and is poised for growth later in 2015. At an event […]
Europe is blowing itself apart over Greece – and nobody seems able to stop it
Europe is blowing itself apart over Greece – and nobody seems able to stop it Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras never expected to win Sunday’s referendum. He is now trapped and hurtling towards Grexit Like a tragedy from Euripides, the long struggle between Greece and Europe’s creditor powers is reaching a cataclysmic end that nobody planned, […]
Bearish News For Oil Growing By The Day
Bearish News For Oil Growing By The Day Oil hit its lowest point in two months on July 1, falling on a combination of market turmoil and bearish oil figures. WTI dipped below $57 and Brent dropped to around $62 per barrel, breaking out of a narrow range within which the two benchmarks have been […]
Bond Insurers Crash, Hit by Puerto Rico’s Default Shrapnel
Bond Insurers Crash, Hit by Puerto Rico’s Default Shrapnel On Monday, Puerto Rico’s government released a report that gave the municipal bond market the willies. Written by former World Bank and IMF economists, it vivisects Puerto Rico’s finances, lays out the basic fact that the nearly $73 billion in bonds that the US commonwealth has […]
THE GREAT TPP DEATHTRAP FOR INDIA, CHINA & 10 OTHER MEMBER-NATIONS
The Great TPP Deathtrap for India, China & 10 Other Member-Nations The Terms of Destruction. The Clues are all there in Obamatrade and Obamacare. The truth emerges out of the shadows of secrecy… Let’s start here. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade treaty, coming down the homestretch toward ratification, involving 12 nations which account for […]
There’s Something Wrong With The World Today and It’s 1995
There’s Something Wrong With The World Today and It’s 1995 There weren’t any surprises in the “final” GDP update for Q1. Going back to -0.2%, the same interpretations still apply, especially and including the inventory contribution. Economists and policymakers want to talk particularly about how Q1 is prone to “residual seasonality” but that is missing […]
How Venture Capitalists Came to Rule the World
How Venture Capitalists Came to Rule the World Jobless Growth and the Lottery Economy Before the gale-force hurricane of Reaganomics swept through the United States in the 1980s, America very briefly entertained the adoption of a deliberate industrial policy. As in South Korea and certain European nations, the U.S. government would pick economic winners and […]
Bank Of America Begins 66-Day Countdown Until The Terrible Ghost Of 1937 Returns
Bank Of America Begins 66-Day Countdown Until The Terrible Ghost Of 1937 Returns In 66 trading days on September 17, 2015, the Federal Reserve will, according to Bank of America, hike rates for the first time since 2006, which according to BofA will “end the era of excess liquidity.” We disagree entirely, but let’s hear […]
