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World’s Largest Container-Shipper Warns Global Trade Is Slowing Down
World’s Largest Container-Shipper Warns Global Trade Is Slowing Down While it will hardly come as a surprise to many, especially those who have followed the historic collapse of the Baltic Dry index to levels which, all else equal, signify a global depression of epic proportions… … and which led South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s […]
Why Does Fiat Money Seemingly Work?
Why Does Fiat Money Seemingly Work? Introducing Money Imagine three men living on a small island. Toni is mining the local salt mine, and apart from him there are Pete the fisherman and Tom the apple grower and their families. They have a barter trading system set up: Toni exchanges his salt for Pete’s fishes […]
Russia And China’s Growing Energy Relationship
Russia And China’s Growing Energy Relationship Russia’s economic freefall and isolation from the West has made it increasingly eager to build its relationship with China, even at the cost of lost leverage with Beijing. But new economic data from China shows that Russia has succeeded in capturing a larger share of the massive – and […]
Europe Gets Cold Feet on “TTIP,” Americans Should Too, But Obama Needs it for his Legacy
Europe Gets Cold Feet on “TTIP,” Americans Should Too, But Obama Needs it for his Legacy As almost always, the U.S. government and European Commission are on the same page, reading from the same script. This year they have one overriding goal in common: to create the world’s biggest “free” trade area by passing the […]
Here’s Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is Just Plain Wrong
Here’s Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is Just Plain Wrong Republicans who now run Congress say they want to cooperate with President Obama, and point to the administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, as the model. The only problem is the TPP would be a disaster. If you haven’t heard much about the TPP, that’s part of the […]
Canada Posts Trade Deficit In November, And It Turns We Had One In October, Too
Canada Posts Trade Deficit In November, And It Turns We Had One In October, Too OTTAWA – Canada had a larger-than-expected trade deficit in November as a drop in crude oil and bitumen led a broad decline in exports. Statistics Canada said Wednesday that the country posted a merchandise trade deficit of $644 million in […]
Empire v Mere State | Armstrong Economics
Empire v Mere State | Armstrong Economics. QUESTION: Marty, your insight into the failure of Austrian and Keynesian economics was really eye opening. At your conference you said that Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand applied internationally not just domestically. I believe I have reached the level of understanding you have been teaching us. It is indeed global […]
Australia, China deepen ties with landmark free trade deal | Reuters
Australia, China deepen ties with landmark free trade deal | Reuters. (Reuters) – China and Australia on Monday sealed a landmark free trade agreement more than a decade in the making, significantly expanding ties between the world’s second largest economy and one of Washington’s closest allies in Asia. The deal, which Australia called the best […]
Not Just The Franc Showing Euro Concerns | Alhambra Investment Partners – We Are Different.
Not Just The Franc Showing Euro Concerns | Alhambra Investment Partners – We Are Different.. With Europe reporting GDP, reactions have been somewhat varied. In some places, it was taken as not as bad as feared, while others were downright cheered by a lack of total collapse, as if that is now the standard for […]
Local Economies on the Table | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Local Economies on the Table | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Communities across the United States and Europe are working to transform local economic systems so that they are more sustainable and equitable. Programs that support the production of nutritious and culturally appropriate food by local farmers and locally sourced renewable energy, construction and […]
Russia, China Sign Second Mega-Gas Deal: Beijing Becomes Largest Buyer Of Russian Gas | Zero Hedge
Russia, China Sign Second Mega-Gas Deal: Beijing Becomes Largest Buyer Of Russian Gas | Zero Hedge. As we previewed on Friday, when we reported that “Russia Nears Completion Of Second “Holy Grail” Gas Deal With China“, moments ago during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum taking place this weekend in Beijing, Russia and China signed 17 […]
Russia Nears Completion Of Second “Holy Grail” Gas Deal With China | Zero Hedge
Russia Nears Completion Of Second "Holy Grail" Gas Deal With China | Zero Hedge. Six months ago, something few had expected would take place in 2014, or even in the coming years, happened: under Western pressure and out of a desire to diversify away from an increasingly hostile European market, Russia signed the so-called “Holy […]
Global finance and the privatization of rural livelihoods | ROAR Magazine
Global finance and the privatization of rural livelihoods | ROAR Magazine. A big piece of news for food politics enthusiasts this summer was India’s veto over a proposed agreement — to be concluded within the legal framework of the World Trade Organization — on ‘trade facilitation measures’. The agreement was meant to regulate a number […]
How Japanese Hyperinflation Starts (In 1 Chart) | Zero Hedge
How Japanese Hyperinflation Starts (In 1 Chart) | Zero Hedge. The Japanese Yen’s real effective exchange rate (REER) has collapsed to the weakest since 1982, according to Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities. Simply put, REER is a trade-weighted measure of Yen strength (or weakness) against, in this case, 59 trading partners; and as the nation posts […]
