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These people lost one-third of their savings in a single week (not in crypto)
These people lost one-third of their savings in a single week (not in crypto) Let me say up front– I know I’ve been a bit quiet lately. It happens every year around this time when I hold the annual Liberty and Entrepreneurship Camp that I’ve been sponsoring for the past nine years. The event is […]
Prepare for a Chinese Maxi-devaluation
Prepare for a Chinese Maxi-devaluation The news is being dominated by breathless headlines about the new trade war between the U.S. and China. But this trade war has been brewing for years and came as no surprise to readers of my newsletter, Project Prophesy. In fact, the new trade war is simply a continuation of […]
Has the PBoC deliberately weakened CNY as part of the trade war?
Has the PBoC deliberately weakened CNY as part of the trade war? It has been another trade war week, as the market has been looking for clues on the Chinese retaliation measures against the Trump tariffs that are planned to go live on 6 July. Global trade momentum started to weaken even before the trade […]
China Has Quietly Implemented A 6% Across The Board ‘Tariff’ On All US Imports
China Has Quietly Implemented A 6% Across The Board ‘Tariff’ On All US Imports Trump and Xi have spent much of the last few weeks tossing tariff grenades across the Pacific Ocean as retaliatory retaliations grow ever stronger in rhetoric and potential escalations. Then this week, Trump seemed to back away from his most serious […]
Pakistan Panic: 3rd Currency Devaluation In 2018 Sends Sovereign Risk Soaring Above Argentina, Ukraine
Pakistan Panic: 3rd Currency Devaluation In 2018 Sends Sovereign Risk Soaring Above Argentina, Ukraine While many of the world’s eyes are on the carnage in Argentina as EM collapses, Pakistan has quietly devalued the Rupee three times this year, amid tumbling reserves which has sparked enough investor anxiety to send CDS spiking. Pakistan is now […]
Learning from America’s Forgotten Default
Bettmann/Getty Images Learning from America’s Forgotten Default One of the most pervasive myths about the United States is that the federal government has never defaulted on its debts. There’s just one problem: it’s not true, and while few people remember the “gold clause cases” of the 1930s, that episode holds valuable lessons for leaders today. […]
Everything You Need to Know About Inflation
Everything You Need to Know About Inflation It’s been said that when the U.S. sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold. Inflation by overall annual average has been below target for some years now, since 2012 to be exact. The Fed usually seeks a 2% inflation as a comfort zone. Granted, it’s only […]
China Eyes Yuan Devaluation in Trade Dispute
China Eyes Yuan Devaluation in Trade Dispute Finally, we have a story that makes retaliatory sense vs. the widely believed “nuclear” treasury dumping theory. The widely-circulated “nuclear” theory suggests China would dump US treasuries in a trade war with the US. That theory never made any sense. Such a move would tend to strengthen the […]
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. —Ernest Hemingway Military spending is the second largest item in the US federal budget after […]
Venezuela Knocks Three Zeros Off Its Currency to Halt Hyperinflation
Venezuela Knocks Three Zeros Off Its Currency to Halt Hyperinflation Redenomination is Venezuela’s sorry story of the day. It won’t work. In a worthless attempt to halt hyperinflation, Venezuela Deletes Three Zeros From Its Failing Currency. Socialist Venezuela is going through a crisis that has left people struggling to pay for food and find medicines. […]
The Central Bank Bubble: It Will Be Ugly
The Central Bank Bubble: It Will Be Ugly 21 Mar The global economy has been living through a period of central bank insanity, thanks to a little-understood expansion strategy known as quantitative easing, which has destroyed main-street and benefitted wall street. Central Banks over the last decade simply created credit out of thin air. Snap […]
How Much Longer Can We Get Away With It?
How Much Longer Can We Get Away With It? Alas, fakery isn’t actually a solution to fiscal/financial crisis.. This chart of “debt securities and loans”–i.e. total debt in the U.S. economy–is also a chart of the creation and distribution of new money, as the issuance of new debt is the mechanism in our financial system for […]
Albert Edwards: “Trump Will Soon Turn His Protectionist Fire On Germany. That Will Be Messy”
Albert Edwards: “Trump Will Soon Turn His Protectionist Fire On Germany. That Will Be Messy” We were wondering how long before one of our favorite “perma-skeptics”, Socgen’s Albert Edwards, would chime in on the global trade war that broke out in the past few weeks, especially since trade protectionism, tariffs and subsidies are the opposite […]
