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Bill Gross: “Our Financial System Is A Truckload Of Nitroglycerin On A Bumpy Road”
Bill Gross: “Our Financial System Is A Truckload Of Nitroglycerin On A Bumpy Road” Courtesy of Bill Gross’ latest monthly letter “Show Me The Money“, here are some perspectives on the only thing that has kept the global economy going since the financial crisis: debt, and lost of it. in 2017, the global economy has […]
2017: The Year When the World Economy Starts Coming Apart
2017: The Year When the World Economy Starts Coming Apart Some people would argue that 2016 was the year that the world economy started to come apart, with the passage of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Whether or not the “coming apart” process started in 2016, in my opinion we are going to see […]
World Economies in Trouble: Middle East Oil Exports Lower Than 40 Years Ago
WORLD ECONOMIES IN TROUBLE: Middle East Oil Exports Lower Than 40 Years Ago Yes, it’s true. Middle East net oil exports are less than they were 40 years ago. How could this be? Just yesterday, Zerohedge released a news story stating that OPEC oil production reached a new record high of 34.19 million barrels per day. […]
China Moves Forward with Its De-Dollarization Strategy
China Moves Forward with Its De-Dollarization Strategy The world monetary order is changing. Slowly but steadily, global trade and currency markets are becoming less dollar-centric. Formerly marginal currencies such as the Chinese yuan now stand to become serious competitors to U.S. dollar dominance. Could gold also begin to emerge as a leading currency in world […]
Thermodynamic Oil Collapse Interview: Why The Global Economy Will Disintegrate Rapidly
Thermodynamic Oil Collapse Interview: Why The Global Economy Will Disintegrate Rapidly The world is heading towards a rapid disintegration of its economic and financial system due to a “Thermodynamic oil collapse.” I spoke with Dr. Louis Arnoux of nGeni, about the details of the thermodynamics of oil depletion and its impact on the global economy. Unfortunately, […]
The Noose Is Tightening Quickly On The Global Economy
The Noose Is Tightening Quickly On The Global Economy The investment world has an embarrassingly short attention span. But frankly, it is a necessity. If daytraders, hedge funds and other horses in the carousel actually had to look beyond the next week of market activity or study back on market history in comparison to today, […]
How Much Longer Will Investors Trust the Central Banks?
How Much Longer Will Investors Trust the Central Banks? There is no simple, painless solution. The world has to reduce debt, shrink the financial part of the economy, and change the destructive incentive structures in finance. Individuals in developed countries have to save more and spend less. Companies have to go back to real engineering. […]
5 Reasons Why Austrian Economics Is Better than the Mainstream
5 Reasons Why Austrian Economics Is Better than the Mainstream Noah Smith has acknowledged the failings of mainstream macroeconomics, but he says that none of the “outside ideas” offer a better replacement. He failed to mention the Austrian school, but we can still show how the Austrian tradition parries his criticisms with ease. 1. Quantitative […]
Oilmageddon, Central Banks And Liquidity: The 3 “Feedback Loops” Keeping Citi Up At Night
Oilmageddon, Central Banks And Liquidity: The 3 “Feedback Loops” Keeping Citi Up At Night In recent months we have seen a dramatic spike in visualizations by sellside analysts, who appear to have finally grasped the reflexive nature of markets first noted so many years ago by none other than George Soros, which – with the […]
The Slow Crash: When Global Economies are Run by Banks
The Slow Crash: When Global Economies are Run by Banks I’m Bonnie Faulkner. Today on Guns and Butter, Dr. Michael Hudson. Today’s show: The Slow Crash. Dr. Hudson is a financial economist and historian. He is President of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street financial analyst and Distinguished Research Professor of […]
Why We Can Expect Cripplingly Higher Oil Prices In The Near Future
Why We Can Expect Cripplingly Higher Oil Prices In The Near Future The break-even price for Permian basin tight oil plays is about $61 per barrel (Table 1). That puts Permian plays among the lowest cost significant supply sources in the world. Although that is good news for U.S. tight oil plays, there is a […]
You are currently living through the dumbest monetary experimental end game in history (including Havenstein and Gono’s)
You are currently living through the dumbest monetary experimental end game in history (including Havenstein and Gono’s) We have seen several explanations for the financial crisis and its lingering effects depressing our global economy in its aftermath. Some are plain stupid, such as greed for some reason suddenly overwhelmed people working within finance, as if […]
Bernanke Blew It Big-Time: He Should Have Raised Rates Three Years Ago
Bernanke Blew It Big-Time: He Should Have Raised Rates Three Years Ago Bernanke blew it big-time, letting the “recovery” run seven years without any significant increase in rates. It is now painfully obvious that Ben Bernanke blew it big-time by not raising rates three years ago when the economy and markets enjoyed tailwinds. The former Federal […]
Don’t listen to the ruling elite: the world economy is in real trouble
Don’t listen to the ruling elite: the world economy is in real trouble Andy Xie says those attending the G20, Davos and other wasteful meetings are wrong to try to pin the blame for the turmoil on people’s psychology; all signs point to a prolonged period of global stagnation and instability The G20 working group […]
What Will The Global Economy Look Like After The ‘Great Reset’?
What Will The Global Economy Look Like After The ‘Great Reset’? A very common phrase used over the past couple years by the International Monetary Fund’s Christine Lagarde as well as other globalist mouthpieces is the “global reset.” Very rarely do these elites ever actually mention any details as to what this “reset” means. But […]
