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On Hostile Coexistence with China
On Hostile Coexistence with China President Trump’s trade war with China has quickly metastasized into every other domain of Sino-American relations. Washington is now trying to dismantle China’s interdependence with the American economy, curb its role in global governance, counter its foreign investments, cripple its companies, block its technological advance, punish its many deviations from […]
Post-tariff considerations
Post-tariff considerations President Trump has declared he will extend tariffs of 25% on all America’s imports of Chinese goods. China is responding with tariff increases of its own. The consequences of this action and reaction will be to kick-start higher monetary inflation in America and an economic slump. This article explains how an overdue credit […]
Prepare for Trench Warfare
Prepare for Trench Warfare What if China isn’t half so desperate for a deal as the president believes? Are we in for an extended siege of economic trench warfare? Today we explore possibilities… and their implications. We first direct our gaze to Wall Street. Investors came crouching from their shelters this morning… as if expecting […]
Global Trade Collapsing To Depression Levels
Global Trade Collapsing To Depression Levels With the trade war between the US and China re-escalating once more, investors are again casting frightened glances at declining global trade volumes, which as Bloomberg writes today, “threaten to upend the global economy’s much-anticipated rebound and could even throw its decade-long expansion into doubt if the conflict spirals […]
China Calls For “People’s War” Against The US, Vows To “Fight For A New World”
China Calls For “People’s War” Against The US, Vows To “Fight For A New World” While market mood has shifted diametrically from yesterday, with stocks sharply higher on Tuesday following what has widely been interpreted as conciliatory comments from both president Trump and various members of China’s ruling elite, one would be hard pressed to […]
Macro Update – Gold, Bitcoin and the Gigantic Global Debt Bubble
Macro Update – Gold, Bitcoin and the Gigantic Global Debt Bubble Today’s the first day in a long time financial markets appear willing to at least consider the reality of the geopolitical situation on the ground for what it is, as opposed to what most people would like it to be. As I’ve noted for […]
Stocks Crater – 3.5 Trillion Dollars In Global Market Cap Wiped Out – China Considers “Dumping U.S. Treasuries”
Stocks Crater – 3.5 Trillion Dollars In Global Market Cap Wiped Out – China Considers “Dumping U.S. Treasuries” Wall Street responded to our escalating trade war with China by throwing a bit of a temper tantrum. On Monday the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 617 points, and that was the worst day for the […]
The Trend is Not Your Friend
The Trend is Not Your Friend The be-Muellered, bothered, and bewildered American public may find US-China trade talks about as interesting as a rain delay in an Orioles-Chisox game, but the Friday collapse of negotiations may be marked by historians as the day that the global economy died. The Big Box blue-light-special orgy of bargain […]
“China’s JPMorgan” Seeks Money From Its Employees To Avoid Collapse
“China’s JPMorgan” Seeks Money From Its Employees To Avoid Collapse Ever since Beijing allowed private Chinese companies (even certain state-owned enterprises) to officially fail for the first time in 2015, and file for bankruptcy to restructure their unsustainable debt loads, it’s been a one-way street of corporate bankruptcies, one which we profiled last June in […]
A “Cancer On Our Economy”: Report Finds Over $7 Billion Laundered Through British Columbia In 2018
A “Cancer On Our Economy”: Report Finds Over $7 Billion Laundered Through British Columbia In 2018 It may have taken a while, but now that housing prices are starting to crash in Vancouver, BC legislators are finally starting to get wise to the fact that the province has been a hot bed for money laundering. It was an easy […]
Event Risk
Event Risk In rare moments markets face major event risk, in even rarer moments the event risk is well advertised in advance and the risk implies massive potential moves in either direction.Markets are faced with such a moment right now: The outcome of the China negotiations. Ever since Donald Trump tweeted out new tariff threats […]
The Trade War Is Back
The Trade War Is Back President Trump shocked markets yesterday when he announced that a new, heavy round of tariffs on Chinese goods will take effect this Friday. Complacent markets had assumed that a trade deal would get done, that it was just a matter of sorting out the details. Now that is far from […]
Cyber wars and all that
Cyber wars and all that Behind the Huawei story, we must not forget there is a wider financial war being waged by America against China and Russia. Stories about China’s banks being short of dollars are incorrect: the shortage is of inward capital flows to support the US Government’s budget deficit. By attracting those global […]
China’s Mass Surveillance App Hacked; Code Reveals Specific Criteria For Illegal Oppression
China’s Mass Surveillance App Hacked; Code Reveals Specific Criteria For Illegal Oppression Human Rights Watch got their hands on an app used by Chinese authorities in the western Xinjiang region to surveil, track and categorize the entire local population – particularly the 13 million or so Turkic Muslims subject to heightened scrutiny, of which around one million are thought […]
