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Overcapacity “will be even greater than in 2009.”
Overcapacity “will be even greater than in 2009.” “I would be open to the possibility” of reducing the fed funds rate “even further” and go negative, explained Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota on Thursday. Some folks just don’t get it. Here are the results of seven years of global QE and zero-interest-rate policies: Global demand […]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Permanently Locking In The Obama Agenda For 40 Percent Of The Global Economy
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Permanently Locking In The Obama Agenda For 40 Percent Of The Global Economy We have just witnessed one of the most significant steps toward a one world economic system that we have ever seen. Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been completed, and if approved it will create the largest trading bloc […]
Biggest Crash In South Korea Exports Since 2009 Confirms Global Trade In Freefall
Biggest Crash In South Korea Exports Since 2009 Confirms Global Trade In Freefall While the market’s attention overnight was focused on China’s crumbling manufacturing and service PMI, data which was already hinted in the flash PMI reports earlier in August, the real stunner came not from China but from South Korea, which last night reported […]
Bee battles: why our native pollinators are losing the war
As global commerce grows, the movement of goods is occurring at ever-faster rates. And with increased global trade comes the spread of non-native species. This includes invasive insects that are making life difficult for domestic bees. Non-native species get introduced both intentionally and accidentally. However they migrate, though, their spread can lead to devastating results. […]
Global Trade In Freefall: Container Freight Rates From Asia To Europe Crash 60% In Three Weeks
Global Trade In Freefall: Container Freight Rates From Asia To Europe Crash 60% In Three Weeks Three weeks ago, when we last looked at the collapse in trade along what may be the most trafficked route involving China, i.e., from Asia to Northern Europe, we noted that while that particular shipping freight rate Europe had crashed some […]
Something Just Snapped: Container Freight Rates From Asia To Europe Crash 23% In One Week
Something Just Snapped: Container Freight Rates From Asia To Europe Crash 23% In One Week One of the few silver linings surrounding the hard-landing Chinese economy in recent weeks has been the surprising resilience and strength of the Baltic Dry Index: even as Chinese commodity demand has cratered in 2015, this “index” has more than […]
Shanghai Containerized Freight Index Plunges to New Low
Shanghai Containerized Freight Index Plunges to New Low One of the indicators that show that things are not all that rosy in China, or in the global economy, is the price carriers charge to ship containers from China to its big trading partners around the globe. Those prices have totally collapsed. Two factors are at work: […]
US Recession Imminent – World Trade Slumps By Most Since Financial Crisis
US Recession Imminent – World Trade Slumps By Most Since Financial Crisis As goes the world, so goes America (according to 30 years of historical data), and so when world trade volumes drop over 2% (the biggest drop since 2009) in the last six months to the weakest since June 2014, the “US recession imminent” […]
World Trade Drops Most Since Financial Crisis
World Trade Drops Most Since Financial Crisis Maybe we shouldn’t take our daily corporate samples too seriously. Maybe they don’t adequately represent the global economy. So IBM’s revenues last quarter plunged 13% from a year ago. It blamed China and the dollar, among other culprits. But IBM’s revenues have dropped for 13 quarters in a […]
Sacred Cows? Nah, Secretive Trade Deals Are Mostly Bull
Sacred Cows? Nah, Secretive Trade Deals Are Mostly Bull Global pacts like the TPP threaten made-in-Canada system, argue dairy farmers. [Editor’s note: The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, now in advanced stages of negotiation, is ruffling the feathers of Canadian dairy farmers, who worry the agreement will impact the industry’s long-standing “supply management” system that protects farmers […]
LEAKED: How the Biggest Banks Are Conspiring to Rip Up Financial Regulations around the World
LEAKED: How the Biggest Banks Are Conspiring to Rip Up Financial Regulations around the World WikiLeaks got its hands on part of the secret trade pact for services It’s almost impossible to keep anything secret these days – not even the core text of a hyper-secret trade deal, the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), […]
Asia depends on Middle East for 66 % of its oil imports
Asia depends on Middle East for 66 % of its oil imports This post uses data from the inter area oil movement section of the BP Statistical Review published in June 2015. It is a continuation of an earlier post on Asian oil consumption and production Global trade and Asia’s share Total global oil trade […]
The Four Horses Asses of the TPP Apocalypse
The Four Horses Asses of the TPP Apocalypse Congress members are often pressured in how to vote by the moneyed interests that buy their television ads, which in turn persuade the media to “cover” them nicely and dumb people to vote for them. But more often they are pressured in how to vote by the […]
Rule By The Corporations
Rule By The Corporations TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. “Free trade” is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, […]
Julian Assange on the TPP – “Deal Isn’t About Trade, It’s About Corporate Control”
Julian Assange on the TPP – “Deal Isn’t About Trade, It’s About Corporate Control” It’s mostly not about trade. Only 5 of the 29 chapters are about traditional trade. – Julian Assange in a recent interview with Democracy Now I’ve focused a little bit more of my attention on the Trans-Pacific Partnership lately, as the Obama […]
