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Plunging Manufacturing Numbers Mean That It Is Time To Hit The Panic Button For The Global Economy
Plunging Manufacturing Numbers Mean That It Is Time To Hit The Panic Button For The Global Economy We haven’t seen numbers like these since the last global recession. I recently wrote about how global trade is imploding all over the planet, and the same thing is true when it comes to manufacturing. We just learned that […]
Striking Admission By Former Bank Of England Head: The European Depression Was A “Deliberate” Act
Striking Admission By Former Bank Of England Head: The European Depression Was A “Deliberate” Act Once again we find that it is only after they leave their official posts that central bankers finally tell the truth. Last night, it was Alan Greenspan who blasted the state of the economy, saying that “we’re in trouble basically because […]
Fear The Smell Of (Monetary) Napalm In The Morning
Fear The Smell Of (Monetary) Napalm In The Morning Via ConvergEx’s Nick Colas, Warm up the choppers and put some Wagner on the loudspeakers – “Helicopter money” is a hot economic topic. That’s where central banks print money and either hand it to the government for things like infrastructure investment or just send it out […]
G-20 Needs To “Man Up” Or Risk Sparking Market Chaos, Citi Warns
G-20 Needs To “Man Up” Or Risk Sparking Market Chaos, Citi Warns Two days ago, the man who now signs your Federal Reserve notes threw cold water on hopes for a so-called “Shanghai Accord.” Over the past month or so, anticipation has built among market participants for some manner of coordinated policy response at this weekend’s G20 summit […]
World Trade Collapses Most Since Crisis
World Trade Collapses Most Since Crisis One question now dominates the global macro discussion: has subdued global growth and trade become the norm in the post-crisis world? That is, have lackluster growth and trade become structural and endemic rather than transient and cyclical? Those are the burning questions that keep central bankers (not to mention […]
Even The Average Joe Gets It: “They’re Winding Us All Up For A Minsky Moment”
Even The Average Joe Gets It: “They’re Winding Us All Up For A Minsky Moment” With global central bank policy in disarray following the Fed’s now admitted “policy error” of tightening just as the US and global economy are heading for recession, while the rest of the world desperate to cut to ever more negative […]
The World Is Hoarding Gold: “This Was Just A Taste Of What’s To Come”
The World Is Hoarding Gold: “This Was Just A Taste Of What’s To Come” Earlier this month, as retail investors lost confidence in the global economy and broader stock markets, an air of panic began to set in. Reports indicate the lines were literally forming around the block at gold stores throughout London and elsewhere. It was, by […]
The Danger Of Low Oil Prices For The Global Economy
The Danger Of Low Oil Prices For The Global Economy Oilprice.com wanted to check in with Dr. John C. Edmunds, a Professor of Finance at Babson College, to get his thoughts on the OPEC deal, oil markets, and some developments in Latin America. He is an expert in international finance, capital markets, foreign exchange risk, and […]
The Fatal Flaw That Has Doomed Our Economy
The Fatal Flaw That Has Doomed Our Economy What Went Wrong? BALTIMORE – We are searching for an insight. Each time we think we see it… like the shadow of a ghost in an old photo… it gets away from us. It concerns the real nature of our money system… and what’s wrong with it. […]
Why According To One Bank, Massive Central Bank Intervention Is Imminent
Why According To One Bank, Massive Central Bank Intervention Is Imminent Any time the relative performance of global financials to US Treasuries has stumbled as far as it has, as shown in the chart below, it has meant one thing – a major central bank intervention was imminent. At least that’s the interpretation of BofA’s Michael […]
NIRP Won’t Work – What Ray Dalio Thinks Central Banks Will Do Next
NIRP Won’t Work – What Ray Dalio Thinks Central Banks Will Do Next Just as we first warned in September 2013, so it seems the view of “helicopter money” being imminent is now becoming more mainstream as the powers that be slowly propagandize the benefits. If dropping interest rates to zero was Unorthodox Policy #1 and […]
OECD cuts growth outlook for Canada’s economy this year and next
OECD cuts growth outlook for Canada’s economy this year and next Canada, other economies ‘reliant on commodity exports’ bear brunt of global slowdown A worker builds a jet engine at a factory in Quebec. According to the OECD, Canada’s economy is going to perform worse than previously anticipated this year and next. (Radio-Canada) One of […]
First Iran, Now Iraq Refuses To Commit To Oil Production Freeze
First Iran, Now Iraq Refuses To Commit To Oil Production Freeze For all the euphoria about the proposed OPEC oil production freeze deal, the reality is that nothing has been actually decided. As readers will recall, the only “decisions” agreed to between the Saudi and Russian oil ministers were to cap production at already record […]
21 New Numbers That Show That The Global Economy Is Absolutely Imploding
21 New Numbers That Show That The Global Economy Is Absolutely Imploding After a series of stunning declines through the month of January and the first half of February, global financial markets seem to have found a patch of relative stability at least for the moment. But that does not mean that the crisis is […]
