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“Zombie Ships” – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Suggests
“Zombie Ships” – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Suggests One glance at The Baltic Dry Index’s collapse is all that most need to see the painful state of the global shipping industry. However, as gCaptain reports, reality is even worse as the boom in so-called “zombie ships” suggests there is no recovery in […]
China Warns “Social Stability Threatened” As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About To Lose Their Jobs
China Warns “Social Stability Threatened” As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About To Lose Their Jobs In late September, we were stunned to read (and report) that in the first mega-layoff in recent Chinese history, the Harbin-based Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group, or Longmay Group for short, the biggest met coal miner in northeast China had […]
War On Cash Escalates: China Readies Digital Currency, IMF Says “Extremely Beneficial”
War On Cash Escalates: China Readies Digital Currency, IMF Says “Extremely Beneficial” Remember when Bitcoin and its digital currency cohorts were slammed by authorities and written off by the elite as worthless? Well now, as the war on cash escalates, officials from The IMF to China are seeing the opportunity to control the world’s money […]
How Neocons Banished Realism
How Neocons Banished Realism The grip that neocons and liberal interventionists have on Official Washington’s opinion circles is now so strong that “realists” who once provided an important counterbalance have been almost banished from foreign policy debates, a dangerous dilemma that James W Carden explores. In a widely remarked upon article for the online version of Foreign […]
Last Bubble Standing
Last Bubble Standing EM debt bubble… emaciated, FX Carry… crucified, Crude…crushed, High yield bonds… burst, Chinese equities… blown, Trannies… trounced, Small Caps… slammed, Biotechs… busted, and FANGs finally FUBAR!But there is one big (very big) bubble left in the world that no one is talking about, and a rather large liquidity-busting pin beckons… In May 2015 we […]
Russell Napier Explains How The Decline Of The Yuan Destroys Belief In Central Banking
Russell Napier Explains How The Decline Of The Yuan Destroys Belief In Central Banking It’s Not a Pet, It’s a Falcon: How the decline of the RMB destroys belief in central banking and a successful reflation Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot […]
Bank of Montreal Asks If “Oil Prices Could Collapse To $20”; Answers: “Yes”
Bank of Montreal Asks If “Oil Prices Could Collapse To $20”; Answers: “Yes” When looking at the price of oil in 2015, Canada’s Bank of Montreal admits it was wrong. Very, very wrong. In our “2015 Year Ahead” report we laid out three plausible scenarios: (1) our base case, which forecast Brent crude oil prices […]
6 Positive Signs That Mainstream Media is Collapsing
6 Positive Signs That Mainstream Media is Collapsing There is an information awakening taking place right now, and mainstream media is being outed for what it really is: corporate and government controlled propaganda. People are turning to alternative news sources more swiftly than ever now, and as a result, the old guard of media is collapsing at […]
“It’s A Bloodbath” – Here Is The Biggest Casualty Of Canada’s Recession
“It’s A Bloodbath” – Here Is The Biggest Casualty Of Canada’s Recession In the past year, we have extensively profiled the collapse of ground zero of Canada’s oil industry, Calgary, as a result of the plunge in the price of oil, in posts such as the following: “Canada Crude Contagion: Calgary Home Prices Drop Most […]
Is GDP Over?
Is GDP Over? Economists from rich countries increasingly agree: Sustainable development and reducing inequality matter more than economic growth. (Photo: World Bank Photo Collection / Flickr) Organizers of October’s fifth OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge, and Policy could barely contain their sense of satisfaction when the three-day event opened in Guadalajara, Mexico. Why all […]
A Failure of Imagination
A Failure of Imagination Simply stated we create our own reality……although it is a ‘reality’ strictly limited to the range and scope of our beliefs and imagination. Thus if we can conceive of a world no different than what we believe actually exists, which in turn is based solely upon our present day (deliberately) limited […]
The World Hits Its Credit Limit, And The Debt Market Is Starting To Realize That
The World Hits Its Credit Limit, And The Debt Market Is Starting To Realize That One month ago, when looking at the dramatic change in the market landscape when the first cracks in the central planning facade became evident and it appeared that central banks are in the process of rapidly losing credibility, and the […]
America’s “Inevitable” Revolution & The Redistribution Fallacy
America’s “Inevitable” Revolution & The Redistribution Fallacy Here’s the good news: The chaos and upheaval we see all around us have historical precedents and yet America survived. The bad news: Everything likely will get worse before it gets better again. That’s NYPost.com’s Michael Goodwin’s chief takeaway from “Shattered Consensus,” a meticulously argued analysis of the growing disorder. Author James Piereson […]
