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Will China Bring an Energy-Debt Crisis?
Will China Bring an Energy-Debt Crisis? It is easy for those of us in the West to overlook how important China has become to the world economy, and also the limits it is reaching. The two big areas in which China seems to be reaching limits are energy production and debt. Reaching either of these limits […]
Is A Venezuelan Default Inevitable?
Is A Venezuelan Default Inevitable? Bondholders, creditors, and any company with operations in Venezuela are all agog for news from Caracas after President Nicolas Maduro announced Venezuela will look to restructure its US$89 billion worth of debt to be able to continue servicing it. Forecasts about what will happen next are all pessimistic, and that’s […]
Italy Target2 Imbalance Hits Record €432.5 Billion as Dwindling Trust in Banks Plunges
Italy Target2 Imbalance Hits Record €432.5 Billion as Dwindling Trust in Banks Plunges Contrary to ECB propaganda, Target2 imbalances are a direct result an unsustainable balance of payment system. The imbalances represent both capital flight and debts that can never be paid back. If you think Italy can pay German and other creditors a record […]
Ron Paul: We Are Reaching A Point Of No Return
Ron Paul: We Are Reaching A Point Of No Return When the system will break no matter what the Fed tries Dr. Ron Paul has long been a leading voice for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, sound money, civil liberty, and non-interventionist foreign policies. Dr. Paul served as the US Representative for Texas’s […]
How US Debt Slaves Get Trapped by “Deferred Interest”
How US Debt Slaves Get Trapped by “Deferred Interest” But over the next 2 months, they’ll try to prop up US retailers and the entire global economy. Credit cards play a huge role in what the US retail industry hopes will be a $682-billion splurge by Americans over the holiday selling season. Already, total revolving […]
The End is Near…Depopulation is Out of Control…So Buy Stocks (Seriously)
The End is Near…Depopulation is Out of Control…So Buy Stocks (Seriously) The world economy is premised on a ludicrous idea. That Asia, then India, and then Africa will continue to drive economic growth. So as not to turn this article into a book, lets consider this idea focusing on East Asia consisting of China, Japan, North and South Korea, Taiwan, and minor others. […]
78 Percent Of U.S. Workers Are Living ‘Paycheck To Paycheck’ And 71 Percent Of Them Are In Debt
78 Percent Of U.S. Workers Are Living ‘Paycheck To Paycheck’ And 71 Percent Of Them Are In Debt Are you living paycheck to paycheck? Is so, you are just like most other hard working Americans. As you will see below, 78 percent of full-time workers in the United States say that they are living paycheck […]
Deutsche Asks A Stunning Question: “Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Fiat Money?”
Deutsche Asks A Stunning Question: “Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Fiat Money?” One month ago, Deutsche Bank’s unorthodox credit analyst, Jim Reid published a phenomenal report, one which just a few years ago would have been anathema, as it dealt with two formerly taboo topics: is a financial crisis coming (yes), and […]
The Curious Case of Missing Defaults
THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING DEFAULTS CAMBRIDGE – Booms and busts in international capital flows and commodity prices, as well as the vagaries of international interest rates, have long been associated with economic crises, especially – but not exclusively – in emerging markets. The “type” of crisis varies by time and place. Sometimes the […]
Will America’s Prosperity Be Completely Wiped Out By Our Growing Debt?
Will America’s Prosperity Be Completely Wiped Out By Our Growing Debt? The federal government is now 20.4 trillion dollars in debt, and most Americans don’t seem to care that the economic prosperity that we are enjoying today could be completely destroyed by our exploding national debt. Over the past decade, the national debt has been […]
Visualizing $63 Trillion Of World Debt
Visualizing $63 Trillion Of World Debt If you add up all the money that national governments have borrowed, it tallies to a hefty $63 trillion. Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist In an ideal situation, governments are just borrowing this money to cover short-term budget deficits or to finance mission critical projects. However, as Visual Capitalist’s Jeff […]
The Petrodollar’s Biggest Challengers
The Petrodollar’s Biggest Challengers Established in the early 1970s, the petrodollar has secured the United States’ influence over the oil trade for over 40 years, but recently, it is clear that this monopoly is slowly beginning to fall apart. Due to the plummeting value of the dollar, the debt from the Vietnam War, and excessive […]
What Could Pop The Everything Bubble?
What Could Pop The Everything Bubble? A crisis that can’t be solved by just printing more dollars I’ve long held that if a problem can be solved by creating $1 trillion out of thin air and buying a raft of assets with that $1 trillion, then central banks will solve the problem by creating the […]
China’s rise, America’s fall
China’s rise, America’s fall Will the rise of China mean the fall of America? In a word, yes. Although decline might be more accurate. Why do I think this? Because China is about to launch the PetroYuan and when it does the demand for dollars and for dollar denominated debt will shrink. When it does, […]
The Time Has Come: Venezuela May Be In Default In Under 48 Hours
The Time Has Come: Venezuela May Be In Default In Under 48 Hours This past weekend, Venezuela failed to make $237 million in bond coupon payment, blaming “technical glitches” when in reality it simply did not have the money (or wish to part with it). Adding the $349 million in unpaid bond interest accumulated over […]
