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The Road to 2025 (Part 2) – Russia and China Have Had Enough
The Road to 2025 (Part 2) – Russia and China Have Had Enough Part 1 of this series focused on how the U.S. empire no longer provides any real benefit to the average American citizen. Rather, the spoils of overseas wars, the domestic surveillance state and an overall corrupt economy are being systematically funneled to […]
China Prepares “Emergency Response Plan” Amid Escalating US Trade War
China Prepares “Emergency Response Plan” Amid Escalating US Trade War While in recent days the growing trade war between China and the US has moved off the front page of market concerns despite now daily skirmishes such as today’s anti-dumping probe launch by the US into US steel wheels which followed a Chinese 179% tariff […]
China’s “Nuclear Option” in the Trade War
China’s “Nuclear Option” in the Trade War The United States has been interested in economic relations with China since 1784, shortly after the American War for Independence. At first, this interest was purely economic, because the British refused to deal with the U.S. (for obvious reasons). So the Americans bought Chinese goods, and the Chinese […]
Is the “Petro-Yuan” a Credible Challenge to Dollar Supremacy?
Is the “Petro-Yuan” a Credible Challenge to Dollar Supremacy? Wolf Richter with Jim Goddard on This Week in Money: China latest effort to get its currency to be used globally is the “petro-yuan.” Is it a credible challenge to the supremacy of the US dollar? If China dumped US Treasuries, what would that accomplish? And […]
Four Flashpoints of Volatility
Four Flashpoints of Volatility 1 – Trade Wars Flashpoints, From China to Canada and Mexico Wall Street has knee-jerk reactions to any trade war related headlines. There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about trade wars. The world is increasingly more connected than ever. Many major American companies that are household names such as Starbucks […]
China: “The Arrogant US Has A Record Of Launching Wars On Deceptive Grounds”
China: “The Arrogant US Has A Record Of Launching Wars On Deceptive Grounds” While the lack of retaliation by Russia to Trump’s Friday night Syrian airstrikes surprised some, Russia defended its stance of shrugging in response (and not escalating to full blown world war), by asserting that Soviet-made missiles intercepted more than half of the […]
China Slams Syrian Airstrikes As Germany And Italy Refuse To Participate
China Slams Syrian Airstrikes As Germany And Italy Refuse To Participate While the western community has been broadly supportive of the overnight strikes launched against Syria by the US, UK and France, two prominent members have either refused to participate or outright oppose them. As we first reported last week, Germany (along with Italy) refused […]
The US Fading into Irrelevance – A Good Thing for the World
The US Fading into Irrelevance – A Good Thing for the World Chaos reigns in the United States, spreading to its closest allies. The war amongst Western elites is in full swing, manifesting itself from commercial wars to failed diplomacy, empty threats of war, corruption, and announced military withdrawals and attacks. To sum up the […]
Hot War and Cold Markets
Hot War and Cold Markets This is turning into a comedy. A black comedy, for sure, but still. As both the Skripal novichok ‘poisoning’ case in Britain and the ‘chemical attack’ in Douma, Syria fall flat on their faces on a total and absolute lack of evidence, it’s becoming clear that western ‘authorities’ are not […]
It’s Pure Math – We’re Headed for a Train Wreck – Bill Holter
It’s Pure Math – We’re Headed for a Train Wreck – Bill Holter Financial writer and gold expert Bill Holter says China has a lot of weapons to fight a trade war with the U.S. China could stop buying Treasury bonds (as it reportedly already has done). It could sell Treasury bonds. It could slash […]
The Harder the Winds of War Blow, the More they Suck.
The Harder the Winds of War Blow, the More they Suck. In Vietnam, the wind doesn’t blow… it sucks. — Tag Line for Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” When I wrote a few weeks ago that I thought the Neocons were making the full-court press for war I thought President Trump was a reluctant player in […]
China Eyes Yuan Devaluation in Trade Dispute
China Eyes Yuan Devaluation in Trade Dispute Finally, we have a story that makes retaliatory sense vs. the widely believed “nuclear” treasury dumping theory. The widely-circulated “nuclear” theory suggests China would dump US treasuries in a trade war with the US. That theory never made any sense. Such a move would tend to strengthen the […]
Petro-yuan is the newest weapon for the China-Russia-Iran anti-USD alliance
Petro-yuan is the newest weapon for the China-Russia-Iran anti-USD alliance Pictured above, the currency symbols for the old Spanish peseta and the Chinese yuan. Maybe Baba Beijing can synthesize the two of them into a cooling looking petro-yuan logo. After 25 years of dreams, planning, rumors and testing, the Chinese petro-yuan is now official. Right […]
“We Understand The Chinese Government Has Halted Purchases Of US Treasuries”: SGH
“We Understand The Chinese Government Has Halted Purchases Of US Treasuries”: SGH On Friday, we reported that among the five “nuclear” options available to Beijing to retaliate against Trump’s latest $100BN in import tariffs, was the choice whether or not to sell US Treasuries. But what if Beijing did not want to unleash a full-blown […]
Trump’s Dangerous Game of Chicken
Trump’s Dangerous Game of Chicken As the “tit-for-tat” trade fight between the US and China escalates, Donald Trump is likely to find that he doesn’t “know China” the way he once thought. When he said that during the presidential campaign, he based his understanding of China on one thing: the high rent in Trump Tower […]
