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Looking for Sanity in an Insane World
Looking for Sanity in an Insane World Why has China become so important? Largely because global investors are in this transition mode and do not understand how or why the foundation of everything is changing beneath them. The market turmoil in China spread around the world on Thursday as global investors took their lead from China as […]
China’s Slow-Motion Sleight Of Hand Shatters
China’s Slow-Motion Sleight Of Hand Shatters The Chinese stock markets broke through 2 circuit breakers today, breakers that were introduced only a few months ago in response to the market selloff, triggered by a surprise yuan devaluation, in August. The first breaker, at -5%, forced a 15-minute trading halt. The second one, at -7%, halted […]
2016 Is An Easy Year To Predict
2016 Is An Easy Year To Predict No year is ever easy to predict, if only because if it were, that would take all the fun out of life. But still, predictions for 2016 look quite a bit easier than other years. This is because a whole bunch of irreversible things happened in 2015 that […]
This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Canadian Edition
This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Canadian Edition Along with the currencies of most other commodity-exporting countries, the Canadian dollar has been in near-freefall lately. Gold, meanwhile, has been sucked down with the rest of the commodities complex, falling hard since 2013. But only in US dollars. For Canadians, with their weak domestic currency, […]
The Trade Wars Begin: U.S. Imposes 256% Tarriff On Chinese Steel Imports
The Trade Wars Begin: U.S. Imposes 256% Tarriff On Chinese Steel Imports Two weeks ago, when looking at the latest import price index data, we showed something disturbing: China has become an all out exporter of deflation. As the chart below shows, In November, import prices from China decreased 1.5% over the past 12 months, the […]
Are Negative Rates Fueling Deflation?
Are Negative Rates Fueling Deflation? Those in power never understand markets. They are very myopic in their view of the world. The assumption that lowering interest rates will “stimulate” the economy has NEVER worked, not even once. Nevertheless, they assume they can manipulate society in the Marxist-Keynesian ideal world, but what if they are wrong? By lowering […]
The Global Commodity Crash Tells Us That A Major Deflationary Financial Crisis Is Imminent
The Global Commodity Crash Tells Us That A Major Deflationary Financial Crisis Is Imminent If we really are plunging into a deflationary global financial crisis, we would expect to see commodity prices crash hard. That happened just before the great stock market crash of 2008, and that is precisely what is happening once again right […]
What Deflation Quacks Like
What Deflation Quacks Like As yet another day of headlines shows, see the links and details in today’s Debt Rattle at the Automatic Earth, deflation is visible everywhere, from a 98% drop in EM debt issuance to junk bonds reporting the first loss since 2008 to corporate bonds downgrades to plummeting cattle prices in Kansas to […]
“One Big Shock Away from a Global Downturn…”
“One Big Shock Away from a Global Downturn…” Zombies vs. Cronies DUBLIN – Most elections these days are contests between cronies and zombies. The left favors the zombies. The right favors the cronies. In yesterday’s presidential elections in Argentina the zombies lost. It’s time for the cronies to take over. New Argentine president Mauricio Macri […]
The Long, Cold Winter Ahead
The Long, Cold Winter Ahead Not Immune Cold winds of deflation gust across the autumn economic landscape. Global trade languishes and commodities rust away like abandoned scrap metal with a visible dusting of frost. The economic optimism that embellished markets heading into 2015 have cooled as the year moves through its final stretch. Photo credit: David […]
The Great Fall Of China Started At Least 4 Years Ago
The Great Fall Of China Started At Least 4 Years Ago Looking through a bunch of numbers and graphs dealing with China recently, it occurred to us that perhaps we, and most others with us, may need to recalibrate our focus on what to emphasize amongst everything we read and hear, if we’re looking to […]
Albert Edwards Explains Why The “Global Economy Will Be Thrown Into Chaos”
Albert Edwards Explains Why The “Global Economy Will Be Thrown Into Chaos” SocGen’s permarealist, Albert Edwards, has been the one person who for the past decade has firmly held the belief that a “deflationary Ice Age” is upon the world – courtesy of an unmanageable debt load – no matter what central banks do. There […]
The Eurozone’s Minsky Conundrum
The Eurozone’s Minsky Conundrum BRUSSELS – Stubbornly low inflation has the European Central Bank worried. But its response – essentially just more quantitative easing – could backfire, exacerbating imbalances and generating serious financial instability. As it stands, the headline consumer price index in the eurozone hovers around zero, and even core inflation remains below 1% […]
The Next Level of John Law Type Central Planning Madness
The Next Level of John Law Type Central Planning Madness Cries for Going Totally Crazy are Intensifying What are the basic requirements for becoming the chief economist of the IMF? Judging from what we have seen so far, the person concerned has to be a died-in-the-wool statist and fully agree with the (neo-) Keynesian faith, […]
