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A Hard Look at a Soft Global Economy
A Hard Look at a Soft Global Economy MILAN – The global economy is settling into a slow-growth rut, steered there by policymakers’ inability or unwillingness to address major impediments at a global level. Indeed, even the current anemic pace of growth is probably unsustainable. The question is whether an honest assessment of the impediments […]
Global Trade In Freefall: China Container Freight At Record Low; Rail Traffic Tumbles, Trucking Slows Down
Global Trade In Freefall: China Container Freight At Record Low; Rail Traffic Tumbles, Trucking Slows Down Over the past year we have regularly contended that a far greater threat to the global economy than either corporate earnings, currency devaluations, rate cuts (or hikes), reserve outflow, or even the stock market, is the sudden, global trade […]
Sweden Launches MOAR QE, As Krugman Paradise Quadruples Down After Dovish Draghi
Sweden Launches MOAR QE, As Krugman Paradise Quadruples Down After Dovish Draghi Over the last six months, we’ve documented Sweden’s descent into the Keynesian Twilight Zone in great detail. Once upon a time, the Riksbank actually tried to raise rates, only to be lambasted by a furious Paul Krugman who accused the central bank of […]
Does This ‘Elite’ Magazine Cover Predict A Major Global Event For November?
Does This ‘Elite’ Magazine Cover Predict A Major Global Event For November? Last week highly acclaimed cyclical analyst Bo Polny warned of an imminent failure in stocks that could lead to a complete meltdown in world markets in November. As Michael Snyder recently noted, Polny has accurately predicted market movementsover the last three months, suggesting that his current cycle […]
What’s up with the global economy, and where do we go from here?
What’s up with the global economy, and where do we go from here? A deflationary spiral, such as is now becoming evident globally, acts as a natural poison. It now appears that the grand yearly addition to total human wealth, the global GNP, is no longer growing. If so, this means the world is headed […]
Global Trade Is Collapsing As The Worldwide Economic Recession Deepens
Global Trade Is Collapsing As The Worldwide Economic Recession Deepens When the global economy is doing well, the amount of stuff that is imported and exported around the world goes up, and when the global economy is in recession, the amount of stuff that is imported and exported around the world goes down. It is […]
The Last 30 Years of Global Economic History Are About to Go Out the Window
The Last 30 Years of Global Economic History Are About to Go Out the Window Over the last 30 years, a near constant flow of cash has inundated China and other emerging markets. It has lifted those economies, pulled hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and dictated corporate expansion plans worldwide. That wave […]
Bubbles and Backlashes
Bubbles and Backlashes Image: trialsanderrors/Flickr CC. Financial markets have been turbulent as of late with no end in sight. A sagging global economy could overwhelm America’s recovery efforts with toxic effects on key climate change and clean energy initiatives now underway. The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to postpone an interest rate hike is but one reflection […]
The G-30 Group Of Central Bankers Warn They Can “No Longer Save The World”
The G-30 Group Of Central Bankers Warn They Can “No Longer Save The World” In a detailed report by the Group of Thirty, central bankers warned that ZIRP and money printing were not sufficient to revive economic growth and risked becoming semi-permanent measures. As Reuters reports, the flow of easy money has inflated asset prices like stocks and […]
The Endgame Takes Shape: “Banning Capitalism And Bypassing Capital Markets”
The Endgame Takes Shape: “Banning Capitalism And Bypassing Capital Markets” One month ago we presented to readers that in the first official “serious” mention of “Helicopter Money” as the next (and final) form of monetary stimulus, Australia’s Macquarie Bank said that there is now about 12-18 months before this “unorthodox” policy is implemented. We also predicted that […]
Oil and the Global Economy
Oil and the Global Economy How important is oil to the future of the global economy? The remarkable economic expansion of in the United States and other industrial nations over the past century or more has been fueled by a steadily growing supply of low-cost energy—mostly from fossil fuels—oil in particular which accounts for more global energy […]
Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism
Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism The following is a transcript of CounterPunch Radio – Episode 19(originally aired September 21, 2015). Eric Draitser interviews Michael Hudson. Eric Draitser: Today I have the privilege of introducing Michael Hudson to the program. Doctor Hudson is the author of the new book Killing the Host: How Financial […]
High Priests of Global Finance Stoke Emerging Market Fears
High Priests of Global Finance Stoke Emerging Market Fears Two of the most important guardians of global finance, the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the IIF (Institute of International Finance), gave their verdict on the current state of the global economy this week. And their message could not be clearer: beware the dreaded fate of […]
