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This is how World War III starts—it will be financial
This is how World War III starts—it will be financial In his History of the Peloponnesian War, ancient Greek historian Thucydides told us the tale of a dominant regional power (Sparta) that felt threatened by the rise of a competing power (Athens). Sparta felt so threatened, in fact, that all the moves they made to keep […]
China Warns Officials: Allow Social Unrest, Lose Your Job
China Warns Officials: Allow Social Unrest, Lose Your Job To be sure, there are always going to be financial and geopolitical landmines and every once in awhile we – and by “we” we’re referring to the market, or the country, or humanity, or whatever collective you want to choose – are going to step on […]
Hugh Hendry: “If China Devalues By 20% The World Is Over, Everything Hits A Wall”
Hugh Hendry: “If China Devalues By 20% The World Is Over, Everything Hits A Wall” Once upon a time Hugh Hendry was one of the world’s most prominent financial skeptics, arguing with anyone who would listen that the status quo is doomed and that central planning will never work. Most famously, back in 2010 during a BBC […]
Japan’s Finance Minister Accidentally Reveals How It All Ends: “War”
Japan’s Finance Minister Accidentally Reveals How It All Ends: “War” While this all started with a currency “war,” it seems – according to a stunningly candid transcript of Japan’s finance minister’s conversation with none other than Paul Krugman – that the real endgame here is actual war. Aso remarked that “a similar [deflationary mindset] had occurred in the […]
Presenting The Complete Global Currency Swirlogram
Presenting The Complete Global Currency Swirlogram In case you missed it, DM central banks are locked in a truly epic FX deathmatch. Sluggish growth and trade and the attendant global deflationary supply glut have left the world stuck in a nauseating, perpetual hangover from the financial crisis. Subpar inflation and disappointing growth have become the […]
China And India Rewrite The Rules Of The Oil And Gas Game
China And India Rewrite The Rules Of The Oil And Gas Game As the current oil price crisis leads to some game-changing upheavals in the global energy market, Asia’s two powerhouses, China and India, are taking advantage of the supply glut to rewrite the long-established rules of business. India and China have seen exponential growth […]
Chinese Take Over Canada’s Real Estate Market, Buy One-Third Of All Vancouver Homes Sold In 2015
Chinese Take Over Canada’s Real Estate Market, Buy One-Third Of All Vancouver Homes Sold In 2015 “Housing in Vancouver is insane — it was insane when I left and it’s more insane now.” That’s from 33-year-old Kevin Oke, co-founder of LlamaZoo Interactive who left Vancouver for Victoria two years ago because he couldn’t afford to buy a […]
Start of a New World War
Start of a New World War Propaganda about Russian and Chinese “aggression” has cloaked the reality of the U.S. and the West moving aggressively to encircle both countries, the start of a new world war, says John Pilger. I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the […]
In One Year The US Mining Industry Lost More Money Than It Made In The Prior Eight
In One Year The US Mining Industry Lost More Money Than It Made In The Prior Eight For anyone still looking for context to the biggest ever collapse in commodity prices in history, one far sharper and now longer than that in the deflationary aftermath of the Lehman failure, look no further than the chart […]
China Hard Landing Hits Electricity Consumption
China Hard Landing Hits Electricity Consumption Chairman of large power company slips, apparently. OK, we’ve heard the official story. China is transitioning from a manufacturing economy to a consumption-based economy. Consumers are king. They’re going to buy stuff. And that’s going to heat up the economy. Imports and exports have been plunging for months, but […]
A Desperate China Begged Fed For “Plunge Protection Playbook” As Its Market Crashed
A Desperate China Begged Fed For “Plunge Protection Playbook” As Its Market Crashed Last June, China’s stock market miracle ended in tears. The SHCOMP’s inexorable, parabolic ascent was to a large degree facilitated by an explosion of margin debt, the likes of which could not be found in any other major market across the globe. […]
Growth Is the Answer to Everything
Growth Is the Answer to Everything The Solution to Every Problem Little Changes Add Up Restoring Growth From Carrot to Stick Newport Beach, New York, and an SIC Conference Update “Growth is never by mere chance. It is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney In this business we spend a lot […]
China Ocean Freight Indices Plunge to Record Lows
China Ocean Freight Indices Plunge to Record Lows There’s simply no respite. Money is leaving China in myriad ways, chasing after overseas assets in near-panic mode. So Anbang Insurance Group, after having already acquired the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan a year ago for a record $1.95 billion from Hilton Worldwide Holdings, at the time majority-owned by […]
Caught On Tape: “Enormous Crowds” Of Unemployed Chinese Miners Take To The Streets, Clash With Riot Police
Caught On Tape: “Enormous Crowds” Of Unemployed Chinese Miners Take To The Streets, Clash With Riot Police In early November, we said that far from the traditional risk factors affecting China’s economy, including the slowing economy, the stock market (and now housing 2.0) bubble, the soaring NPLs, and record debt, the most under-reported risk facing China is […]
How Vancouver Is Being Sold To The Chinese: The Illegal Dark Side Behind The Real Estate Bubble
How Vancouver Is Being Sold To The Chinese: The Illegal Dark Side Behind The Real Estate Bubble One month ago, when describing the latest in an endless series of Vancouver real estate horror stories, in this case an abandoned, rotting home (which is currently listed for a modest $7.2 million), we explained the simple money-laundering dynamic involving Chinese “investors” […]
