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The World Economy Wreckers Of Beijing
The World Economy Wreckers Of Beijing The desperate suzerains of the Red Ponzi are incorrigible. There appears to be no insult to economic rationality that they will not attempt in order to perpetuate their power, privileges and rule. So now comes the most preposterous gambit yet. Namely, a veritable tsunami of state handouts to foster, yes, capitalist […]
Secret Monetary Group Warns a Catastrophe Is Coming
Secret Monetary Group Warns a Catastrophe Is Coming This is just the tip of the iceberg. The Bank for International Settlements is nothing if not obscure. As the central bankers’ bank, it seems little-more than a back-door, private club for monetary elites to rub shoulders. And it’s located in Switzerland which has always carried a […]
China Proposes Unprecedented Nationalization Of Insolvent Companies: Banks Will Equitize Non-Performing Loans
China Proposes Unprecedented Nationalization Of Insolvent Companies: Banks Will Equitize Non-Performing Loans In what may be the biggest news of the day, and certainly with far greater implications than whatever Mario Draghi will announce in a few hours when we will again witness the ECB doing not “whatever it takes” but “whatever it can do”, moments ago Reuters […]
Are You Kidding Me? Chinese Exports Plunge 25.4 Percent Compared To Last Year
Are You Kidding Me? Chinese Exports Plunge 25.4 Percent Compared To Last Year We just got more evidence that global trade is absolutely imploding. Chinese exports dropped 25.4 percent during the month of February compared to a year ago, and Chinese imports fell 13.8 percent compared to a year ago. For Chinese exports, that was the worst decline that […]
Creating Russia/China Bogeymen
Creating Russia/China Bogeymen Relying on the most unreliable propaganda, Washington’s foreign policy establishment is seeking massive new military spending to counter Russian and Chinese “aggression” — when a more sober analysis would show these “threats” to be wildly exaggerated, as Gilbert Doctorow explains. Where Russia is concerned – and now also China – one can […]
The End of Globalization?
The End of Globalization? BRUSSELS – China has just announced that last year, for the first time since it began opening up its economy to the world at the end of the 1970s, exports declined on an annual basis. And that is not all; in value terms, global trade declined in 2015. The obvious question […]
“I’ll Go Full Power If There’s No Agreement” – Kuwait Breaks OPEC Production Freeze
“I’ll Go Full Power If There’s No Agreement” – Kuwait Breaks OPEC Production Freeze Back in late February, when crude prices had just hit a 13 year low, one catalyst unleashed a furious short-covering rally: a WSJ report which cited a delayed SkyNews interview with the UAE energy minister, according to which OPEC would freeze, […]
China Goes Full “Minority Report”, Creates “Pre-Crime” Program
China Goes Full “Minority Report”, Creates “Pre-Crime” Program By now, the world is largely familiar with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s fabled “Tigers and Flies” campaign. Since taking office in 2013, Xi has embarked on an ambitious effort to root out party corruption and ensure that the directives passed down from on high in the Politburo […]
Why Helicopter Money Can’t Save Us: We’ve Already Been Doing It For 8 Years
Why Helicopter Money Can’t Save Us: We’ve Already Been Doing It For 8 Years There’s a lot of talk going around these days about “helicopter money.” For those unfamiliar, it’s billed as a kind of last Keynesian resort when ZIRP, NIRP, and QE have all failed to boost aggregate demand and juice inflation. For instance, HSBC […]
China: A 5-Year Plan And 50 Million Jobs Lost
China: A 5-Year Plan And 50 Million Jobs Lost Arnold Genthe San Francisco , Chinatown. The street of the gamblers at night 1900China never had an actual economic model or growth model. It simply printed an obscene amount of money, especially after 2008, and used it to build factories, 30-story see-through apartment blocks and highways into nowhere […]
Peak oil in the South China Sea (part 1)
Peak oil in the South China Sea (part 1) The recent deployment of missile launchers and jet fighters on Woody Island of the Paracel islands have put the spotlight on the South China Sea (SCS). Fig 1: The 200 mile Economic Exclusion Zone claimed by China around Woody Island and the overlapping 108 nm range of the HQ-9 SAM […]
2008 Revisited?
2008 Revisited? NEW YORK – The question I am asked most often nowadays is this: Are we back to 2008 and another global financial crisis and recession? My answer is a straightforward no, but that the recent episode of global financial market turmoil is likely to be more serious than any period of volatility and […]
The Market Has Lost Faith In Our Board, Bank Of International Settlements Laments
The Market Has Lost Faith In Our Board, Bank Of International Settlements Laments The BIS’ Claudio Borio was vindicated in January – and it was a long time coming. When last we checked in with Claudio, it was December and the bank’s Head of the Monetary and Economic Department was busy explaining what may befall […]
Plunging Manufacturing Numbers Mean That It Is Time To Hit The Panic Button For The Global Economy
Plunging Manufacturing Numbers Mean That It Is Time To Hit The Panic Button For The Global Economy We haven’t seen numbers like these since the last global recession. I recently wrote about how global trade is imploding all over the planet, and the same thing is true when it comes to manufacturing. We just learned that […]
Japan Hits Demographic Tipping Point With First Official Population Decline In History
Japan Hits Demographic Tipping Point With First Official Population Decline In History As troubling as Japan’s deflationary, and now negative interest rate, economic quagmire is, the biggest threat facing Japan has little to do with its balance sheet and everything to do with its demographics, for the simple reason that not only is Japan’s population […]
