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Deutsche Bank’s Dire Warning On Global Trade: “The Currency War Is Futile”

March 25, 2016

Deutsche Bank’s Dire Warning On Global Trade: “The Currency War Is Futile” “It’s almost like the timing belt on the global growth engine is a bit off or the cylinders are not firing as they should.” That’s from WTO chief economist Robert Koopman, and it’s a quote we’ve used on a number of occasions. Koopman […]

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World Trade Collapses Most Since Crisis

February 26, 2016

World Trade Collapses Most Since Crisis One question now dominates the global macro discussion: has subdued global growth and trade become the norm in the post-crisis world? That is, have lackluster growth and trade become structural and endemic rather than transient and cyclical? Those are the burning questions that keep central bankers (not to mention […]

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World’s Biggest Containership “Hard Aground” As Baltic Dry Crashes Below 300 For First Time Ever

February 4, 2016

World’s Biggest Containership “Hard Aground” As Baltic Dry Crashes Below 300 For First Time Ever Before this year the lowest level The Baltic Dry Index had reached was 556 in August of 1986 and the highest was in June 2008 at a stunning 11,612. Today saw the freight index hit a new milestone however, crashing […]

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“Zombie Ships” – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Suggests

January 26, 2016

“Zombie Ships” – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Suggests One glance at The Baltic Dry Index’s collapse is all that most need to see the painful state of the global shipping industry. However, as gCaptain reports, reality is even worse as the boom in so-called “zombie ships” suggests there is no recovery in […]

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Why the Black Hole of Deflation Is Swallowing the Entire World … Even After Central Banks Have Pumped Trillions Into the Economy

January 24, 2016

Why the Black Hole of Deflation Is Swallowing the Entire World … Even After Central Banks Have Pumped Trillions Into the Economy Deflation Threatens to Swallow the World Many high-powered people and institutions say that deflation is threatening much of the world’s economy … China may export deflation to the rest of the world. Japan is mired in […]

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Canadian Pacific Warns Of “Tremendous Pressure”, “Strong Headwinds” For Economy

January 21, 2016

Canadian Pacific Warns Of “Tremendous Pressure”, “Strong Headwinds” For Economy One week ago, when we explained why “Things Just Went From Bad To Worse For U.S. Railroads,” we said that “the rail industry is about to be slammed with a dramatic repricing, one which is only the start and the longer oil prices remain at […]

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Global Trade In Freefall: China Container Freight At Record Low; Rail Traffic Tumbles, Trucking Slows Down

November 4, 2015

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 […]

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