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You Think the Global Economy Is Brightening? Beware: The Big Hit Is Yet to Come
You Think the Global Economy Is Brightening? Beware: The Big Hit Is Yet to Come Relief is spreading among economic analysts and stock market experts. Energy prices are decreasing noticeably. The energy supply this winter seems secure; in Europe, government support for consumers and producers is available if needed. China is turning away from its […]
Why the Global Economy Is Unraveling
Why the Global Economy Is Unraveling Global supply chain logjams and global credit/financial crises aren’t bugs, they’re intrinsic features of Neoliberalism’s fully financialized global economy. To understand why the global economy is unraveling, we have to look past the headlines to the primary dynamic of globalization: Neoliberalism, the ideological orthodoxy which holds that introducing market […]
How We Got Here: the Global Economy’s 75-Year Stumble to the Precipice
How We Got Here: the Global Economy’s 75-Year Stumble to the Precipice Not only will there not be a recovery, but there can’t be a recovery, as those brittle extremes have been lost for good. How did the global economy end up teetering on a precarious financial precipice? To formulate a cogent answer, let’s take a […]
The Real Reasons Behind the Global Pandemic Lockdown, Part 2
The Real Reasons Behind the Global Pandemic Lockdown, Part 2 In Part 2 of The Real Reasons Behind the Global Pandemic Lockdown, I discuss and build upon the ideas from Part 1, in which I discuss the continuing misinformation being spread about the pandemic, the various creators of the pandemic narrative that includes not only State […]
Has the Global Economy Finally Exhausted its Good Luck?
Has the Global Economy Finally Exhausted its Good Luck? All of these guarantees and redundancies are as illusory as the “unsinkable” technologies of the Titanic. The past three decades of global growth are rarely attributed to luck: it’s all the result of our brilliant fiscal, monetary and trade policies. Those in positions of wealth and power […]
IMF Slashes Global GDP Forecast For 6th Consecutive Time, Warns “Climate Change” Will Hit Economy
IMF Slashes Global GDP Forecast For 6th Consecutive Time, Warns “Climate Change” Will Hit Economy After the IMF cut its global economic outlook for 2019 to 2.9% in October, the lowest since the financial crisis, and warned that global trade growth would be “close to a standstill”, moments ago the IMF once again downgraded its […]
Four Collision Courses for the Global Economy
Four Collision Courses for the Global Economy Between US President Donald Trump’s zero-sum disputes with China and Iran, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s brinkmanship with Parliament and the European Union, and Argentina’s likely return to Peronist populism, the fate of the global economy is balancing on a knife edge. Any of these scenarios could lead […]
Why The Next ECB Stimulus Plan May Fail
Why The Next ECB Stimulus Plan May Fail In June 2014 I wrote an article called Draghi’s Plan does not fix Europe. In that article, I explained that the structural challenges of the eurozone -high government spending, excessive tax wedge, lack of technology leadership and demographics- were not going to be solved by a round of […]
Trust is On Trial in Europe and the World
Trust is On Trial in Europe and the World “It seems that if there was any truth to our language, ‘trust’ would be a four-letter word.” Joel – “Risky Business” Trust is the most important aspect of human endeavor. Without trust there can be no interaction. No communication. No friendship. No love. No Commerce. The […]
Trump’s Vanity Will Destroy The Global Economy
Trump’s Vanity Will Destroy The Global Economy Last year I asked the question “Will Trump torch the global economy on the bonfire of his vanity?” A year later we have the answer. It’s a resounding, “Yes.” I wrote after Trump pulled out of the JCPOA: Donald Trump wants regime change in Iran. His cancellation of […]
The Sorry State of the World Economy
The Sorry State of the World Economy Data released in January paint a bleak picture of advanced-economy prospects. Even if some emerging economies – which face serious challenges of their own – manage to pick up some of the slack, the world economy will remain encumbered by the combination of economic interconnectedness and political balkanization. […]
Global Economy Flashes Red As China Shipping Rates Collapse
Global Economy Flashes Red As China Shipping Rates Collapse A dramatic and sudden slowdown in the rate at which numerous commodities are being shipped to China suggests slowing demand for raw materials in the world’s second-largest economy, and signals a wider economic slowdown globally looms. “Recent shipping data has turned negative with charter rates across […]
These New Numbers Are Telling Us That The Global Economic Slowdown Is Far More Advanced Than We Thought
These New Numbers Are Telling Us That The Global Economic Slowdown Is Far More Advanced Than We Thought We continue to get more confirmation that the global economy is slowing down substantially. On Monday, it was China’s turn to surprise analysts, and the numbers that they just released are absolutely stunning. When Chinese imports and […]
China Trade Data is Nail in the Coffin of Global Economy
China Trade Data is Nail in the Coffin of Global Economy Chinese exports and imports even though China’s trade balance with the US rose. Eamonn Sheridan at Forex Live has some interesting comments on China’s December Trade Balance. The export figures are a focus and they are poor indeed. But save some space in the […]
Stocks are falling after a fresh set of horrible data out of China reignited worries about the global economy
Stocks are falling after a fresh set of horrible data out of China reignited worries about the global economy Another day, another weak set of Chinese data.REUTERS/Darley Shen A fresh set of troublingly poor data out of China has investors running for cover on Monday, with all major stock indexes around the world losing ground […]
