It's tough to pay for an Olympics when 95% of your supposed "wealth" has vanished.
If the recovery is real and as strong as the “data” suggests… why are Central Banks engaged in the most aggressive stimulus in history?
It’s easy to criticize the Fed for its failures, because its successes have been only one in number: kicking the can down the road. But we should spare a thought for the […]
The danger is not so much complacency about markets but complacency about central banks.
One of the features of 2016 so far has been the appearance of QE or Quantitative Easing for corporate bonds with the ECB announcing a start in March and the Bank of England announcing a start earlier this month. This was a particular volte-face for the Bank of England which has had both the ability…
Alongside Gold & developed market Sovereign bonds, developed market equities and bonds have been some of the hottest trades this year.
China is at mounting risk of a Japanese-style "liquidity trap" as monetary policy loses traction & the economy approaches credit exhaustion, forcing a shift towards Keynesian fiscal stimulus.
As investors squabble over when the Federal Reserve might lift short-term interest rates, central bankers meeting in Wyoming this week are likely to be debating what they might do if a future downturn forces them to put monetary policy into reverse.
By abolishing cash, they seek to lock everyone’s money holdings into the fractional-reserve banking system & make the system completely run-proof for all time.
Fed Vice Chairman Fischer was seen as supporting a rate hike this year but doubts remain over whether the central bank will follow through with a rate hike.
The focus on the Fed raising rates masks the global easing in monetary policy.
How a scheme to help Russians secretly funnel money offshore unravelled.
JPMorgan Chase’s abuses of its own customers are so vast that Chaitman and Gotthoffer had to create a Wheel of Misfortune to catalog the scams for ease of viewing by the public.
In 1960, the city of Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen. Nearly two million people lived there, and it had the highest per capita income in the United St…
Still extremely depressed: Down and well below expectations: Highlights Weakness in orders and employment were unfortunate themes of last week’s Empire State and Philly Fed reports and likewise headline the manufacturing PMI report. The PMI, which is based on a nationwide sample of manufacturers, slowed by 8 tenths in the August flash to 52.1, a …
...here's a look at the US housing market which has almost regained it's 2007 bubble valuations.
How bad was the housing and mortgage credit bubble burst? New home sales are finally back to 1995 levels.
Within the top echelons of the world’s precious metals refineries, a number of names stand out due to their sheer scale and pedigree, as well as their global brand recognition […]
When World War I began, many analysts believed that the international gold standard would keep the war short.
If the IMF is going to add Gold to the SDR's, then all the SDR's that are out there, would have to have Gold added to them