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Gary North
Posted on December 17, 2014
HISTORIC LOW The ruble hit a record low of 80 to the dollar — down a catastrophic 24 percent — before making a modest improvement to trade at 72 to the dollar by late Tuesday afternoon. The market plunge defied a whopping pre-dawn interest rate hike of 6.5 percentage points by Russia’s Central Bank aimed […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 12, 2014
This gets little publicity. For two years, the European Central Bank has been shrinking its monetary base. Europe as a whole is close to recession, but prices are not falling. Keynesian analysts are fit to be tied. The ECB is supposed to inflate, like other central banks. It isn’t. This Washington analyst has little good […]
Continue reading →Posted on August 11, 2014
Back in 2005, Raghuram Rajan, then economic counselor at the International Monetary Fund, stood up in front of the annual meeting of prominent economists and bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyo., and gave a presentation that his listeners could never have expected. The U.S. investor community was reveling in the high growth and stable financial conditions […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 3, 2014
Rich people in France are pulling up stakes. They will escape the tax man. (Unlike the USA, if you are not living in France, you do not pay taxes to the French government.) Young people in France who want to start businesses say they want to leave France. A lot of them will. France’s taxes […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 8, 2014
Whether or not the European Central Bank will take the quantitative-easing plunge is on the minds of investors around the world, including in the U.S. But in the end, the decision, or at least it’s timing, could revolve around German holiday-makers and the prices they pay for their spring vacations, argues Standard Bank’s Steven Barrow. […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 22, 2014
Youth unemployment has created “a generation at risk” according to the International Labor Organization, with worldwide youth unemployment forecast to rise to 12.8 percent by 2018. But these headline figures do not necessarily tell the real story given the discrepancies among different parts of the world. In the developed economies, the youth unemployment rate – […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 20, 2013
The TIC report, issued monthly by the U.S. Treasury, indicates that the central banks of Japan and China recently started selling Treasury debt. I have created a quick link for subscribers. You can check this at any time. Type in this address, and click: http://bit.ly/TICreport. This month, the dumping of U.S. Treasury bonds by foreigners […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on April 4, 2013
The Bank of Japan has announced a quantitative easing (mass inflation) QE program that matches Bernanke’s: $75 billion a month in purchases of Japanese government bonds. This is just under $1 trillion a year. But Japan’s GDP is only $6 trillion — 40% the United States’ GDP. This is way beyond Bernanke. For the Bank […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 12, 2012
So, you think your capital is safe. You think it would take a law to freeze your assets permanently. Silly you. All it takes is an executive order signed by the President. Here is the most recent example. It applies to all Americans: individuals and corporations. The way this legal precedent is being set is […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 18, 2012
The government knows how to make important facts really boring. Consider this: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total November exports of $177.8 billion and imports of $225.6 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $47.8 billion, up from $43.3 […]
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