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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 [...]
Continue reading →Did you know that there is a tight correlation between the completion of the world’s tallest skyscraper and either a recession or a depression within a year or two? Well, there is. Dr. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute published an article on this in 2005. Worldwide, real estate peaked in 2006. Then came the [...]
Continue reading →Keynesians learn nothing. Here is an article on how great financial repression is when compared with liberty. Voters in the West have accepted this for 75 years. Financial repression is the name economists give to the various ways that governments encourage or force investors to buy sovereign debt at unattractive prices. Economists Carmen Reinhart and [...]
Continue reading →China and Japan have taken the first step in abandoning the dollar. I have been waiting for this for years. Now it has happened. Japan and China will promote direct trading of yen and yuan without using dollars and will encourage the development of a market for companies involved in the exchanges, the Japanese government [...]
Continue reading →Bill Bonner’s Daily Reckoning ran this. The IRS has extended its long arm to foreign banks. The FATCA law (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) will force banks across the globe to collaborate with the IRS. An explanation of the huge repercussions this legal precedent will have on banks and banking clients. Once FATCA — Foreign [...]
Continue reading →China is the world’s #2 economy after the USA. It has the world’s largest real estate bubble. That bubble has popped. The losses will be enormous. China is also facing price inflation, especially of food. Why? Because of its monetary inflation. The central bank has been goosing the economy with fiat money for a decade. [...]
Continue reading →The politicians in Europe are planning another summit meeting on December 9. The more summits they have, the more it becomes clear that they have no solution. If they did, they would need only one summit. Matthew Lynn nails it: “Every week we get another big search for a smart-sounding scheme to rescue the project. [...]
Continue reading →The big banks of Europe are facing disaster if Italy defaults. Unless the European Central Bank starts inflating, and soon, Italy will default. Will Europe let the banks go under? I doubt it. The leaders will finally save the system by bailing out the banks. That is the problem. David Weidner explains. If you understand [...]
Continue reading →Each nation’s government owes money to foreign banks. The foreign banks are threatened by a default — an “Iceland event.” The biggest debtor is the USA. If our government defaults, the West’s economy collapses. Which nation is most at risk today of foreign governments’ defaulting? France. France is Italy’s biggest creditor. But Italy is close [...]
Continue reading →John Mauldin monitors the markets. He is the author of Endgame. He also used to be my business manager. He is less apocalyptic than I am, but is is scary enough. Here is his latest assessment: I am constantly asked what my biggest worry is. What is the largest monster I think I hear in [...]
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