The Fed and the looming capital market meltdown
The Federal Reserve system made a future financial panic or… Read More »The Fed and the looming capital market meltdown
The Federal Reserve system made a future financial panic or… Read More »The Fed and the looming capital market meltdown
In this blog, we present the anatomy of a financial… Read More »The anatomy of a financial crisis
The coronavirus has delivered a devastating blow to a fragile… Read More »Special report on surviving the economic collapse
The global collapse would bring in its wake massive unemployment, poverty and the re-structuring of our whole social and economic order.
As shown by the ghastly February PMI prints from China, the coronavirus is about to hit the global economy like a sledgehammer. It has already caused serious disruption in production, air travel and commerce worldwide. And more is on the way.
Howe…
The economic calm which has succeeded the turbulent conclusion to 2018 was abruptly shattered on the 16th of September. On that day, rates in the repo markets spiked by 248 basis points to more than double the overnight lending rate of the…
One thing has been bothering us for six years. How can so many economists and economic commentators dismiss the ever-increasing market meddling of central banks so lightly?
The first time we warned about this possible threat to financial markets w…
We have been monitoring China closely since March 2017. We were one of the first to show that China had driven the global business cycle since 2009 and that the rem…
For some reason, the dire situation of European banks is not causing further alarm. This is strange, as it is the exact place where the new global banking crisis is likely to start.
What makes it even stranger is that recession is approaching the …
There is renewed hope in the markets after central banks, most-recently the ECB and China, have added easing measures. The working narrative is that these will, once again, renew global growth and allow governments, corporations and consumers to go e…