As the eurozone spins out of control and Britain considers leaving the European Union, this is a good time to recall some of the debates
As the eurozone spins out of control and Britain considers leaving the European Union, this is a good time to recall some of the debates
Another Monday, another set of “surprisingly” bad economic numbers. A few representative headlines: China manufacturing prices decline for 18th straight month Oil prices fall 5%
Regular contributor Michael Pollaro offers three more charts which tell a story that’s both disturbing and apparently misunderstood by a lot of mainstream analysts. The
If 2015 was the year in which no investment strategy worked, 2016 is looking like the year in which all economic policies fail. Already, at
A too-strong currency is, in theory, supposed to make it harder to sell things to cheap-currency countries, thus crimping corporate profits and by implication pretty
Years (actually decades) ago I lived in a New York University grad student dorm that housed mostly elite kids from other countries. Sons of African
One of the questions on analysts’ minds lately is whether stock prices can keep moving up when corporate sales and profits are falling. But the
This weekend’s Paris attacks, occurring in the middle of one of history’s largest mass-migrations, has the feel of uncharted territory. But it’s actually an eerie
Portugal has entered a phase change, with potentially huge ramifications. After handing a parliamentary majority to a coalition of leftist (i.e., anti-austerity, anti-euro, anti-NATO) parties,
Wow. Portugal just did something extraordinary. In its most recent election, parties of the left — anti-austerity, anti-business, mistrustful of the euro and other extra-national
Next week we’ll find out if the longest-ever will-they-or-won’t-they drama involving a virtually insignificant quarter-point interest rate change will amount to anything. But either way,
For about a decade there, Brazil was the Latin American country that got it right. Under a socialist but apparently reasonable government they kept their
A month ago China’s stock bubble was bursting and Greece was imploding. Yet the US Fed, in a violation of both headline sentiment and common
Since its inception, critics of the eurozone have been pointing to its incomplete nature — everyone uses the same money but keeps their own national
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