What Do These Two Charts Have In Common?
The premise of a currency war is that by devaluing its currency a country is able to sell things overseas more cheaply, which gooses its
The premise of a currency war is that by devaluing its currency a country is able to sell things overseas more cheaply, which gooses its
The term gets tossed around a lot, but the meaning and consequences of a “currency war” aren’t intuitively clear to most people. Especially confusing is
Today the European Central Bank acknowledged that the currency it manages is being sucked into a deflationary vortex. It responded in the usual way with,
Switzerland, as everyone knows by now, has slipped out the back door of the drunken orgy that is the modern financial system. And the other
In the sound-money community there is universal skepticism about the Fed’s plan to stop monetizing the world’s debt. Hardly anyone thinks they’ll go through with
Twelve short months ago, the immediate future looked like a lock. Overvalued equities had to fall, ridiculously-low interest rates had to rise, and beaten-down precious
To say that gold is in a bear market is to misunderstand both gold and markets. Gold isn’t an investment that goes up and down.
It’s been quite a month. In late October Japan, despite a year of fairly aggressive quantitative easing, dropped back into recession and concluded that even
With US QE about to end, the rest of the world faced the prospect of another “taper tantrum” financial crisis, one that this time around
The dollar is on a tear. And the world is scrambling to figure out what it means. Beginning with the always-interesting Martin Armstrong in a
By now it’s an article of faith within the sound money community that most major countries have borrowed so much that they’re left with only
Excerpted From The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops by James Turk and John Rubino: In a very real sense, it is fractional
Last year the world kind of forgot about Europe. After ECB head Mario Draghi vowed to “do whatever it takes” to get the Continent growing,
In one sense, energy doesn’t matter all that much to what’s coming. Once debt reaches a certain level, oil can be $10 a barrel or
From Chapter 15 of The Money Bubble, by James Turk and John Rubino: Banking didn’t start out as a reckless, parasitical plaything of a moneyed
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