Unintended Consequences, Part 2: Easy Money = Overcapacity = Trade Wars
It’s unclear what China was thinking when it was borrowed all those trillions to quadruple its capacity to make steel, cement and other basic industrial
It’s unclear what China was thinking when it was borrowed all those trillions to quadruple its capacity to make steel, cement and other basic industrial
Corporate profitability is one of the canaries in today’s financial coal mine. If companies are making more money each year they tend to hire more
If easy money has stopped working, then what’s left? Massive deficits, of course. Pressure is building on governments around the world to increase spending and
Savers are the obvious victims of the past few years’ plunge in interest rates. But there are other casualties, including money market funds, which have
This morning, US existing home sales plunged and the Chicago Fed’s national activity index turned negative. Both are obvious signs of a slowing economy. Anticipating
When historians sort out this era of once-a-decade financial bubbles, they’ll marvel at how dissimilar the drivers of each boom were. The junk bonds of
The Bank For International Settlements just released a report stating that the spread of negative interest rates hasn’t caused the world to end. From this
The Bank For International Settlements just released a report stating that the spread of negative interest rates hasn’t caused the world to end. From this
Peggy Noonan, former Reagan administration speech writer and current Wall Street Journal pundit has, like most of her peers, been wondering what’s gotten into the
Once upon a time, falling interest rates were great for banks. A lower cost of capital gave lenders access to cheap raw material while causing
Well that didn’t take long. Two weeks of falling share prices and the European and Japanese central banks caved. First the ECB promised new stimulus
New Age monetary policy has begun to resemble the form of insanity in which a patient repeats the same behavior while expecting a different outcome.
The UK’s Guardian newspaper, of Edward Snowden leaks fame, just published a good overview of the world’s recent financial missteps titled The world economic order
The point of competitive devaluation, aka currency war, is that a cheaper currency gives a country several advantages over its trading partners, leading to better
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