Laying the Foundations
As the Yellen Fed inches painfully towards taking its first ‘data-dependent’ steps to raise rates (albeit with the promise that such a process will…
We Will All Go Down Together
Source: http://truesinews.com/2015/07/09/we-will-all-go-down-together/ When we last wrote, some brave analyst at a Chinese brokerage was making headlines by talking of there being at least another…
Timeo Danaos (et Romanos)
It is now largely overlooked, but the 19th century had its own precursor to EMU in the shape of the Latin Monetary Union, set…
ECB Excesses
With last week’s report of monetary developments in the Eurozone, we again have evidence both of Draghi’s monetary monomania and of the sheer futility…
Monday Morning Macro
[This piece first appeared here: http://truesinews.com/2015/04/27/monday-morning-macro/] Though the punditocracy has become much more aware of the sheer scale of China’s equity bubble in recent weeks,…
The South (China) Sea Bubble
[The original can be seen here http://truesinews.com/2015/04/14/the-south-china-sea-bubble/] The first hard data release of the month for China was hardly guaranteed to reassure. Two-way trade in…
Mario Draghi – Prime Broker to the Universe
[This article first appeared here http://truesinews.com/2015/04/10/mario-draghi-prime-broker-to-the-universe/] When even the eminent lawyer, Christine Lagarde, interrrupts her incessant calls for more ‘stimulus’ to confess that yes, peut-être, we ought to…
Midweek Macro Musings
[This first appeared here http://truesinews.com/2015/04/08/midweek-macro-musings/] Here we present one of a series of brief runs-though of the salient events of the past week or so….
The Ghost of ’37
[Editor’s Note: The original can be found here http://truesinews.com/2015/03/26/the-ghost-of-37/] With the Fed supposedly steeling itself at last to remove a little of its emergency…
Global M
[You can find the original article here http://truesinews.com/2015/03/11/global-m/] As part of our analytical process, we frequently consult our proprietary estimate of global money supply, something we construct by…