Now What?
byThis piece, by Doug Noland, originated here http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/weekly-commentary-now-what.html September 18 – Reuters: “The world’s leading central banks are facing the risk that their massive…
Economics
Eugen von Bohm Bawerk: From Miracle to Cataclysm – why the commodity bust will last for years
bySource: http://bawerk.net/2015/09/11/from-miracle-to-cataclysm-why-the-commodity-bust-will-last-for-years/ The Chinese Jīngjì qíjī, wirtschaftswunder, keizai no kiseki, milagro económico or whatever you want to call is neither a miracle nor distinctly…
Demonising digital monopoly: an attack on our futures
byWritten by Vishal Wilde for The Cobden Centre. ‘Should digital monopolies be broken up?’ is the title of an article by the Economist in…
BIS Quarterly Report: “If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.”
byThe latest BIS quarterly report can be found here: http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1509.htm Relative to the IMF, World Bank and national central banks around the…
Zero Hedge: Mom And Pop “Will Probably Get Trampled”: Alliance Bernstein Warns On Bond ETF Armageddon
byRight up until China threw the financial world into a frenzy by devaluing the yuan right smack in the middle of a stock market…
The Scope For Public-Private Partnership Monies, Competing Currencies, Trade And Credit Market Benefits
byThe following was written for The Cobden Centre by Vishal Wilde. The Eurozone is in dire need of monetary reform in order to…
David Stockman: Why Hedge Fund Hot Shots Finally Got Hammered
bySource: http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/why-hedge-fund-hot-shots-finally-got-hammered/ The destruction of honest financial markets by the Fed and other central banks has created a class of hedge fund hot shots…
Rolling boulders uphill
byAs symbols of futility go, that of Sisyphus takes some beating. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was captured by the gods after having freed humanity…
Eugen von Bohm Bawerk: That 70s Show – Episode 3
bySource: http://bawerk.net/2015/08/22/that-70s-show-episode-3/ In the first episode we showed how the US became an unsustainable service sector based economy from the 1970s onward when service sector employment…
Eugen von Bohm Bawerk: That 70s Show – Episode 2
bySource: http://bawerk.net/2015/08/15/that-70s-show-episode-2/ In Episode 1 we showed how the US labour market changed dramatically from the 1970s on back of excess money printing which allowed Americans to…