China and Covid fears affect markets, with Asian stocks mostly down, and the FTSE 100 falling on the open. Brent crude has fallen back and is...
Inflation Or Recession Authored by Daniel Lacalle, While many market participants are concerned about rate increases, they appear to be ignoring...
Today's Energy Crisis Is Very Different From The Energy Crisis Of 2005 Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, Back in 2005,...
By Adam Hamilton 2022.11.18 The battered major gold miners’ stocks rocketed higher with their metal in recent weeks, showing signs of life. That vertical...
In 1715, France was on the verge of collapsing. Taxes were raised to unprecedented levels to pay for war losses. France began defaulting on its outstanding...
The rollercoaster investment landscape of 2022 continued to fly off the rails last week with the news that FTX, one of the largest crypto exchanges led...
The release this morning of October Producer Price indices brings yet more evidence that the inflationary pressures sparked by multi-trillion dollar Covid...
Why is inflation regarded as bad news? What kind of damage does it do? Popular commentators maintain that inflation causes speculative buying, which generates...
2022.11.11 Since the end of WWII, the US dollar has been used as the world’s reserve currency, accounting for about half of global trades, loans and...
The major asset classes continued to recover in the trading week through Friday, Nov. 11, based on a set of ETF proxies. The lone exception: a...