Illinois' Record-Setting Pension Debt Jumps To Over $300 Billion Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Illinois’ pension debt, already the nation’s biggest, grew...
The euro edged higher against the dollar, reversing a four-day losing streak boosted by the positive investor sentiment and falling US Treasury yields. The EUR/USD currency pair rallied higher, fueled by the positive German trade...
Real yields have surged and inflation expectations have fallen, posing the most significant challenge to equities since the pandemic sell-off almost a year ago. This is...
The Japanese yen is almost unchanged in the Tuesday session. Currently, USD/JPY is trading at 108.90, up 0.06% on the day. Dollar punches past 109 The...
The South African rand surged against its US counterpart on Tuesday as emerging market currencies benefited from renewed optimism in the global economic recovery and financial markets. But macroeconomic data painted a mixed...
The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services to those that are already operating completely, or at...
Real yields have surged and inflation expectations have fallen, posing the most significant challenge to equities since the pandemic sell-off almost a year ago. This is...
The Narrative Of Inflation Amid Depopulation Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, Next to language, money is the most important medium through which modern society...
Overview: The attack on Saudi Arabia's largest crude terminal reverberated through the capital markets, where sentiment was already fragile, despite the lack of disruption. Brent rose...
These Are The 'Greenest' Countries In The World From widening wealth disparity to the environmental ramifications of economic development - the growing focus on global sustainability...
One of the few industries that have benefited from the COVID-19 crisis is online finance. Around the world, the pandemic has forced consumers to adopt digital...
Money And Statistical Delusions Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, "I can prove anything with statistics, except the truth" -- Lord Canning, c. 1819 Does Canning’s...
Today's Stock Market Is A Casino Powered By Easy Money And Boredom
It’s time to check in with the macro picture, to get an idea of just where markets are headed in the coming months.
In two Defining Ideas articles in 2009, “Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits? I Am” and “Furman, Summers, and Taxes,” I criticized Lawrence Summers and Jason Furman,...
The ECB meeting is the most important calendar event in the week ahead. It is true that the US reports February CPI figures, but the base...
Escobar: The Shape Of Things To Come In China Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, It’s Lianghui (“Two Sessions”) time – the annual ritual of the...
Real yields have surged and inflation expectations have fallen, posing the most significant challenge to equities since the pandemic sell-off almost a year ago. This is...
The Feedback Loop Between The Fed & The Elite Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, There is a belief the stock market is “making everyone rich.” The reality...
It’s not often that the head the world’s most important central bank recognizes that inflation is heating up while promising not to do much about it...
There is a belief the stock market is "making everyone rich." The reality is that only a small percentage of the economy owning the majority of...
OPEC+ suprises with extension to cuts Last night was heavy on surprises leading to plenty of drama. OPEC+ wrong-footed markets by leaving their production cuts intact...
No country in Africa has been spared by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the hard-fought economic gains of recent years are under threat everywhere. In fact, in...
New US GDP estimates for the first quarter point to a strong acceleration in growth over last year’s Q4 increase, based on a set of recent...
The plan is to achieve growth and level up without while sharply cutting the deficit.
Economic growth across the continent is actively reshaping Africa’s historically underdeveloped insurance market according to a recent report by McKinsey and Company, which outlines the trajectory...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his second pandemic budget for the Conservatives.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his second pandemic budget for the Conservatives.
The plan is to achieve growth and level up without while sharply cutting the deficit.
Kass: The Bull Market In Complacency & "First-Level Thinking" Is Back Authored by Doug Kass via Seabreeze Partners, By following the path of least resistance and...