China is trying to stimulate bank lending – but it also has longer term problems.
The pace of recovery from the COVID shock differs across major advanced economies. In contrast to Europe and Japan, U.S. GDP exceeded its pre-COVID level in...
China caution weighs on Asian equities Wall Street enjoyed an outsized session of gains overnight as hot money flocked back into the global recovery trade on...
Click here to read the previous gold trends article. After soaring to an all-time high of US$2,058.40 per ounce during 2020, gold has faced headwinds in...
BofA Saw Biggest "BTFD" Inflows Since 2017 As Buybacks Soared... But The Window Closes On Friday Over the weekend, when we published Goldman's detailed explanation for...
Stocks Soar On Optimism Omicron Is A Dud As Traders Focus On Growing China Stimulus U.S. index futures rallied, led by gains for Nasdaq 100 contracts,...
Mainstream Economists Are Struggling To Hide The Incoming Economic Collapse Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, For many years now there has been a contingent of...
The Euro$ curve inversion of 2018 wasn’t an isolated case by any means. Along with all the other “bond market” stuff, these together had been a...
Mish: Fauci And Biden Are Medical Hypocrites & A Political Disgrace Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Among the key reasons for mistrust of vaccinations are...
Today, the New York Fed’s Center for Microeconomic Data released its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit for the third quarter of 2021. Overall debt...
The euro has started the week quietly and is trading just below the 1.13 level. German Factory Orders slide It wasn’t a great way to begin...
Light yellow line is the 10-year Government of Canada bond yield, orange line is the 2-year bond yield: Over the past week, Omicron fears have triggered...
At the risk of over-simplifying, there seem to be three sources of dynamism in the investment climate: Covid, the Federal Reserve, and market positioning. The last...
Futures Rebound Fizzles On Slowing iPhone Demand, Omicron Fears U.S. index futures regained some ground alongside Asian markets while European stocks slumped to session lows in...
Omicron Could Cause Supply Chain Crunch And Inflation To Worsen, OECD Warns Before the US follows Europe by ordering more lockdowns as a preventative measure to...
I'm working madly to finish The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level. This is a draft of Chapter 21, on how to think about today's emerging...
Three strategic defense stocks to buy as China and Russia seek to expand their territorial claims at the expense of other nations should continue to find...
#CKStrong Fed Chair, Jerome Powell finally admitted today there is too much stimulus demand (in the macro context) in the global economy and the Fed will...
What Is a Recession in Simple Terms?Just as corporations experience general phases of growth and contraction, known in sum as their business cycle, the economy also...
This sour/soar stuff goes back many years. The last time we went through the same hysteria (if for different reasons), everyone said the global economy was...
Beijing Capitulates: Urges Local Govts To Unleash Debt Flood As Cities Begin Backstopping Property Developers Despite the best efforts by South African doctors to temper the...
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Investors concerned about new Covid variant For months now the main topic of conversation in the markets has been inflation. Is there too much of it,...
In 2020, gold-backed exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows ballooned to an impressive 877 tonnes, marking the largest one year intake in ETF history. Investor appetite was fueled...
What Americans Say About Rising Prices This Thanksgiving By Cara Ding, Steven Kovac, Jackson Elliott, Michael Sakal, Allan Stein and Jannis Falkenstern of Epoch Times On...
Peeling The Economic Onion Will Bring On The Tears Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, Unless you have the fortitude of a Greek God,...
Futures Drift Higher In Quiet, Holiday Session US equity futures rose (ahead of a cash session that is closed for Thanksgiving holiday), European stocks were mixed...
- by New Deal democratThe first two of four data releases this morning were corporate profits for Q3 and jobless claims for last week.Corporate profits, a...
Futures Slide As Dollar Jumps, Yields Rebound Ahead Of Massive Data Dump For the third day in a row, US equity futures have been weighed down...
Services Sector Unexpectedly Weakens In November As Input Prices Hit Record High After a mixed picture in October (manufacturing weaker, services stronger), preliminary November data was...