The reshoring phenomenon in global manufacturing is often exaggerated. The Bank of Canada surveyed ...
China: What To Do About It? By Gordon G. Chang, via The Gatestone Institute, What does China really want? Well, China really wants to rule planet...
"Things Are Out Of Control" - There Is A Shortage Of Everything And Prices Are Soaring: What Happens Next In Wednesday's press conference, Jay Powell confirmed...
After Rolling Out Blue Carpet, Biden Begs Mexico To Stop Migrants 'I'll reverse Trump's immigration policies' he said. 'You'll have a pathway to citizenship,' he said....
Inflation Watch: Beware The Ides Of March Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, President Biden has now had his $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed into law,...
Building A New Home? Soaring Lumber Prices Adds $24,000 To New Construction Build Lumber prices have hit $1,000 per thousand board feet, an all-time high in recent...
Overview: The global capital markets are reversing hard into the weekend. Yesterday's rally lifted US benchmarks to a record high fizzled even though most Asia Pacific...
Africa was on the cusp of a revolutionary economic transformation before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and the ensuing crisis just underlined the urgency of that process....
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...
In the wake of its departure from the European Union, the United Kingdom will have the opportunity to enter into new free trade agreements (FTAs) with...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his second pandemic budget for the Conservatives.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his second pandemic budget for the Conservatives.
Intercapitalist rivalries ebb and flow and shaped modern history more than many may realize. Recall that Nixon unilaterally severed the dollar's last ties to gold, not...
'Unwelcoming' Food Inflation Outpaces Incomes With Destabilization Risks For Emerging Markets Food prices are undeniably soaring faster than inflation and incomes around the world. As everyone's favorite...
Chaos In Steel Market As Manufacturers Battered By Shortages, Soaring Prices The virus pandemic has upended global supply chains and produced shortages of certain commodities, sending...
As Lumber Prices Hit Record High, Homebuilders Urge Biden To Intervene By Robert Dalheim of Woodworking Network, Lumber prices have hit $1,000 per thousand board feet,...
Farm Bankruptcies Drop 7% In 2020 By John Newton and Gwen Battram of Michigan Farm News, Recent higher commodity prices and ongoing ad hoc financial support...
Overview: After several attempts, the euro has pushed above $1.22, and the Australian dollar has surpassed $0.8000 as the greenback remains under broad pressure against the...
At the end of World War I, J. A. Schumpeter coined the term “thunder of history” to describe the historical roots of fiscal systems. Indeed, wars,...
Asian markets take a holiday break US inflation data surprised markets overnight (including the author), by printing lower than expected. That took the wind out of...
DoubleLine Warns Events Are In Motion To Remove Dollar As Reserve Currency Authored by Bill Campbell via DoubleLine Capital, For every action, there is an equal...
The Modi government is more sceptical about free trade deals than previous Indian administrations, as evidenced by its decision not to join the RCEP trading bloc.
Ludwig von Mises’s 1944 book Bureaucracy is an investigation into the dramatic expansion of bureaucratic management in the United States.1 Bureaucracy mushroomed in accordance with Woodrow...
Hazelton Capital Partners commentary for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2020. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Dear Partner, Hazelton Capital Partners, LLC...
2021 may feel more like an extension of 2020 rather than a fresh start. But take heart-there is plenty of good news out there. Q4 2020...
2021: More Troubles Likely Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, Most people expect that the economy of 2021 will be an improvement from...
Steel Prices Are Exploding To Record Highs One of our readers writes in that a client just got a letter from US Steel: "Dear valued client,...
Yellen says more stimulus on its way Wall Street got back to business as usual overnight, buying equities and selling the US dollar as Janet Yellen,...
Asian equities edge higher on stimulus story Incoming Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made all the right noises as far as Wall Street was concerned at her...
The Chinese yuan weakened against its US currency rival to start the trading week as economic growth fell below market expectations. Despite the gross domestic product (GDP) falling short of fourth-quarter estimates,...