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The financial war escalates
July 3rd, 2019
Behind the scenes, the financial war between America and China is escalating dangerously into a war to secure global financial resources. At a time of growing liquidation of dollar assets by foreigners, the US Treasury’s internal analysis will highlight ...
Gold prices steadied on Wednesday
May 15th, 2019
Gold prices steadied on Wednesday, having retreated from a one-month peak hit in the previous session as optimism surrounding trade talks between Washington and Beijing soothed investor concerns, boosting global stocks and the dollar. Spot gold was steady at ...
Cyber wars and all that
May 3rd, 2019
Behind the Huawei story, we must not forget there is a wider financial war being waged by America against China and Russia. Stories about China’s banks being short of dollars are incorrect: the shortage is of inward capital ...
Currencies threatened by a credit crisis
February 15th, 2019
In this article I draw attention to the similarities between the current economic situation and that of 1929, and the threat to today’s unbacked currencies. There is the coincidence of trade protectionism with the top of the credit cycle, ...
Trade wars – a catalyst for economic crisis
February 1st, 2019
In my last article I used a proven accounting identity to show that the end result of President Trump’s trade tariffs would be to increase the trade deficit, assuming there is no change in the savings rate. The savings ...
Gold reaches seven-month high as dollar struggles
January 30th, 2019
Gold climbed to a seven-month high on Tuesday and stocks were back on the up too, as investors dug in for three days of political and economic drama and a blizzard of big tech earnings, starting with Apple later. ...
Huawei global chief financial officer arrested in Canada
December 6th, 2018
Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver, where she is facing extradition to the United States, Canada’s Department of Justice said Wednesday. The arrest is related to violations of U.S. sanctions, a person familiar with the ...
Gold is setting up for a nice first-half rally
November 28th, 2018
Precious metals investors don’t have much to console them these days. Just about the only bright spot is the nice, though ephemeral, pop in the gold/silver price that seems to happen every January. Sometimes it persists for six or so ...
European shares likely to open mixed as pound plunges on Brexit divide
November 16th, 2018
European stocks may open on a mixed note Friday after the pound suffered its biggest one-day loss against the euro since October 2016 amid a deepening crisis for UK Prime Minister Theresa May. Four ministers, including Brexit Minister Dominic ...
The biggest of big pictures
October 26th, 2018
I have had a request from Mrs Macleod to write down in simple terms what on earth is going on in the world, and why is it that I think gold is so important in this context. She-who-must-be-obeyed ...
