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OPEC is winning the oil war
September 15th, 2015
Oil markets may not balance until late 2016, but supply is finally contracting in a big way. Early last week the EIA confirmed that U.S. oil production was down sharply since peaking in April at 9.6 million barrels per day (mb/d). ...
Big Banks Agree to Settle Swaps Lawsuit
September 14th, 2015
Dozen banks, Markit and International Swaps and Derivatives Association to pay combined $1.87 billion Wall Street’s biggest banks have agreed to a tentative settlement over allegations that they conspired to rig the market for credit derivatives. Twelve banks and ...
Global Markets: Stocks end solid week on cautious note
September 11th, 2015
Stocks stay on track for best week in eight Fed rate decision next week hangs in the balance “Quite a fragile time” – equity fund manager Global stocks around the world slipped into the red on Friday but remained ...
Equity markets and credit contraction
September 11th, 2015
There is one class of money that is constantly being created and destroyed, and that is bank credit. Bank credit is created when a bank lends money to a customer; it becomes money because the customer draws down this ...
Bye Bye Brazil
September 7th, 2015
For about a decade there, Brazil was the Latin American country that got it right. Under a socialist but apparently reasonable government they kept their budgets under control, managed the population shift from farm to city, and developed some ...
The danger of eliminating cash
September 4th, 2015
In the early days of central banking, one primary objective of the new system was to take ownership of the public’s gold, so that in a crisis the public would be unable to withdraw it. Gold was to be ...
Economics of a crash
August 31st, 2015
This month has seen something that happens not very often: it appears to be the early stages of a global stock market crash. For the moment investors are in shock, seeking reassurance and keenly intent on preserving their diminishing ...
Asian Markets Ride Tide of Strong U.S. Growth
August 28th, 2015
Shares in China, Japan continue streak of gains Asian markets rose Friday as renewed optimism about the U.S. economy and China’s recent stock gains offset worries about global growth. The Shanghai Composite Index opened up 1.4%, adding to its ...
Global Selloff Deepens as Stocks Sink With Oil
August 24th, 2015
Equity investors took flight across Asia, sending the region’s benchmark stock gauge toward a bear market and Chinese stocks plunging by the most since 2007 as U.S. futures tumbled. Ten-year Treasury yields dropped below 2 percent. China’s Shanghai Composite ...
China chooses her weapons
August 22nd, 2015
China’s recent mini-devaluations had less to do with her mounting economic challenges, and more to do with a statement from the IMF on 4 August, that it was proposing to defer the decision to include the yuan in the ...
