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Big Companies, Huge Problems

28/01/2016(0)
    Apple is far from the only iconic US company that’s signaling a global slowdown. Three more are in the news today: “Caterpillar warns equipment sales still falling ... Read More
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Global Stocks Enter Bear Market: One-Fifth Of All Worldwide Stock Market Wealth Is Already Gone

25/01/2016(0)
It’s official – global stocks have entered a bear market. On Wednesday, we learned that the MSCI All-Country World Index has fallen a total of more than 20 percent ... Read More
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Out of the mouths of babes…

22/01/2016(0)
Parents will tell you the most difficult questions to answer sometimes come from their children. Here are some apparently innocent questions to ask of economists, journalists, financial commentators and ... Read More
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Could China’s Housing Bubble Bring Down the Global Economy?

21/01/2016(0)
Who’s going to buy the tens of millions of empty flats held as investments? I’ve been writing a lot about China recently because it’s becoming increasingly clear that China’s ... Read More
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The Financial Apocalypse Accelerates As Middle East Stocks Crash To Begin The Week

18/01/2016(0)
It looks like it is going to be another chaotic week for global financial markets. On Sunday, news that Iran plans to dramatically ramp up oil production sent stocks ... Read More
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Austrians get (some) mainstream credibility

15/01/2016(0)
Well, well: who would have believed it. First the Bank for International Settlements comes out with a paper that links credit booms to the boom-bust business cycle, then Britain’s ... Read More
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Multipolarity: The Next Step After Globalization?

14/01/2016(0)
The world economy during the last few decades has experienced “globalization,” a broad and admittedly vague term which refers among other factors to a rise in the ratio of ... Read More
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The China Syndrome: The Coming Global Financial Meltdown

12/01/2016(0)
All the phantom wealth piled up in China’s boost phase is now melting down, and the China Syndrome will trigger a meltdown in global phantom assets. The 1979 film ... Read More
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Bear Market: The Average U.S. Stock Is Already Down More Than 20 Percent

12/01/2016(0)
The stock market is in far worse shape than we are being told.  As you will see in this article, the average U.S. stock is already down more than ... Read More
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The Challenges for the Cypriot Economy for 2016

11/01/2016(0)
Assessing the current state of the Cypriot economy one could say that the year 2015 was undoubtedly another difficult year with several problems still remaining unresolved. One could also ... Read More
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