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Europe gives up on sound money, prepares to join the currency war

03/07/2019(0)
Not so long ago, Europe seemed to have its financial house more-or-less in order. German government spending was actually falling. Industries that had been nationalized in the socialist 70s ... Read More
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China’s yuan plunges again. Is a currency war coming?

20/07/2018(0)
The yuan weakened almost 1% against the US dollar on Thursday to hit its lowest level in a year. It has now fallen by nearly 8% over the past ... Read More
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A Currency War Battle That Europe and Japan Can’t Afford To Lose

05/05/2016(0)
The dollar is tanking lately. From a high of around 100 in December, the dollar index — which measures USD against a basket of foreign currencies — is down ... Read More
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Welcome To The Currency War, Part 20: Corporate Profits Head South, Stock Prices To Follow?

26/11/2015(0)
  A too-strong currency is, in theory, supposed to make it harder to sell things to cheap-currency countries, thus crimping corporate profits and by implication pretty much everything else. ... Read More
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Even Small, Well-Run Countries Can’t Escape The Currency War

13/11/2015(0)
    The old saying “When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled” captures perfectly the dilemma of the world’s non-superpowers. From Brazil to Thailand to non-eurozone Europe, the currency ... Read More
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China About To Make History — Again

10/08/2015(0)
Any discussion of China has to open with the now-widely-understood fact that the numbers it reports are not to be trusted. Knowing this makes it easy to dismiss claims ... Read More
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China: Major Devaluation Coming

28/07/2015(0)
The whole “market economy” thing is turning out to be a little trickier than China’s dictators expected. To set up the story: After the 2008 crash the country borrowed ... Read More
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Is The Whole World Slowing Down?

06/04/2015(0)
The stats just keep getting stranger and, if you’re a policymaker or an investor, scarier. According to a (now widely publicized) McKinsey & Co study, instead of deleveraging after the ... Read More
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