Economics

Bank of England Chief Carney argues for a financial New World Order*. Nobody Notices

Economics, General Thought / By

Epochal shifts are occurring in the financial landscape, high level discussions on how global business, finance and even politics will have to change in the future are taking place and remarkably this has been revealed by Mark Carney, the Governor of the World’s oldest Central Bank, who has proposed a new Synthetic Hegemonic Currency, to …

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Troubling Systemic Risk of investors favourite “Low Risk” Bond Investments

Economics, Markets / By

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme”, Mark Twain is alleged to have said and, reflecting on the history of financial markets and economics, it is hard to argue with the sentiment. Indeed it is to be hoped the previous post has demolished the notion that an unthinking allocation to “bonds” will automatically make …

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The Façade is Collapsing. Astonishing Market Panic is almost unnoticed…….Nobody told you?

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Since the 2008/9 GFC manyTrillions of Dollars, Euros, Pounds, Yen and Yuan have been created out of thin air to prop up a façade, a Potemkin Village if you like, of growth and prosperity, even as the many have often found life increasingly challenging, in the shadows of financial hyper-reality. Slowly reality has been stripping …

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Peak Irrational Exuberance ? Part 1: US Stock Markets out Boom the Tech Boom

Economics, Markets / By

There is no denying it US shares have demonstrably provided a rather remarkable performance over the last decade, as the following chart, taking us back over 20 years, highlights: Click/Tap to Enlarge Looking back towards the end of 1998 the impact of the Russia/LTCM (Long Term Capital Management) crisis, which nearly brought down Wall Street …

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