By Daily Bell Staff The Daily Bell May 16, 2016 China No Enemy of the West as Recent Regulatory and Diplomatic Moves Show China asks Britain for advice on creating financial super-regulator … China has asked Britain for advice on plans to create a financial super-regulator, as it looks to improve financial […]
By Nick Sorrentino Against Crony Capitalism February 8, 2016 Money is Fleeing the Ultimate Crony Capitalist State, China, and it is Destabilizing China is not such a good place to keep money medium to long term as it turns out. The wealthy in China are “deeply distrustful” of policy makers. As such […]
By Michael Snyder Economic Collapse Blog January 7, 2016 7 Percent Crash Causes Emergency Shutdown Of Stock Markets In China For The 2nd Time In 4 Days Did you see what just happened in China? For the second time in four days, a massive stock market crash has caused an emergency shutdown […]
By Michael Snyder Economic Collapse Blog January 5, 2016 Stock Markets All Over The World Crash As We Begin 2016 The first trading day of 2016 was full of chaos and panic. It started in Asia where the Nikkei was down 582 points, Hong Kong was down 587 points, and Chinese markets […]
By Daisy Luther The Organic Prepper December 30, 2015 Why (and How) to Know the Origin of Your Meat As often occurs, members of Congress snuck some crusty little barnacles onto the budget bill that would have been hard to pass on their own. One of those was repealing the law that […]
By Michael Snyder Economic Collapse Blog December 10, 2015 The Global Commodity Crash Tells Us That A Major Deflationary Financial Crisis Is Imminent If we really are plunging into a deflationary global financial crisis, we would expect to see commodity prices crash hard. That happened just before the great stock market crash […]
By Against Crony Capitalism November 17, 2015 China welcomes IMF backing to make yuan world reserve currency We have said in the past that the real economic “run for the hills” moment is the moment the dollar loses world reserve currency status. If that were to ever happen all sorts of things […]
By Brendan Brown Mises.org November 3, 2015 How Beijing and the West Work Together to Manipulate the Global Currency War From reading the commentaries you might have imagined that the process of a currency winning international reserve status depends on getting the IMF seal of approval. At least that seems to be the story […]
By Matt Kwong CBC News September 24, 2015 Obama snubs Waldorf-Astoria hotel amid Chinese espionage fears U.S. delegates check out of NYC hotel as Chinese takeover raises security flags For the first time since the 1930s, the Waldorf-Astoria’s swank Presidential Suite is missing something major during the annual UN General Assembly: A U.S. president. […]
By Bill Bonner Bonner & Partners September 21, 2015 Cor-ROO-ption! Cor-ROO-ption! PARIS – “Cor-ROO-ption! Cor-ROO-ption! Cor-ROO-ption!” It only took a couple of minutes to realize our taxi driver had lost his mind. “You can’t trust anybody in Buenos Aires. Not the government. Not the police. Not the taxi drivers.” Especially not the taxi […]
By Eric Margolis LewRockwell.com August 30, 2015 Beijing Bingo My father, a New York financier, used to call dubious stocks or bonds, “Chinese paper.” Last week, we saw a blizzard of Chinese paper, both in China and around the world. As manager of a sizeable investment portfolio (an unwelcome second job from […]
By Peter Schiff Euro Pacific Capital August 16, 2015 The Shot Not Heard Around the World China’s recent move to devalue the yuan has sent shock waves through the global financial markets and has convinced most observers that a new front in the global currency wars has begun. The move has caused many observes […]
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts.org August 3, 2015 Washington’s Fifth Columns Inside Russia and China It took two decades for Russia and China to understand that “pro-democracy” and “human rights” organizations operating within their countries were subversive organizations funded by the US Department of State and a collection of private […]
By Bill Bonner Bonner & Partners July 10, 2015 Don’t Feed the Zombies … LONDON – Want to know what happened yesterday? Read the newspapers! There are three big news stories today… No. 1: The Greeks are making a “last ditch” effort to get more money from their creditors. After countless delays, […]
By Bill Bonner Bonner & Partners June 29, 2015 Greece Is the Canary in the Coal Mine This is an “Amber Alert” day in the markets. “Greeks Line Up at Banks; ATMs Run Dry” was the headline over at the Drudge Report. Versions of it ran throughout the financial media. Greece is […]
