The lessons learned from the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 seem not to have become commonplace for the operation of the financial system. The turmoil of the past year has shown that further progress is needed in a number of areas to ensure that banks are never too big to fail. It is noted that …
Author: TRUST ECONOMICS
Inflation persistent
With monetary and economic policy deadlocked, the White House is now officially throwing in the towel and admitting that the fight against inflation has been lost – almost ruling out monetary easing as evidenced by the fact that the Federal Reserve Reserve despite strong political pressures due to the election cycle kept interest rates unchanged. …
The real picture of the US economy is bleak
The global financial system is gradually preparing for an earthquake of historic proportions which this time will not be caused by an internal crisis – like in 2008/2009 – but its cause is related to the significant shifts in the geopolitical power balances with the end of globalization under American hegemony. This is not something …
The next financial crisis in Europe will start from France and Italy
In recent years, a new type of crisis has been dynamically emerging in Europe: a crisis of the European social and political model with profound consequences for fiscal and financial stability. France’s problem The big problem starts with exceeding the budget deficits in France and Italy, over 7% and over 5% for 2024 respectively. These …
Hard austerity is coming with over-indebtedness and high inflation
The era of low interest rates and “easy money” is over, despite the dominant narrative in the international financial press of a new round of monetary policy easing that will return economies to pre-pandemic health crisis status and the prophecies of monetary policy makers policy that set the benchmark for monetary policy easing next June …
The “bubble” of the Global Public Debt of 313 trillion dollar will cause an Economic shock
The skyrocketing global debt has become the main problem for the global economy – even if this is being hidden for obvious reasons by the global political elite and the systemic media. Public deficits for anyone with even the slightest understanding of the workings of the economy can neither act as reserves for the private …
The scenario that led to a bullish rally in Gold and Bitcoin
Investors, watching dark clouds loom over the global economy due to ongoing geopolitical upheavals, are hedging: Gold continued to break record prices on Friday, March 8, trading at $2,183 an ounce, and this was accompanied by from a more dramatic Bitcoin rally. Gold outperformed Bitcoin in 2020 and 2021, during the Covid crisis. This time …
The nightmare Scenario in Economy, Markets, with Inflation and Bubbles
In early 2002, gold was around $300. The primary goal was to preserve wealth. The Nasdaq had already crashed by 67%, but, before bottoming out, it lost an additional 50%. The total loss was 80%, with many companies going bankrupt. In 2006 the Great Financial Crisis began In 2008, the financial system found itself minutes …
FED – ECB: Inflationary landmine with interest rate cuts – Trump victory in the US is the key scenario
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) argued that a pick-up in rent inflation—the index rose unexpectedly sharply in January’s CPI—was due to a shift in the data series that could either mean that the change was a structural shift in values or indeed an error which could be fixed at a later stage. Conclusion; No …
Its perpetual public debt as Greece’s dependency factor
The public debt (Central Government Debt) amounted to €406.5 billion at the end of 2023 and is increased compared to the previous year by €6.2 billion, according to the latest Bulletin of the Public Debt Management Organization (in Greek-ΟΔΔΗΧ) . For this debt, the Greek State paid €6.5 billion in interest in 2023. The Greek …