In the American stock market, there are risks of creating a bubble and extreme valuations, at unprecedented levels, due to the over-optimism of the market participants. The barometer index of the US stock market S&P 500 has broken a series of records this year, regaining strength in recent sessions after a weak April. However, the …
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Analyses and articles for world financial markets
The FED is on alert: In case a banking domino of bankruptcies begins
It seems that in the US the time has come for a wave of consolidation in the banking industry. A key program that kept US banks afloat ended last month, and everyone knew what that would mean. By the last Friday of April, the FDIC had taken Republic Bank’s assets and had already arranged to …
Weak development and the Global financial system with multiple problems
After the great financial crisis of 2007 – 2008, regulatory authorities, worldwide, are engaged in continuous efforts to remove, in every way, financial risks. However, mistakes on their part are not lacking. A typical example is the crisis of regional banks in the USA, which was triggered by Silicon Valley Bank, which until that time …
Debt Colonies End: Non-Western Rating Agencies for the Global South
As the BRICS group seeks to develop alternatives to the Western financial system, the creation of credit rating agencies independent of the West could be on the agenda at their annual summit in October. In addition to developing an alternative payment system for trade transactions in local currencies, the Global South’s credit rating agencies could …
Gold: Russia’s Strategic Monetary Superweapon
In history, gold and silver accompanied the rule of different empires. They made possible the financing of conquests, but also the very rule of the conqueror in the vassal regions of the planet. If even today, gold coins, even legal tender, no longer accompany states’ ambitions for geopolitical sovereignty, we see that central banks’ gold …
After the end of the next financial crisis – the end of fiat currencies and Bitcoin’s revolution
Liberalism considers the security of property sacred. The traditional refuge of all is gold. But has there been a revolutionary change that gives us an alternative solution? And of course we are referring to bitcoin. Many criticize the protocol without fully understanding how it works, despite the fact that they understand the need for sound …
Wall Street’s AI bubble is growing and it’s about to burst
Everyone knows and says there is a bubble on Wall Street associated with artificial intelligence and its high-tech stocks, but no one knows how much longer it will grow or when it will burst. For example, many believe that the stock of Nvidia Corp. is a bubble. This is based on the fact that the …
Why is it a criminal mistake to bail out bankrupt banks?
Silvergate Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank collapsed like dominoes between March and April 2023. The United States Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) proceeded with a previous intervention in order to stop the transmission of the crisis to the regional banks and to the …
The Painful lessons of a three-decade Stock Market Disaster
Japan’s Nikkei 225 is on the verge of surpassing its all-time highs of 1989, ending a 34-year drought for investors in the Land of the Rising Sun. That in itself is cause for celebration on the one hand but also a deeply flawed way of understanding how markets work – both in Japan and everywhere …
Currency and Debt markets indicate US will increase number of Wars and Dollar Depreciation
The US national debt, which is over 120% of GDP, is a mathematical deterrent to real, not debt-based, growth. Debt-based “growth” is not real growth, but more debt. The war on inflation, which FED Chairman Powell famously described as temporary, is not only far from over, but the worst wounds (ie the pains of inflation) …