What is the invisible foundation of the narrative about the depreciation of the US dollar? Let us recall that it is a key goal of the Trump 2.0 administration to address the fiscal derailment and the persistent trade deficits. The Winners and the Losers This leads to the following reasoning: if those who hold the …
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The U.S. is not “investable” – The withdrawal of funds from Scandinavia, and the Debt avalanche
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Donald Trump said out loud what normally goes unsaid, and in doing so, revealed a deep and dangerous vulnerability that the entire system has been trying to hide. Specifically, in an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo, when asked about the possibility that European countries might respond …
Inflation is slowly and painfully killing the middle-income class
In a speech in July, Harvard University professor Gregory Mankiw laid out with brutal honesty what needs to happen to end the unsustainable accumulation of debt in the United States. The options are five: Logic dictates that some combination of these will be inevitable. These potential solutions are common throughout the developed world. Through a …
Mammoth debt,War, the AI bubble bursts
Artificial intelligence, which was presented as the “revolution that will save the world economy,” is now turning into a nightmare for investors and businesses. At the same time, geopolitical tensions are escalating… A view from the future In this context, Vladimir Putin has achieved significant successes in the war against Ukraine and has begun to …
The ECB is secretly rescuing France, while in 2010 it threw Greece into the jaws of the markets
The European Central Bank (ECB), especially after the Greek adventure, has a long history of intervening in government bond markets in order to contain yields during periods of turmoil in the debt market. However, this is not an exercise of monetary policy but an intervention by the Brussels deep state. The most characteristic — and …
Gold will reach $6,000 in spring with a boost from central banks
After an 18-month bull run that took it to a record high of $3,999/ounce on Monday, October 6, investors are wondering the obvious: How long will the precious metal’s rally last? The short answer is yes — at least as long as the same macroeconomic forces that fueled its rise remain active, Thanos Chonthrogiannis, an …
Massive collapse due to public debt crisis: G5 of G7 could collapse
Some of the world’s largest economies are at the center of a bond market storm, as investor concerns grow that governments are making the necessary reforms to reduce uncomfortably high levels of debt. And how could they, after all, as growing social inequalities and the emergence of other major problems such as immigration lead electorates …
The mother of crises comes… from the USA – The graph of terror
The global economy is one step away from a serious crisis, which will start again in the United States but this time will concern the country’s excessive public debt, warns Trust Economics in a report. The American economy is facing a significant turning point, which does not just concern interest rates or debt, but the …
Bretton Woods III from Russia, China and India with a Chinese wall of gold, energy and commodities
Beyond the fading glory of the G7 and G20 — groups of states formed in the aftermath of World War II and now mired in stagnation and demographic decline — a new alliance has emerged on the geoeconomic map: the BRICS+ group. This coalition — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — represents a …
The dollar as a reserve currency is killing the US economy
The advantage of the US having the dollar as the world’s reserve currency is that it creates demand for dollars. Countries accumulate dollars and tend to invest them in US bonds, keeping US borrowing costs low. The curse, especially since Nixon ended the convertibility of the dollar into gold (1971), is that there is no …