US President Donald Trump’s recent statements are part of a strategy he has followed throughout his business career. More specifically, in interviews and public appearances last week, Trump emphasized, among other things: Trust Economics emphasizes that the President is simply following the same investment model that made him a billionaire in the commercial real estate …
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China’s Real Estate – A $18.9 Trillion Debt Bomb at the Foundation of the Global Economy
China is facing the most serious economic challenge in its modern history, as the ongoing collapse of the real estate market has triggered an unprecedented debt crisis, exposing the fragile foundations on which the “Chinese miracle” was built. Today, the debts of local governments and their financing vehicles (LGFVs) have soared to 134 trillion yuan, …
Real estate crisis in the US and China creates panic in the global economy
The countdown to the global economy has begun, with the two largest real estate markets on the planet, China and the United States, cracking at the seams and bringing about a new 2008-style financial crisis. We are no longer talking about just a “bubble” that is ready to burst, but about a systemic disintegration. In …
The bursting of a bubble that no one has seen yet
The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 was symbolic of a deep global financial crisis, centered on the housing bubble and subprime mortgages. Increasing natural disasters are straining insurance companies, leading to policy cancellations, rising premiums, and ultimately falling property prices. More and more areas in the U.S. are losing their insurance coverage, which in …
2025 will be a year of shock and awe because of Ukraine – Stocks, bonds and real estate
The geopolitical situation is more precarious than ever in world history due to the crises in Ukraine and the Middle East. The “deep state” in the US, the neocons led by Biden, are doing everything they can to provoke World War III, provoking Russia with missiles from the US and the UK launched deep into …
Central banks are creating poverty with real estate, stock and over-indebtedness ‘bubbles’
Due to loose monetary policy (quantitative easing), financial assets appreciate without being supported by proper fundamentals while real estate becomes investment vehicles and the lower income strata are excluded from ownership. Despite what the conventional narrative about the economy holds, central bank monetary policies are a form of distortive government intervention in the economy. Their …
Towards a new permanent banking crisis, the “bubble” in commercial real estate is bursting
What the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, after the two-day meeting of American policy makers, contained nothing comforting. Notably, he did not cut interest rates, or announce cuts and monetary easing next March – as the market predicted. As a result, markets skidded, the dollar rallied and …
The Alternative Forms of Investment of Small Deposits
As interest rates on traditional banking products have been virtually zero for at least three years, those who used to earn an annual income mainly through time deposits are now required to take the risk of making up for lost interest. Additional pressure is created by the rise in inflation which reduces the value of …