A decision by a new Greek government to leave the eurozone or a forced exit of Greece would be even worse than the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, said Barry Eichengreen, an economic historian at the University of California…
New vehicle sales in the US have been on a tear in 2014, rising to 16.5 million units, the highest since banner year 2006. General Motors CEO Mary Barra sees “still plenty of room for the auto industry to grow.”…
Podcast: Play in new window | Download David Morgan, Alasdair Macleod, & Bill Murphy join The Doc & Eric Dubin this week for a special Precious Metals Round Table edition of Metals & Markets, discussing: Is JPMorgan sourcing silver by the warehouseload- directly from the miners via…
OUTLOOK 2015 – Uncertainty, Volatility, Possible Reset, Diversify! Introduction Gold – Positives and Negatives Ultra Loose Monetary Policies Globally Risk of Bail-Ins in 2015 and Beyond Currency and Gold Wars Eurozone Debt Crisis Again – ‘Grexit’ and ‘PIIGS’ Global Debt…
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In 1967, the rock group Buffalo Springfield recorded a song titled For What It’s Worth which speaks not just to the late 1960s but to the present. Consider the opening lines: There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly…
Reporting from Hong Kong, we discuss the ‘social tragedy’ of subdivided flats and the booming market for ‘dim sum’ bonds. In the second half, Max speaks to Dr Fernando Cheung Vice Chairman of the Labour Party and one of the…
Originally appeared @ Bitcoinomics.Net Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter 1Broker is a simple and easy to use website which allows you to trade gold, silver and other markets via contract for differences (CFDs), which represent contracts between…
Savage Slaughter In Paris Shows West and Freedom Itself Vulnerable The savage attacks on the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, in Paris leaving 12 dead yesterday shows how vulnerable western societies and economies are to the twin threats of terrorism and…
It will be interesting to see how the secretive Irish 1%’s Slush fund NAMA and the IBRC (the State owned rebranding of Anglo Irish Bank) will respond to the US Drumm insolvency ruling? Is it a side show for the…
Let’s consider some examples of potential asymmetric-warfare tactics as they relate to the price of oil. The world has habituated to the never-ending undeclared war over ownership and access to hydrocarbons. Now we are entering a new phase of asymmetric…