The demise of the U.S. dollar has been a staple of the financial media for decades. The latest buzzword making the rounds is de-dollarization, which describes the move away from USD in global payments. De-dollarization is often equated with the demise of the

How would extraterrestrial anthropologists characterize Earth’s dominant socio-economic system? It’s not difficult to imagine their dismaying report: “Earth’s economy glorifies waste. Its economists rejoice when a product is disposed as waste and replaced with a new product. This waste is perversely

Since evidence of RBS Global Restructuring Group (GRG) deliberate “Dash for Cash” strategy of targeting and destroying viable and profitable SME businesses for profit was broken by Buzzfeed and BBC News on Monday 10 October, several myths have emerged in

In an economy based on borrowing, i.e. credit a.k.a. debt, loan defaults and deleveraging (reducing leverage and debt loads) matter. Consider this chart of total credit in the U.S. Note that the relatively tiny decline in total credit in 2008

The possibility that Japan might launch helicopter money stimulus sent global stock markets soaring in a paroxysm of pleasurable anticipation. But exactly what is helicopter money and what connection does it have to stock valuations, if any? Broadly speaking, helicopter

The Keynesian gods have failed, and as a result we’re in the eye of a global financial hurricane. The Keynesian god of growth has failed. The Keynesian god of borrowing from the future to fund today’s consumption has failed. The

‘NHS hospitals face pressure from regulators to cook their books and downplay the size of their deficits, a finance director turned whistleblower has said. In anonymous evidence given to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the finance chief told MPs he and his colleagues are concerned that national regulators are pressurizing NHS providers […]

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