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    Japan: Exports drop for 14th month running in January
Feb 20, 2020 - 07:49:30 PST
Yen-denominated merchandise exports fell 2.6% in January in year-on-year terms, after dropping 6.3% in December.
    Gold Just Hit a Seven Year High on Fed and Virus Fears
Feb 20, 2020 - 07:13:34 PST
Gold reached a new seven-year high as investors sought safety assets on concerns the coronavirus outbreak will hurt global growth and amid speculation the Federal Reserve will ease monetary policy before year-end.Prices extended gains above $1,600 an ounce to the highest since February...
European Union leaders will clash this week over the EU’s 2021-2027 budget as Britain’s exit leaves a 75 billion euro ($81 billion) hole in the bloc’s finances just as it faces costly challenges such as becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
    Social Security Cannot Survive in Its Present Form
Feb 20, 2020 - 06:33:49 PST
The biggest political issue over the next fifteen years may be changing conditions that affect how much Social Security can pay. This would include the decline in the ratio of those who are paying into the system to those collecting. Once this was as much was some forty-two to one.
    CBO Director: Spending Must Eventually Be Curtailed
Feb 20, 2020 - 06:24:49 PST
"It can't be done overnight. It has to be done overtime. But with interest rates low, that gives us time," Phillip Swagel said Thursday.
    Inflation By Another Measure
February 20, 2020
The powers that be insist that inflation is low. In fact, the central bankers at the Federal Reserve tell us that low inflation is one of the reasons they can keep interest rates artificially low. But everyday people who go to the store each week smell a rat. We know our dollar doesn't stretch as far as it used to. If inflation is so low, why do prices seem to keep going up?
The only logical explanation is maybe inflation isn't as low as the pundits keep telling us.
A discussion of all that's moving the market today including the coronavirus, Morgan Stanley buying e-Trade and more.
    Why Governments Hate Secession: Mises
Feb 20, 2020 - 06:13:57 PST
When the Soviet Union began its collapse in 1989, the world witnessed decentralization and secession on a scale not seen in Europe since the nineteenth century.
The Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index in February jumped to 36.7 after registering 17 in the prior month.
The CDC has been working with the health-care sector to prepare for a possible pandemic outbreak in the United States. The coronavirus threat comes at an already busy time for most U.S. hospitals.
Which will outperform in 2020? Gold? Or Equities?
Peter Schiff joined a moderated debate on the subject at the Orlando Money Show. Peter teamed up with Rick Rule to argue for gold, against Louis Navellier and Jeffrey Saut, who contend the stock market is still the place to be. Mark Skousen moderated the debate.
As the leading stock market indices continue higher — and the big tech names keep climbing — a couple of fear gauges are warning of excess.
    Gold at Record High in Euros, Watch the Yen!
Feb 20, 2020 - 04:36:27 PST
Fed monetary printing and US deficits are out of hand.
t’s too early to call an end to the euro’s rout, even after its worst start to a year since 2015.Money managers from Aberdeen Asset Management to Pinebridge Investments expect more weakness in the common currency.
    Risky Debt is Starting to Look the Same in Junk World
Feb 20, 2020 - 04:26:58 PST
Junk bonds are starting to look a little like leveraged loans in a new sign of investor fever for higher-yielding debt.
    Millennial Debt Is Rising in These U.S. Cities
Feb 20, 2020 - 04:20:31 PST
Millennials living in certain U.S. metro areas are seeing increases in non-mortgage debt, according to a study by LendingTree, at a time when debt accumulated in American households is hitting record highs.
Even as they battle to limit the impact of the deadly coronavirus, Chinese regulators are pressing ahead with key reforms aimed at building global investor confidence in the country’s capital markets...
The Japanese yen fell to a 10-month low on Thursday, extending its previous day's slide that saw the currency breach a key technical level against a broadly strengthening dollar.
China cut the benchmark lending rate on Thursday, as widely expected, as the authorities move to lower financing costs for businesses and support an economy jolted by a severe coronavirus outbreak.
Uncertainty in setting monetary policy. The report dedicated a box to discussing the Fed’s concern about the future effectiveness of its current approach to conducting monetary policy.