Argentina has been taking measures to fight inflation since last year, when prices rose 47.6%, battering consumers' spending power and dampening President Mauricio Macri's popularity
Gold rigging is as evil as the expropriation of occupied Europe. How can the gold rigging ever stop? Here are the most likely ways...
When banks take a bigger share of the economic pie, labor, investment activity, corporations and shareholders suffer.
Can monetary policy be conducted in a way that benefits all households even in a world of substantial heterogeneity?
70% of investors surveyed expect a global recession to start in the second half of 2020 or later...
The major drivers of high U.S. corporate profit margins are unsustainable and "now under threat", which will eventually result in much lower equity prices, Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, said on Wednesday in a report.
Big banks are increasingly coming to a reckoning that making mortgages is no longer the best business to be in, if earnings reports from the most recent...
U.S. market regulators are proposing to test whether keeping large corporate bond trades secret for two days will spur more buying and selling.
If we throw the Eurozone into the Papusa, we see that the Eurozone has negative credit impuse growth, but is better than China or the USA.
In the meantime, get ready for more disinflation (or deflation) and slow growth. The central banks are stuck and there’s no way out.
Italian stocks and government bonds sold off on Tuesday after a Bank of Italy official said the country’s deficit would rise to 3.4 percent of GDP in 2020...
For some context, this is the biggest YTD reduction in the China trade deficit on record. Trump winning? Or too soon?
Industrial production was negative for the first quarter since the third quarter of 2017, and that could signal weaker economic growth than some economists expect.
Confirming its initial estimates and providing an uncomfortable signal for the European Central Bank (ECB).
We got more signs that the economy is slowing down this week. And yet pundits and policymakers keep insisting everything is great.In his latest podcast, Peter Schiff says he thinks people like Donald Trump and Larry Kudlow know deep down that things aren't that great, but they want to keep kicking the can down the road for political reasons.
SD Midweek Update: The ultimate head fake is underway with the stock market, but gold & silver are the ultimate inverse head-fakes. Here's why...
The German government cut its forecast for 2019 economic growth for the second time in three months on Wednesday, reflecting a worsening slowdown driven by a recession in manufacturing
Does history rhyme? We will only know in hindsight, but here’s what I’m seeing: Negative divergences galore on new highs. In fact it all reminds me very much of what I saw last year. On…
Larry Fink of Blackrock suggested the risk for stocks is for a melt-up as opposed to a meltdown. The rationale: Underinvested cash that…
Powell and some of his colleagues have been perplexed and perturbed by the Fed’s failure to convincingly raise inflation to its 2 percent target.