by Tyler Durden Anyone who was hoping for a quiet end to the week is currently having a panic attack, as first China announced new tariffs on the US, then Powell’s J-Hole speech came and went, […]
Tyler Durden, The brief rebound in the Yuan is over as a barrage of headlines from China and US spark renewed concerns at Beijing’s ability to withstand Washington’s war. Just when you thought the trend had […]
by Tyler Durden Authored by Tom Luongo, Lost in all of the geopolitical noise are some basic concepts of economics. It’s no secret that China’s economy has been built by their openly mercantilist economic policies. Mercantilism is, […]
BEIJING: Warning US President Donald Trump to desist from initiating “trade wars” or acting on his poll pledges of hiking tariffs against Chinese goods and declaring Beijing as currency manipulator, China today said that both […]
by Tyler Durden While we admit that “suddenly” is not exactly the right word to describe China’s selling of US Treasurys, which has been steadily liquidating its UST reserves over the past two years, something […]
by John Rubino The whole “market economy” thing is turning out to be a little trickier than China’s dictators expected. To set up the story: After the 2008 crash the country borrowed about $15 trillion […]
by John Rubino Just as ultra-low interest rates start to seem normal, the markets decide otherwise. US 10-year Treasury bonds yielded about 1.9% in April and are now above 2.20%: And the trend reversal isn’t […]
By The Automatic Earth Jack Delano. Engine taking on coal at Illinois Central Railroad yard, Chicago Nov 1942 Amidst the heightened media hysteria that expresses itself in claims of an “increasing burden of proof” of Putin and […]
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