European stocks rose on Monday, Chinese shares surged, recovering all their post-coronavirus losses and S&P and Nasdaq futures jumped to new all time highs as investors took encouragement from the Asian country's monetary (if not fiscal) pledges to
Back on Monday, when analysts and investors were desperately seeking clues whether China has managed to reboot its economy from the 2-week long hiatus following the Lunar New Year/Coronavirus pandemic amid the information blackout unleashed by the co
Technocracy is making a great play for Britain with PM Boris Johnson going green as a Techno-Populist. Second, I analyze China and the coronavirus from a Technocracy point of view.
The coronavirus outbreak could directly affect the availability of many essential goods that are made in China. Here's a list of some of those products.
International Man: It's that time of the year when a bunch of out-of-touch, self-anointed elites gather at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
International Man: It's that time of the year when a bunch of out-of-touch, self-anointed elites gather at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
One of the greatest moral dilemmas that has been creeping into the everyday activities of specialists working with coal, oil and in some cases even gas...
• https://www.paulcraigroberts.orgPaul Craig Roberts
61 years ago Walter M. Miller Jr. published A Canticle for Leibowitz. The story spans thousands of years as humans rebuild civilization after a devastating nuclear war.
Mimicking the concept of a Black Swan event, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is warning that a 'Green Swan' climate event could trigger a financial crisis.
"We will reach a tipping point when investors will awake to the rising tide of defaults and downgrades," he wrote in a letter from the World Economic Forum meeting. "The timing is hard to predict, but this reminds me a lot of the lead-up to the
DoubleLine Capital's Jeffrey Gundlach has already express his views on the Federal Reserve's retreat into manipulation of both the financial markets, and the media narrative, via the central bank's continuing "ad hoc" operations in the repo market.
The world's richest 2,153 people controlled more money than the poorest 4.6 billion combined in 2019, while unpaid or underpaid work by women and girls adds three times more to the global economy each year than the technology industry, Oxfam said o
Whether or not the 2010s were a "lost decade," one thing is clear: many countries fell short of their potential, possibly squandering their last best shot of registering strong GDP growth. In the decade ahead, demographic realities will catch up to C
• https://www.paulcraigroberts.orgPaul Craig Roberts
The first thing to understand is that it is not a trade deal. It is Trump backing off his tariffs when he discovered that the tarrifs fall on US goods and American consumers, not on China.
Davos 2020 is next week, and it will center on how capitalism must change to address climate change. We had a preview of this yesterday, with Larry Fink's annual CEO letter explaining how Blackrock will start voting its proxies based on how well ma
With President Donald Trump signing a historic first phase trade deal with the world's second-largest economy, it is more important than ever to have the full facts without the spin.
Germany's economic growth rebounded slightly in the fourth quarter but slowed last year to its weakest level in nearly six years as trade tensions escalated, exports plunged, and a steep downturn in the automotive industry led Europe's largest ec
Sources familiar with the Phase 1 trade deal told Reuters China has agreed to purchase $80 billion of additional manufactured goods from the U.S. over the next 24 months, as part of the "Phase 1" trade deal that's expected to be signed on Wednesday.
The procession of news through the week – namely that chronicling the aftermath of the targeted drone strike and killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani – advanced with an agreeable flow.
"World War Three!" is trending on social media the day I return to work after two weeks off deliberately not reading any news for once: ironic given my reputation for being bearish about geopolitics.