Anyone hoping this week’s G-20 meeting would yield some manner of “Shanghai Accord” to revive sluggish global growth, pull the global economy out of the deflationary doldrums and calm jittery…
In case you didn’t know, President Muhammadu Buhari has an economic management team and it is headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. As Nigeria reclines into serious economic challenges, pressures…
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“In view of the circumstances it appears likely that this is a xenophobic act.” That’s from a police spokesperson who spoke to dpa after a dead pig with Angela Merkel’s…
One week ago, we reported that even as traders were focusing on the daily headline barrage out of OPEC members discussing whether or not they would cut production (they won’t)…
By EconMatters A positive week for risk assets, we consolidated recent gains and even finished the week higher in most risk assets. Gasoline had a stellar week, and points to…
We’ve written quite a bit about the decline of America’s once proud manufacturing industry which is now but a shadow of its former self and long ago ceded its place…
That the dramatic upheavals of war, pestilence and environmental collapse can trigger social disorder and revolution is well-established. Indeed, this dynamic can be viewed as the standard model of social…
“Do as I say, not as I do” is the clear message of hypocrisy spewed forth by former US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson this week. Having presided over the largest…
Submitted by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, Democracy is vastly overrated. It’s not like the consensus of a bunch of friends agreeing to see the same movie. Most often, it boils…