It is useful to remember that we got to these very unusual circumstances following three crises - global financial crisis 2008- , unorthodox USA policy crisis 2017-, then the pandemic 2020- . Neither of these 3 crises has fully ended which places ...

World’s Central Banks Adjust to Fed Three-Year Plan: Week Ahead

I live in hope of not having to repeat a number of truths. In this case our interest has to be in the net equity of the US. Total assets are estimated to approach $140 trillion (assumptions may be varied at your whim especially 1) the quality of ...

America’s New Debt Bomb

This window is made of frosted glass and the point about insect wars is lost on me at least. Two issues being addressed seem to be 1) Where is the value of the USD going? - a hardy perennial question and 2) What is driving Chinese economic and ...

The Ant and the Grasshopper: A Window into Macro Part I

The pandemic is the third crisis which the FED has had to deal with since 2008. #1 the GFC from 2008 onwards; #2 the erratic and destructive US administration from 2016 to 2020; and #3 the pandemic itself in 2020. The pandemic was/is a shock on top ...

The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.

Oh. I thought you meant it was Trump's.

Florida Man who Used COVID-Relief Funds to Purchase Lamborghini Sports Car Charged in Miami...

With the pandemic news in negative mode the predictability of forex rates continues to be mired in scenario land. I detect that FF comments activity has slowed considerably. It is tempting to give in to a neverending pessimism. On the positive side ...

U.S. dollar is way oversold, says trader

I can't make sense of your viewpoint. What fundamentals? What news? What chart? And what Indicators?

Europeans Panic About Incoming "2nd Wave" As Catalonia's COVID-19 Outbreak Worsens

The pandemic aside (unforgivable) we might get back to the much bigger issue of what are US priorities? Lincoln's famous paragraphs are appended but my question is not how is the US currently divided? As to the big issues the campaign shows no ...

Former Fed officials urge more efforts to bolster economy

What can relocate with speed in one direction can move with speed in many directions including back to where it came from. Geo-political interference in world markets is hardly new but the wisdom of looking back through history is surely to let the ...

Decoupling US-China supply chains: High tech on the move

Hong Kong has 5 million Chinese population and USA has over 40 million African American population. The Hong Kong population is 0.5% of the Chinese population while the African American population is over 13% of USA population. No doubt the ...

China To Implement Sanctions On US Officials, Entity Over Hong Kong

US public debt now above 100% of GDP or roughly 20% of USD value of USA. OK for now but there is a limit. image

Trump expected to talk about China and Hong Kong at news conference

Sadly this is a closed system model when even traders realise that the world is now much more open and financial flows are global, both lending and borrowing. If there was rising stress in the bond markets then we will see rising interest rates ...

The Fed Is Trapped In QE As Interest Rates Can’t Rise Ever Again

Quite bullish is as convincing as quite bearish. I'm quite sleepy.

Standard Chartered is 'quite bullish' on the Japanese yen

I see from my comment and others' comments that you are taking up valuable space and time for no gain. Bless you.

German Minister Of Health Spahn: Danger Of Second Wave Pandemic Is Real

Why just Switzerland??? This is a technology that every country with mountains can copy so where is the CHF advantage? New Zealand has many more mountains just as high or higher and a very small surrounding population and then the ocean.

Starting at $500,000: A Swiss Mountain Vault for Storing Riches

This epithet is more relevant to a different situation where a person claims to have made bucks (traders here) but there is no way of verifying the claim and the quantum. Here the claim is that the FED will bail out the private sector or the public ...

Wall Street To Washington: ‘Show Me The Money’

When we set out to achieve goals in life such as making profits on forex trading look out for opinons expressed in this way as you would many red flags while driving along an icy highway.

German Minister Of Health Spahn: Danger Of Second Wave Pandemic Is Real

Economics is a social science and can be as exact as a society is. In this context which is sort of a free trade world then prices will tend towards a uniform level leaving producers betting on a higher level than that level very disappointed. So ...

The inflation threat hasn't gone away as governments borrow and spend: Don Pittis

Bullish triggers will be a) a vaccine cavalry, b) US covid numbers going down and associated with sensible lockdown measures which are convincing, c) a significant shift away from anti global co-operation policies with the rest of the world (but ...

Bearish Case for US Dollar Thickens, but Bulls are Tough to Find

March 16: "My administration is recommending that all Americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible. Avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people. Avoid discretionary travel. And avoid eating and ...

Florida reports more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases, shattering record