This last week and over the weekend, it became clear that U.S. President Trump was not engaging in the "art of the bluff" when he increased duties on a wide assortment of Chinese goods worth $200 billion...
Since the year began you have watched oil prices really soar. This has been supported by a number of factors, including OPEC cutting supplies, additional fighting in Libya, and American sanctions against both OPEC nations Iran...
This past week the news emerged that vehicle sales throughout China declined by a painful three percent for 2018 in the Middle Kingdom. This represented the very first such drop in Chinese auto sales in approximately two decades. Worse still, analysts claim this is only...
This past week witnessed the 20 year anniversary of the greatest currency sharing experiment in history--- the Euro. The only way to appropriately describe this monetary foray so far is with a Dickens' classic line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst...
December marked the largest single month funds transfer into bonds according to a closely watched report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. It was yet another signal of smart money investors fleeing the stock market in an...
This past week saw the geopolitical situation in France descend into dark days not seen in decades. The French Interior Ministry announced that the four week long nationwide demonstrations had grown into 125,000 people this past Saturday. Fully...
This past week saw a new international geopolitical crisis break out involving Vladimir Putin's Russia. The Russians seized three Ukrainian naval vessels and took them to Kerch. Kiev has responded by declaring martial law and warning of an imminent invasion by their Russian neighbors. The...
This past week saw world leaders preparing for the Buenos Aires G-20 summit as the trade war raged on between the United States and China. President Donald Trump had a meeting scheduled with the Chinese President Xi...
This past week the International Monetary Fund released an alarming report and statement on slowing global growth. The IMF said that this is real, and it will have a potentially significant impact on the world and...
Last week you saw the revived U.S. sanctions against Iran finally take full effect. This has caused dramatic swings in past months across oil and energy markets. Something that has been overlooked though is the geopolitical consequences...
The month of October that just ended last week was the worst one for global stock markets in over six years. Around the world, global equities' markets plunged 7.5 percent. This dismal performance represented the worst...
This past week the game of brinkmanship between the European Union and Italy escalated to a whole new level. The EU retaliated by rejecting the Italian national budget in an unprecedented...
This past week you saw further revelations emerge about the true picture and nature of the quietly exploding debt mountain in China's local governments. Analysts are aware of an up to 60 percent debt to GDP official total...
Stocks have been on a wild and volatile roller coaster ride since Wednesday a week ago. If you have paid attention to financial news, you can not help but notice that the fears of dramatically increasing interest rates on Wall Street have finally shaken the...
This past week saw the escalating and dangerous situation in the world oil markets spiral further out of control. The U.S. continued its determined drive to sanction oil exports coming from Iran. Now economists and strategists alike...
This past week saw things take a serious turn for the worse with the slow drip-drop torture of Brexit. Only the past weekend, the negotiations effectively broke down between the United Kingdom and the European Union. Leaders...
This past week saw the United States stand up for itself in Central and East Asia. America fought back against the Chinese One Belt, One Road Initiative with a program of its own designed to counter the rising...
This last week the situation in Venezuela became even more desperate as the IMF warned that the economy is collapsing so fast that inflation is predicted to reach a million percent this year in 2018. There have been some eerie parallels drawn between Venezuela and...
This past week you saw the rapidly deteriorating situation in Italy and by extension the entire European Union grow significantly worse. Italy, one of the G7 nations of the...
This past week saw the latest round of American sanctions on Russia take effect. These were unique in their stemming from the Russian nerve agent attack on the Skripals in Great Britain. They increase significantly the assortment of...
