By Robert Ross “We haven’t seen our sales drop this quickly since 2008.” That’s a quote from a top sales and marketing executive at one of the largest companies in the world. I met her a couple of months ago …
by Jesse Colombo via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In a speech in Hong Kong this week, former Fed chair Janet Yellen stated that “global central banks don’t have adequate crisis tools.” According to that logic, she believes that launching additional multi-trillion dollar rounds of …
Here’s today’s article mentioned in this news update: 1. Can Anything Stop the Next Global Recession? https://www.theweek.co.uk/100409/can-… 2. Global Economic Briefing: Central Bank Balance Sheets https://www.yardeni.com/pub/peacockfe…
GOOGLE Helping Beijing Build ‘Global Digital Dictatorship’… Google’s decision to help China is paving the way for Beijing’s ‘digital dictatorship.’ Ultimately, Washington must make a political decision to criminalize such collaboration. General Joseph Dunford, America’s top military officer, has announced he will …
Financial writer and professional trader Rick Ackerman says, “I think they have gone crazy. Powell says no rate hikes in 2019, and then, this guy Harker (Philadelphia Fed) says maybe one rate hike in 2019 and one in 2020. They …
The global economy is ‘clearly’ slowing down: AP Moller-Maersk from CNBC. Soren Skou of A.P. Moller-Maersk says U.S.-China trade issues are the “biggest single risk” that can affect the company’s shipping business. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/03/27/the-global-economy-is-clearly-slowing-down-ap-moller-maersk.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail
The economic slowdown continues. No, I didn’t say the stock market. That’s a whole different story. Some areas of the economy are good. We still have people going to restaurant. People are shopping for the most part. Cars are moving …
via Zerohedge: While some are ignoring the looming economic crunch and instead blame mortgage convexity hedgers for the sharp move lower in yields in the past week which led to the first inversion in the recession signalling 3M-10Y curve since 2007, even …
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Bond yields are crashing in major markets all around the world as fears of a global economic slowdown have prompted investors to seek shelter in low-risk government debt. Both Germany and Japan’s 10-year …
buy bonds, sell stocks, recession fears still linger pic.twitter.com/HnkQHlTkfz — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) March 26, 2019 Consumer Confidence Crashes Most Since Oct 2008 After a hope-filled rebound in February, Conference Board Consumer Confidence tumbled in March with Present Situation plunging to 11-month …
via marketwatch: Another round of downbeat economic data sent the yield on Germany’s 10-year government bond back below 0% for the first time since 2016, highlighting a renewed rise in the amount of debt world-wide offering negative yields. “The financial world …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Preview Ahead of the Open US stocks index futures are trending lower this morning, following global stocks, after weak US data on Friday fueled growing concerns of a slowdown in global growth, with front-month Dow Jones minis -0.17%, S&P …
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by Michael Snyder “Slowing international macroeconomic conditions” is just a fancy way to say that the global economy is in big trouble. For months, I have been warning that economic conditions are deteriorating, and we just keep getting more confirmation that we …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, it is becoming very obvious that we are headed into a recession here in Europe. I have never felt how ominous things seem as they do right now. Will you be covering Scandinavia at the WEC …
via @TaviCosta: Long gold in CNY; short global equities. Remarkable how well this trade performed in all Chinese and global economic downturns of the last 40 years. In-depth analysis follows below: https://www.crescat.net/wp-content/uploads/Macro-Trade-of-The-Century.pdf …
via CNBC: Companies, governments and households increased their combined debt load by 50 percent in the 10 years following the financial crisis, S&P Global Ratings said Tuesday. The surge represents a 50 percent increase that the ratings firm nonetheless said …
via visualcapitalist: Global economics is effectively a numbers game. As long as the data adds up to economic expansion on a worldwide level, it’s easy to keep the status quo rolling. Companies can shift resources to the growing segments, and investors …
by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market For a few years now, since at least 2014, the phrase “global economic reset” has been circulating in the financial world. This phrase is used primarily by globalist institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to describe an …
Have we seen the bottom in macro data? Global macro data may bounce in the next month, but the long term trend of low growth and disinflation prevails. … And central planners will not change it. pic.twitter.com/Ph44bWDkOI — Daniel Lacalle …
The Cashless Society. It’s creeping up at an increasing pace. The reason I love cash is that the transaction takes place between two people. That’s it. Nobody else knows about it. It’s freedom in a sense. When it’s digital, maybe …
by Marshall Auerback In the aftermath of the greatest financial calamity since the Great Depression, then–chief of staff for the Obama administration Rahm Emanuel made the call for aggressive action to prevent a recurrence of the meltdown of 2008. Although the …
by Michael Snyder Even mainstream economists are admitting that economic activity is slowing down. And at this point that fact would be very difficult to deny, because the numbers are very clear. We haven’t faced anything like this in a decade, …
by Jim Willie CB The Gold suppression game appears finally to be coming to an end. A Perfect Storm is hitting the Gold market, with an internal factor (QE), an external factor (SGE), and a systemic factor (Basel). All three …
Global Economy Weakest Since Financial Crisis (Bloomberg) — The global economy’s sharp loss of speed through 2018 has left the pace of expansion the weakest since the global financial crisis a decade ago, according to Bloomberg Economics. Its new GDP …
Eric Sprott interviewed by Craig Hemke on The Weekly Wrap-Up March 8, 2019 The latest U.S. unemployment report is in (spoiler alert: it’s not good), the European Union moved to continue QE, and China made a surprising announcement. All this, and—finally!—a new CoT report. …
by Jesse Colombo Knight Frank’s latest annual Wealth Report just came out and is full of interesting data. What stood out to me, in particular, is the statistic that showed that the global billionaire population has approximately doubled since 2013, so I …
by WARREN MOSLER Downward revisions for q4 GDP. And not how both imports and exports are down for the last 6 months or so as global trade decelerates: Highlights Revision estimates for fourth-quarter GDP will be coming down following an …
via visualcapitalist: The global financial system has created massive wealth, but its centralized nature means the spoils have gone to the people who are best connected to the financial centers of the world. As global inequality continues to rise, how can wealth building …
