Global Debt of $63 Trillion

by visualcapitalist $63 Trillion of World Debt in One Visualization If you add up all the money that national governments have borrowed, it tallies to a hefty $63 trillion. In an ideal situation, governments are just borrowing this money to cover …

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Tick. Tock: Price Discovery Has Been Virtually Eliminated From Global Equity Markets, Most Of The Gain Concentrated In 5 Stocks.

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/923582220895440897 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/923996073370243072 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/923959168196849664 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/923921375961772032 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/923553734873018368 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/923601490484387841 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/923953080663707649 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/923600057118666752 Home ownership has declined in Canada and in many parts of the world. Someone purchased a huge amount gold future contracts which pushed the gold price up. The economy will be coming …

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Global Markets: Never before has price ascension been this uni-directional with volatility this compressed and flatlined. There has always never been this much central bank intervention. There is no market history for this to continue.

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/918389272301973504 The $VIX’s corollary, the inverse $XIV, embarked on an explosive near one way journey since the US election coinciding with over $2 trillion central bank intervention in just the first 9 months of 2017… Tech rally stall? @TgMacro sees …

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A GLOBAL EURODOLLAR SHORTAGE

by Gordon T Long   The World Bank just released a telling report entitled “Trade Developments in 2016: Policy Uncertainty Weighs on World Trade“. Though they deflect the problems in global trade to areas such as excessive regulatory initiatives and policy uncertainty …

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