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July 1, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET It’s not that central banks are “dumping” their dollar-assets – […]
June 28, 2024
From Goehring & Rozencwajg Adam Rozencwajg and Yra Harris joined the Financial Repression […]
June 26, 2024
2024.06.22 Generally speaking, the dollar and US bond yields rise and fall together, […]
June 23, 2024
By Alexander Panetta – CBC New To understand Canada’s failure to criminally prosecute foreign […]
June 22, 2024
From The Economist Four hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, in the […]
June 19, 2024
From Mining.com More central banks plan to add to their gold reserves within […]
June 19, 2024
By SHANG-JIN WEI – Project Syndicate The investigators sent requests for cooperation to […]
June 19, 2024
By Monique Mulima – Bloomberg EVs are more expensive, batteries fade faster in cold […]
June 17, 2024
By Jacob Lorinc – Bloomberg The small Australian firm, which mines rare earths in […]
June 17, 2024
By Martin Armstrong – Statista Global spending on nuclear weapons rose by 13.4 […]
June 16, 2024
By Geoffrey Morgan and Jacob Lorinc – Bloomberg After the 2011 Fukushima disaster nuclear energy was […]
June 15, 2024
By Hal Brands – Bloomberg President Joe Biden has compiled, over the past four […]
June 15, 2024
By Felix Richter – Statista As has been widely expected after the latest […]
June 11, 2024
By Agathe Demarais – FP Live On May 14, Washington slapped new tariffs on China in […]
June 8, 2024
2024.06.07 When Israel bombed a refugee camp in Gaza on the premise that […]
June 8, 2024
From Bloomberg The Pentagon focused on high-tech weapons after the Soviet Union fell, […]
June 7, 2024
By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist In this graphic, we provide insight into […]
June 4, 2024
By ALICIA GARCÍA-HERRERO and ALESSIO TERZI – Project Syndicate China continues to treat only the […]
June 2, 2024
By Wolf Richter – Wolf Street Tax receipts by the federal government in 2024 […]
June 2, 2024
By NATHANIEL HERZ – Alaska Beacon Red Dog mine has sustained hundreds of jobs […]
June 1, 2024
By Simon Lomax, Greg Clough and Morgan Bazilian – Barron’s At a fundamental level, the energy transition […]
May 26, 2024
By Julia Wendling – Visual Capitalist The Federal Reserve has overseen seven cycles […]
May 22, 2024
From The Economist Almost every rich country is considering increasing its pro-natal efforts, […]
May 19, 2024
By Brian Platt – Bloomberg Canada is examining whether it needs to raise tariffs […]
May 17, 2024
By Joseph White, Chris Kirkham and Nora Eckert – Reuters The Biden administration’s plan to slap heavy […]
May 15, 2024
By Felix Richter – Statista On Tuesday, the Biden administration formally announced its plans to increase […]
May 13, 2024
By Joe Light – Barron’s The president signed three monumental bills into law: the […]
May 11, 2024
By Wolf Richter – WOLF STREET What this labor market is telling us recession watchers […]
May 11, 2024
By Karen Lema – Reuters The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled […]
May 10, 2024
By Josh Wingrove, Jennifer Jacobs, and Eric Martin – Bloomberg The US will impose new, elevated tariffs […]
May 9, 2024
2024.05.09 “Minsky Moment” refers to the idea that periods of bullish speculation will […]
May 9, 2024
By Jane L. Johnson – Mises Wire One hears little today of the […]
May 9, 2024
From The Economist To assess the state of international affairs, a good rule of […]
May 8, 2024
2024.05.05 The Biden administration has given electric-vehicle makers a two-year extension to shore […]
May 7, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The first three months of the year have produced a […]
May 6, 2024
By Michael Mackenzie and Liz Capo McCormick – Bloomberg At $2 Million Per Minute, Treasuries Mint […]
May 5, 2024
By Daniel Lacalle – Mises Institute Price inflation is no coincidence. It is […]
May 2, 2024
May 2, 2024
By William Pesek – Barron’s Global markets rarely turn on interest rate decisions […]
May 1, 2024
From Mining.com North American graphite miners are lobbying the US government to impose […]
April 30, 2024
From The Ecomomist When jihadist gunmen shot their way through Crocus City Hall in […]
April 28, 2024
By Wolf Richter – WOLF STREET The core PCE price index, which excludes the volatile […]
April 26, 2024
By WILDER ALEJANDRO SANCHEZ – Breaking defense The surprise decision by Argentina to […]
April 24, 2024
By Marina Rocha – Mises Wire According to their website, the Conservative Political […]
April 24, 2024
From The Economist The dollar is looking increasingly formidable. As American growth has […]
April 24, 2024
By Tim Martin – Breaking Defense Global military expenditure surged to a record […]
April 24, 2024
By Philip Heijmans – Bloomberg Beijing’s vast claims across the South China Sea — […]
April 23, 2024
By Jonathan Levin – Bloomberg In reality, today’s dollar strength is mostly a straightforward […]
April 22, 2024
By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist Government debt levels have grown in most […]
April 22, 2024
By Molly Smith and Craig Stirling – Bloomberg Federal Reserve officials are about to get further […]
April 19, 2024
By STEPHEN S. ROACH – Project Syndicate China is facing a broad constellation […]
April 16, 2024
By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist Come tax season, a common refrain is: […]
April 16, 2024
By Jacob Lorinc – Bloomberg News When the group of mining executives arrived […]
April 14, 2024
2024.04.14 Iran’s exports of crude oil grew by roughly 50% last year to […]
April 12, 2024
April 10, 2024
From The Economist How long can the firehose keep blasting? At first glance, […]
April 10, 2024
By Adekeye Adebajo – Project Syndicate The seemingly intractable conflict in Africa’s volatile […]
April 4, 2024
By NOURIEL ROUBINI – Project Syndicate While China obviously needs to boost private-sector […]
March 30, 2024
By JAMES RICKARDS – Daily Reckoning Markets and the Fed both assume that current […]
March 30, 2024
By Felix Richter – Statista Five years after the Supreme Court struck down […]
March 28, 2024
By Prinz Magtulis, Nichola Groom, Jarrett Renshaw and Moira Warburton – Reuters The counter-intuitive fossil fuel boom under […]
March 28, 2024
By STEPHEN S. ROACH – Project Syndicate As America’s Sinophobia has become increasingly […]
March 27, 2024
By Mariano Zafra, Max Hunder, Anurag Rao and Sudev Kiyada – Reuters Soldiers have learned to fear the ominous […]
March 24, 2024
By Soham Patil – Mises Wire A recent video by CNN states that […]
March 24, 2024
By Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence – Project Syndicate India’s systemic importance has become […]
March 24, 2024
By Dorothy Gambrell and Laura Bliss – Bloomberg The way Americans feel about the economy is […]
March 23, 2024
By Felix Richter – Statista As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) […]
March 21, 2024
By Alexander C. Kaufman and Chris D’Angelo – Huffpost Seven months after Beijing put […]
March 21, 2024
From The Economist For much of history, Russia, Iran and China were less […]
March 18, 2024
March 18, 2024
From Mining.com “The new AMT rules are said to target fewer than 25,000 […]
March 17, 2024
By Mike Fredenburg – The Epoch Times There is another metric that is more […]
March 16, 2024
From The Economist Which cartoon character does the American economy most resemble? The consensus […]
March 15, 2024
By Daniel Lacalle – Mises Wire The government tries to blame inflation on […]
March 15, 2024
By Jacob Lorinc and Brian Platt – Bloomberg China’s ambassador says the country will continue to […]
March 14, 2024
By Joel Schectman and Christopher Bing – Reuters Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized […]
March 13, 2024
By Wolf Richter – WOLF STREET The “core services” CPI (services minus energy services) is crucial. […]
March 13, 2024
By Moira Warburton – Reuters Congress is not spending enough time in Washington to […]
March 11, 2024
By WILLIAM PESEK – Asia Times “China’s ODI has risen substantially since the turn […]
March 10, 2024
By Vince Golle and Craig Stirling – Bloomberg Inflation in the US probably abated only gradually […]
March 8, 2024
2024.03.07 The Fed’s preferred measure of inflation is core PCE, which stands for […]
March 8, 2024
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider – Reuters Federal Reserve policymakers weighing when to start interest-rate […]
March 8, 2024
By Florian Zandt – Statista As our chart based on data from Box Office […]
March 8, 2024
By Barry Brownstein – AIER Recently, Jonathan Mayo compiled new details of the […]
March 8, 2024
By Daniel Lacalle – Mises Wire The relentless increase in global debt is an […]
March 5, 2024
2024.03.02 The mantra? Our fossil-fueled based transportation system needs to be 100% electrified, […]
March 5, 2024
By Daniel Lacalle – Mises Wire The main central banks have been deliberating […]
March 4, 2024
By Andreas Kluth – Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine with a tale […]
March 2, 2024
By Michelle Fox – CNBC The nation’s debt permanently crossed over to $34 […]
February 28, 2024
By STEPHEN S. ROACH – Project Syndicate With his recent testimony warning of […]
February 28, 2024
By Carter Johnson and Anya Andrianova – Yahoo Finance The greenback is just […]
February 27, 2024
From Daniel Lacalle The relentless increase in global debt is an enormous problem for […]
February 27, 2024
By Benjamin Shingler – CBC News Canada’s largest pension funds, which hold trillions of dollars in […]
February 26, 2024
2024.02.26 The Inflation Reduction Act aims to grant incentives to companies that source […]
February 26, 2024
By David Brady, Jr. – Mises Institute The Consumer Price Index numbers have […]
February 25, 2024
By Marcus Lu – Visual Calpitalist Wealth distribution in America has become increasingly […]
February 24, 2024
By Egon von Greyerz – von Greyerz Gold “Poverty is the parent of revolution, […]
February 23, 2024
By Amanda Stutt – Mining.com “I’ve also heard that we need to take the […]
February 22, 2024
2024.02.22 Could restoring a depleted stash of critical minerals help to bolster security […]