Nomi Prins: My Political-Financial Road Map for 2017
Some specifics of why political risk and central bank policy will make for a wild ride in 2017.
Read more...Some specifics of why political risk and central bank policy will make for a wild ride in 2017.
Read more...Storied short seller Jim Chanos takes a long view of recent political and economic changes, including, of course, the Trump win.
Read more...China and the US are making thread displays at each other. Not big ones, but still meant to be noticed.
Read more...Trump Secretary of State contender Rudy Giuliani makes belligerent noises towards China and wants the US to bulk up its navy.
Read more...Journalist John Pilger tells Paul Jay that the very real prospect of another World War is not being taken seriously by the US media. Whoever wins tomorrow, tensions will escalate with China and Russia.
Read more...Too many parties are becoming less inhibited about pressing the nuclear button.
Read more...Why China’s fabulously leveraged housing market may finally be on the verge of a long-anticipated implosion.
Read more...China and Russia are trying to ensure that Washington no longer exercises unrestrained power, and with a good bit of success.
Read more...Why China will influence any OPEC deal in November, and some broader implications.
Read more...China has plenty of reason to curb its emissions and has shown that it is serious about doing it.
Read more...Another alarm about the danger that China’s rapid increase in private debt poses to its banks.
Read more...Why private debt is so dangerous, and why that risk looms large, particularly in China.
Read more...China Containerized Freight Index remains near record low.
Read more...More concerned tea-leaf reading in the wake of a BIS report that sounded alarms about China’s debt growth.
Read more...Australia faces choices in deciding what role China should play in Australia’s future. China is aggressively deploying “soft power” and outright offers of money (or threats to withhold funds) in attempting to sway Australian foreign policy both in the short-term, in pressing China’s case for control of the South China Sea, and in the longer-term, to reconsider its alliance with the United States.
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