Global Financial Risk Factors and Sovereign Risk
An increase in global financial risk causes a large and persistent widening of sovereign spreads, with the spillover effects especially pronounced for speculative-grade sovereign debt
Read more...An increase in global financial risk causes a large and persistent widening of sovereign spreads, with the spillover effects especially pronounced for speculative-grade sovereign debt
Read more...The IMF seems unable to drop its punitive, self and “client” destructive habits.
Read more...America has gone off the deep end re Ukraine. It’s pressuring allies to engage in economic self-harm, which is not a relationship-builder
Read more...A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet
Read more...Yves here. Michel Hudson, in this short talk with The Saker, debunks many widespread misperceptions about the dollar, the US economy, and the prospects for fundamental change. I have only a couple of teeny quibbles and a further thought. Hudson discusses private equity buying up single family homes. While that was a very big trend […]
Read more...Public authorities should refrain from taking measures supporting additional investment flows into Bitcoin and should treat it as rigorously as the conventional financial industry to combat illicit payments, money laundering, and terrorist financing
Read more...Marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Bretton Woods economic system.
Read more...The more you look at the cryptocurrency Tether, the less there is to like.
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains why Bitcoin is not good for much except enriching early adopters and intermediaries.
Read more...If you think the officialdom is getting tough with crypto, there’s even more they can do to tighten the screws.
Read more...You can hear the silence about the role of crypto in the Colonial Pipeline and a growing spate of ransom demands.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses geopolitics including currency power plays, global institutions like the IMF, the new Cold War, and Bill Gates
Read more...Michael Hudson gives a long historical account of the role of debt and money as a tool for promoting prosperity and political dominance.
Read more...China has been setting up currency swap lines with many countries. But is this an idea that is ahead of its time?
Read more...Most of us would not want to live in a society where bitcoin succeeds.
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