Transformed in a handful of years from a tiny fishing economy to an international banking powerhouse to a poster-child victim of the global crash, Iceland provides the perfect microcosm for observing the end results of cheap, plentiful cash and governme ...
Tag: global economy
Feature - May 2nd, 2012
All terms: banking, Current Analysis, Dollar, economic recovery, Euro Crisis, Financial Crisis, global economy
Blog Post - May 1st, 2012
As of recent, Southeast Asia has been building momentum, both economically, as a result of broadening representative governments, and politically, with recent elections held in Myanmar and an upcoming announcement of election in Malaysia.
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Feature - April 11th, 2012
The world is running out of silver.
According to the USGS , 17 billion ounces of known silver supply remain in the ground globally--the troy ounces of silver equivalent of the 530,000 metric tons reported in the table below.
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All terms: commodities, Currency Manipulation, Current Analysis, global economy, market fundamentals, Price, Silver
Feature - March 14th, 2012
The World Bank announced some good and counterintuitive news recently: that its measure of the portion of the world’s population in extreme poverty has fallen significantly in the past few years, even in the face of the 2008 financial crisis.
If tha ...
All terms: banks, China, commodities, currency inflation, Deflation, fiat currency, Food Prices, global economy, Fundamentals
Feature - February 29th, 2012
While the pundits hash over the putative causes of rising gasoline prices—Mideast tension, refinery shutdowns, speculation—the harsh reality is that pump prices are going to continue climbing because they still have a long way to go. In reality, what Am ...
All terms: Ben Bernanke, central bank, Current Analysis, Dollar, economic cycles, global economy, Inflation, Money, Oil Price, Stagflation, U.S. economy
Blog Post - February 13th, 2012
During July of last year we went though the details about the manipulation of the rate of unemployment. We showed how the decrease in the quantity of the people considered “in the labor force” leads to a lower rate of unemployed than is in fact ...
Blog Post - January 20th, 2012
What happens when big government, big business, big banks just don’t work anymore? The answer just may be, we try small—and local—for a change. Or maybe not.
Writing for OfTwoMinds.com , Charles Hugh Smith, author of An Unconventional Guide t ...
All terms: Central Banks, Free Market, Free Market, global economy, Government, Government, Security
Blog Post - January 13th, 2012
Is the earth’s human population outstripping its resources? And exactly how many people is too many? Assuming the human population responds like other organisms in nature, the outlook is none too rosy.
A recent article on Mike “Mish” Shedlock ...
All terms: Commodities, cycles, Economic Indicators, Free Market, global economy, Government, Oil, Resources
Blog Post - January 6th, 2012
Feeling a little envious, if not downright resentful, when you think about all those hedge-fund managers and corporate titans with their vast wealth, the greedy 1% that inspired the Occupy movement? A visit to GlobalRichList.com might give you a dif ...
Feature - January 4th, 2012
A new agreement between the world’s second- and third-largest economies, China and Japan, raises speculation that China may be upping the ante in its campaign to unseat the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency—and the dollar’s replacement just mi ...
All terms: China, currency, Current Analysis, global economy, International Trade, Japan, U.S. Dollar