Yearly Archives: 2018

China’s Opaque Financial System And The U.S. S&L Crisis

Awesome chart on the opaque China’s Financial System from the IMF’s latest Global Financial Stability Report.    China has been a hedge fund graveyard as short positions on the country have moved sideways if not against the perps. . The … Continue reading

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Size of Global Economies – Nominal $ GDP (US$ billion)

Hat Tip:  Grace E.,  The Gorgeous Ginger From Maria Carillo

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World’s Fastest Growing Economies In 2018 – 2.0

Hot of the press! We have updated the latest 2018 and 2019-20 average annual forecasts and ranked the world’s country 2018 GDP forecasts in our ginormous table below. The data are from today’s release of the  April 2018 IMF’s World Economic … Continue reading

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Week In Review – April 13

   

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Sector ETF Performance – April 13

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Global Risk Monitor – April 13

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Key Digit From Bank Earnings: Punk Loan Growth

Looks like our priors were correct.  The tax cut is morphing into nothing more than a financial engineering game.   The economics of corporations or the macro have not changed. Random thought:  We hear much about how the corporate tax cut … Continue reading

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Are we heading for a third world war?- BBC News

We asked foreign policy experts around the world whether we are heading for a third world war. Producer Tobias Chapple Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

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Better Than Crypto

The world’s hottest investment. Thank you, Japan.  The land of the rising Ohtani-San! World’s best investment. Thank you, Japan. The land of the rising Ohtani-San! https://t.co/hA1n8O4Efh — Gregor Samsa (@macromon) April 12, 2018  

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