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Daily Risk Monitor – December 23

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Quote of the Day (QOTD)

Remember: Prices drive narratives.   – Eddy Elfenbein Or, as we like to say,  “analysts retrofit fundamentals to the price action.”

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Merry Christmas, Folks!

Thanks for tuning in this year and staying with us.  Lots of good things to come in the New Year. Let us raise some Christmas cheer the progress we have have made over the past two centuries and end with … Continue reading

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COTD: Big Oil

Our chart of the day (COTD) comes to from the Visual Capitalist.     First, some context from their website, The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Ever since the invention of the internal … Continue reading

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COTD: Executive Orders by President

Nice chart by the Daily Dot coming to us via King David over at  Think In The Morning.  Check out his blog, one of the smartest economists we know. The data totally contradict the meme that President Obama is the … Continue reading

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World Consumer Inflation Rates

We have ranked the world’s 2016 consumer inflation rates by country in the ginormous table below.  The data are from the October 2016 IMF’s World Economic Outlook database.  Note, 2016 are IMF estimates. But, first, check out the low inflation, … Continue reading

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Time To Buy A New or Used Car?

Folks, easy money/ conusmer credit almost always moves consumption  forward and robs from the future.  Not the case with capital investment and capital accumulation however, which are the foundations of growth. I posit the slow growth in the G5  is now … Continue reading

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World’s Fastest Growing Economies

We have ranked the world’s country 2016 GDP growth rates in the ginormous table below.  The data are from the October 2016 IMF’s World Economic Outlook database. But, first, check out the dismal economic performance of the G5 economies.

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COTD: Raw Materials

Nice chart/infographic,  Where do our raw materials come from? From the BullionVault, WHICH countries produce the raw materials we all need and use every day? Who mines the copper, grows the timber, makes the cement and harvests the coffee all … Continue reading

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