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The Real Reason Why Stop/Go Is Back To Stop Again

By |2019-03-05T18:31:57-05:00March 5th, 2019|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

These things have typically started in global trade. This makes sense given what we are dealing with are intermittent problems in global money. Quite simply, you can’t trade if you can’t get any. Therefore, the more acute the dollar shortage the more disruptive to the global merchandise economy. The one exception to this pattern was the first. Euro$ #1 registered [...]

Chart of the Week: Pure Risk

By |2018-06-15T19:01:45-04:00June 15th, 2018|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Well before Jerome Powell changed his dots a little, or the ECB chickened out, the Reserve Bank of India had already acted. For the first time since January 2014, on June 6 the RBI raised its benchmark repo rate. Rather than reverse the rupee’s slide it appears to have renewed it. The euro may have routed yesterday and hogged all the [...]

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