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The IMF Discovers The Ticking Clock

By |2016-03-22T11:51:25-04:00March 22nd, 2016|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

By April last year, it had become clear that conditions in China were heading into dangerous territory. Even though most mainstream attention was fixed on the then-still growing stock bubble, there was so much that was wrong almost everywhere else. The economy would not stop slowing, and indeed still has not. The financial system was worse, so much so that [...]

The Inescapable Trap of the ‘Dollar Short’ Is The Short; Russian Edition

By |2015-12-30T11:22:22-05:00December 30th, 2015|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Though most of Russia’s territory belongs in Asia, it would be difficult to characterize Russian finances as “Asian.” Most of the dirty work is done in the financial centers of Moscow, but in the past year and a half under the “rising dollar” paradigm, Russian financial existence may be more Asian than geography alone might permit. The similarities are perhaps [...]

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