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Distinct Lack of Good Faith, Part ??

By |2017-10-17T18:52:06-04:00October 17th, 2017|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

It was a busy weekend in retrospect, starting with Janet Yellen and other central bankers uncomfortably facing a global media that has become (for once) increasingly unconvinced. Reporters, really, don’t have much choice. The Federal Reserve Chairman might not be aware of just how much she has used the “transitory” qualifier since 2015, but others can’t be helped from noticing. [...]

Distinct Lack of Good Faith

By |2017-09-25T16:36:53-04:00September 25th, 2017|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

The erosion of social order in any historical or geographic context is gradual; until it isn’t. Germany has always followed a keen sense of this process, having experienced it to every possible extreme between the World Wars. Hyperinflationary collapse doesn’t happen overnight; it took three years for the Weimar mark to disintegrate, and then Weimar Germany. Even Nazism wasn’t all [...]

A Southerly Reminder That The Clock Is Ticking

By |2017-02-10T18:37:53-05:00February 10th, 2017|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

The cruelest part, perhaps, of this economic condition globally is how it plays against type. In all prior cycles, economies of all kinds and orientations all over the globe would go into recession and then bounce right of it once at the bottom. It was often difficult to see the bottom, of course, but once recovery happened there was no [...]

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