Category Archive: 5) Global Macro
Our Culture of Rape
These are the poisoned fruits of a neofeudal system in which power, wealth and political influence are concentrated in the apex of the wealth-power pyramid. Stripped of pretense, ours is a culture of rape. Apologists for the system that spawned this culture of rape claim that this violence is the work of a few scattered sociopaths. The apologists are wrong: The system generates a culture of rape.
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03-23-13-Macro Analytics – Market Clearing Event – Charles Hugh Smith
QUESTIONS ON THE TABLE 1- How Large can Central Bank’s Balance Sheets actually get before too much is too much? 2- Is Public Debt Monetization A
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Aligning Politics To economics
There is no argument that the New Deal of the 1930’s completely changed the political situation in America, including the fundamental relationship of the government to its people. The way it came about was entirely familiar, a sense from among a large (enough) portion of the general population that the paradigm of the time no longer worked. It was only for whichever political party that spoke honestly to that predicament to obtain long-term...
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09 15 15 MACRO ANALYTICS – Its Getting Ugly out there! w/ Charles Hugh Smith
with Charles Hugh Smith & Gordon T Long 28 Minutes – 21 Slides Charles Hugh Smith and Gordon T Long discuss the US Equity Market Technicals.
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MACRO ANALYTICS – 07 14 17 – The Road to Financialization w/ Charles Hugh Smith
Anyone interested in how we got to where we are today will enjoy this tutorial discussion of the chronology of US & Global Monetary Events regarding the
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Emerging Markets: What has Changed
China announced that it will remove foreign ownership limits on banks and other measures to open up the financial sector. Central Bank of Turkey lowered commercial bank FX reserve requirements in an effort to support the lira. US-Turkey relations appear to be thawing slightly. Middle East tensions are rising on a variety of fronts. Argentina central bank unexpectedly hiked rates again.
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