Category Archive: 5) Global Macro

The Roundtable Insight – Charles Hugh Smith on the Insanity of Central Banks in Addressing Inflation

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Weekly Market Pulse: The Dog That Didn’t Bark

Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Sherlock Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” Sherlock Holmes: “That was the curious incident.” From Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892

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Everything Is About To Crash Jeff Snider | Treasury Bills

Everything Is About To Crash Jeff Snider, Treasury Bills. #jeffsnider#treasurybills#economy#useconomy#

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Boris Johnson visits Kyiv as Ukraine marks Independence Day | Latest International News

Boris Johnson has made a surprise visit to Kyiv to mark Ukraine's independence day. This is Johnson's third visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded six months ago.

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China’s Currency (had been) Suspiciously Stable [Ep. 279, Eurodollar University]

China's economic results for July were "gruesome", the rest of the year not been much better. That's troubling enough but when the yuan doesn't move a scintilla for weeks it suggests the People's Bank of China is fighting hard to prevent a depreciation -- maybe even a devaluation?

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The Saudi prince: how dangerous is MBS?

Muhammad bin Salman, or MBS—the millennial crown prince of Saudi Arabia—appears increasingly invincible. With the war in Ukraine disrupting energy supplies, Western leaders are eager to get their hands on his oil. But should they worry about the young prince’s power? 00:00 - How dangerous is MBS 01:06 - How MBS has reformed Saudi Arabia 02:59 - Who is MBS? 03:36 - MBS’ rise to power 06:21 - Khalid Al-Jabri on MBS’ brutal regime 08:14 - The murder...

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What’s Worse Than Inflation? Depression + Inflation

If "markets" controlled by the rich are allowed to distribute essentials, the result will be civil disorder and the overthrow of regimes. What's worse than inflation? Depression + Inflation. And that's where we're heading. As I explained yesterday in The Fed Can't Stop Supply-Side Inflation, central banks are trying to reduce inflation by crushing demand.

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Ukraine Nuclear Chief warns over Russian activity at nuclear site | Latest World News | WION

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant which is at the center of the Ukraine conflict continues to worry over a possible nuclear disaster. Reports now suggest that a detailed plan has been drawn up by Russia to disconnect Europe's largest nuclear plant from Ukraine's grid, citing concerns ahead of Ukraine's atomic energy.

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Jeffrey Snider about US Dollar

Jeffrey Snider about US Dollar: How the global monetary system actually works. What really make the FED. What is QE and QT.

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Rate Hikes Are Working

New home sales were reported for July as down nearly 13% to 511K, a number that is just about the average since 2010 (543k). But that doesn’t tell the whole story obviously. New home sales have fallen sharply since December of last year, down 39%. The drop from the peak in August 2020 is even more dramatic, down nearly 51%.

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Gravitas LIVE | Six months of Ukraine war | What next in battleground Ukraine? | Putin’s big bet

Watch Gravitas LIVE with Palki Sharma Upadhyay: - 6 months of Ukraine war: Takeaways & the road ahead - Battleground Taiwan: China building more warships - Pak army to provide FIFA World Cup security - China’s big move in Iraq - Europe can’t get over a train breakdown #Gravitas #PalkiSharma #WION

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War in Ukraine nears 6 months, braces itself for Russian intensified attacks | Latest News | WION

Ukraine is bracing itself for increased Russian attacks ahead of its Independence Day on August 24th which falls exactly six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced what he called a 'special operation' in the neighboring nation. WION in an exclusive interview with Dr. Lada L Roslycky, international security analyst from Kyiv.

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WION Fineprint: How drones are shaping the Ukraine war

Drones have become the top focus in Ukraine as thousands are being used by both sides to hit targets behind the enemy lines. Molly Gambhir tells you how drones are shaping this war.

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The Fed Can’t Stop Supply-Side Inflation

The Fed and other central banks have zero control of supply-driven inflation, period. America's financial punditry is bewitched by four fatal fantasies: 1. Inflation is demand-driven. If the Federal Reserve (or other central banks) reduce demand with monetary tools like raising interest rates, inflation will cool. 2. Substitution of high-cost goods with lower-cost goods reduces inflation, and substitution is infinite: there's always cheaper...

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Gravitas: Russia thwarts terror plot against India, detains I-S operative

Russia has thwarted a terror plot against India. The FSB has apprehended an Islamic state operative who planned to carry out a 'suicide attack' in India over the blasphemy row.

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Warning: Oil Moving Rapidly to “Contango” [Ep. 277, Eurodollar University]

The calendar spread (1- and 3-month) in the oil futures market (West Texas Intermediate) is compressing and is THIS close to being in contango. That would be the oil market saying, 'We don't see the demand. Keep your barrels—don't call us, we'll call you.'

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The Real Story of America Abandoning the Gold Standard

Even currencies maintaining convertibility to gold are still subject to bond yields, interest rates, trade and capital flows. It's widely held that all of our financial woes are the result of abandoning the discipline of the gold standard in 1971. The premise here is that if the U.S. had maintained the gold standard, the excesses of the fiat currencies regime could not have arisen.

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The Economy Improved In July

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index rose to 0.27 in July with all four categories of indicators rising. The 3 month average was unchanged at -0.09. That indicates growth is slightly below trend and is far from the recession threshold of -0.7.

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Weekly Market Pulse: Same As It Ever Was

History never repeats itself. Man always does. Mark Twain is credited with a similar saying, that history doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. Of course, there is scant evidence that Clemens said anything of the sort just as Voltaire may or may not have penned the quote above. But both men were much wittier than I – than most – so I’ll take them both as being representative if not genuine.

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Taiwan: will there be war?

The uneasy status-quo between China and Taiwan, which has existed for seven decades, is looking more fragile than ever. Is war inevitable? 00:00 - Threat to Taiwan’s peace 00:38 - Are we closer to war? 01:47 - China’s growing power 03:01 - Taiwan’s allies 03:45 - Taiwanese public opinion 04:45 - Rising threat of war Read more about preventing a war in Taiwan: https://econ.st/3zX43UX Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter:...

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