The Wobbly State of Chinese Banks
Chinese business owes more to their banks than the value of the entire Chinese economy. What happens when it all comes crashing down?
04Feb
04Feb
Size Matters – “Too Big to Fail” Banks Are Bigger Than Ever
As banks grow bigger who wins? They rake in mega-millions and take risks without consequences, meanwhile your savings are targeted by thieves both without and within.
03Feb
“Gut-Wrenching, Multi-Day, Triple-Digit Bloodbaths”
Was January’s cardiac-inducing stock market volatility an anomaly, or the shape of things to come for a long time?
03Feb
The Lid on the Silver Price is About to Pop
When is eighty-four cents a big deal? When it lays bare the machinations that govern – perhaps even artificially suppress – prices in a multi-billion dollar industry.
02Feb
Japan Goes Negative
Negative interest rates sound like an oxymoron, but they're real and they're sweeping the globe. Could they sweep away what's left of your savings?
02Feb
Underfunded Retirement: A Lonely Road with no Destination
Once an esteemed and educated professional, at age seventy-nine she never imagined she'd be forced to wander the country in search of work, and choose between eating or paying her bills.
01Feb
Economic Growth Slowed to a Crawl in 2015 and Still Dragging…
The malaise was evident even in the holiday month of December – and it turns out that nagging feeling was right. U.S. economic growth virtually ground to a halt, and 2016 is shaping up to be even more sluggish.
01Feb
Germany Wants its Gold Back!
For years hundreds of tonnes of German gold was stored securely in Paris and under the streets of New York. But as financial crisis looms in the EU, the reserves have come home.
29Jan
The Gold Glimmer Behind Market Storms
2016 has been a monster of a year and it's not even a month old. But for one stealth asset the clouds are parting, vindicating longtime proponents.
28Jan
Wall Street – Rise of the Machines
When speed is the name of the game in trading stocks he who has the most machines wins. But how much do you lose?