Following the Great Financial Crisis and the pandemic, we have seen a collapse of globalization and a return to protectionism. Global supply lines came under extreme pressure in 2020 when world governments effectively shut down economies for 18 months. As a direct result of a weak US foreign policy under the Obama and Biden administrations, […]
With an 87 percent plunge in US stock market prices during the Great Depression, people across the nation were forced to queue for food and other essentials. It is a period of stock market history still studied by scholars of interest rates and equity returns. It is striking to me that in photos of the Great […]
The main four central banks and government treasury departments are happy to keep printing an unlimited amount of fiat money, further driving up debt which can never be repaid.
The series of account closures underlines the fact that there is a toxic culture at the top, just as we saw when those responsible for failure in the subprime credit crash and world banking crisis were rewarded – remaining unpunished to this day
Don’t forget to sell while you have profit. Have a clear price target and exit strategy before buying
Whilst heightened uncertainty and fear grips savers and investors in global financial markets, some unlikely bedfellows—namely China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran—are discussing a closer economic and strategic alliance: a direct repost to US foreign policy in the region. At the same time, the most powerful emerging economies (BRICS) have grown tired of living under the […]
The BRICS nations are causing alarm in some ‘Western’ financial circles as they seek to strengthen their trading alliance reflecting their ability to be large producers and consumers. BRICS has a common goal of creating better trade and financial conditions for each other, and as a potential by-product to possibly create an alternative to USD […]
Another day, week, month and year – another financial crisis causing havoc. We have seen this show before, and experienced traders should make sure friends who are ‘newbies’ are prepared for what is going to happen next. And what is next is: unknown. People who believe they can profit from the current mess in the […]
I recall my first night in Vietnam, sipping a large whisky on the terrace of a hotel which had seen better times. A relic of French Colonial rule and now the only hotel in Saigon with a barman. It was September 1974. The few journalists that remained in the city and a handful of off-duty […]
As the fall and contagion from the recent failure of the crypto exchange FTX and its associated hedge fund Alameda Research reverberates around Wall Street and the Crypto markets, I feel it would be helpful to reassure our clients of how we hold crypto in our investment strategy. Most of the damage has been done […]
