16 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Travails Of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold & The Imperial Dollar
Travails Of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold & The Imperial Dollar
“We are imperial, and we are in decline… People are losing confidence in the Empire.”
This is the key theme of Larry Wilkerson’s presentation. He never really questions whether empire is good or bad, sustainable or not, and at what costs. At least he does not so in the same manner as that great analyst of empire Chalmers Johnson.
16 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Gold – Why is legendary hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller buying?
Gold – Why is legendary hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller buying?
I posted earlier that Stanley Druckenmiller bought a big new stake in gold ETF … and that its his largest single holding
Ahraf Ladi has more on the ‘why’ of Druckenmiller is buying gold and copper:
16 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Video: Video: Indonesia’s missing Trigana plane believed found
Video: Video: Indonesia’s missing Trigana plane believed found
An Indonesian airliner carrying 54 people lost contact with ground control Sunday.
16 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Westpac chief economist says he is surprised by market still expecting RBA cuts
Westpac chief economist says he is surprised by market still expecting RBA cuts
Some comments from Westpac chief economist Bill Evans today:
He is surprised that markets have persisted in maintaining a 90%
probability of another 25 basis point rate cut by the RBA by mid next
year and a 50% probability of a cut by November
16 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on 3 Stocks That Could Make Huge Moves This Week
3 Stocks That Could Make Huge Moves This Week
With two important variables colliding, these three stocks could have a wild week on Wall Street.
16 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on FT party pooper … daily setting of yuan reference rate has returned to being a non-event
FT party pooper … daily setting of yuan reference rate has returned to being a non-event
From FastFT … speaking the truth … but still 🙁
Excitement … over?
16 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on China stockmarkets – early indications show Shanghai Comp. set to open down 0.4%
China stockmarkets – early indications show Shanghai Comp. set to open down 0.4%
OK … so the excitement seems to have come out of the yuan … for today at least
Can we go back to trashing the Chinese stock markets again (not maliciously, of course …. that would be illegal 😀 )?