Category: Macroeconomics
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DJIA plummets: divorce lawyers shudder as poor sexless couples grope each other in the night
“The National Marriage Project dubbed the drop in divorce ‘a silver lining’ to the Great Recession,” stated The L.A. Times, “arguing that tough times were pulling many husbands and wives closer together.”
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![DJIA surges as democrats gear up to nominate a male Hilary Clinton]()
DJIA surges as democrats gear up to nominate a male Hilary Clinton
Investors have legitimate reason to want four more years of Trump. Ignoring the recent coronavirus-catalysed carnage, the markets have performed well during the Trump presidency.
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5 Reasons your blue-chip stocks are tanking – and no – it’s not the corona virus
The recent blood-bath in blue-chip stocks was catalysed by the spread of the coronavirus, but there are 5 underlying causes that have made it so dramatic and ugly.
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5 Reasons your blue-chip stocks are tanking – and no – it’s not the corona virus
The recent blood-bath in blue-chip stocks was catalysed by the spread of the coronavirus, but there are 5 underlying causes that have made it so dramatic and ugly.
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![Stocks tank, gold surges – my locked-down communist wife tells a grim COVID19 virus story]()
Stocks tank, gold surges – my locked-down communist wife tells a grim COVID19 virus story
“While the comparison to SARS may provide some guidance, important changes have been experienced in China and the Chinese gold market since the 2003 outbreak,” stated the WGC.
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![Powell: “Nothing about this expansion that is unstable”]()
Powell: “Nothing about this expansion that is unstable”
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the Fed is keeping a close eye on the possible fallout and impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Powell hasn’t made any claims yet as to what this means either in terms of possible liquidity injections or a rate cut. Let’s examine that.
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Germany’s corporate codetermination – cunningly co-committed or cataclysmically codependent?
Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act (ACA) threatens to level the corporate playing field in America by bringing labor into the boardroom. Understandably, industrial lobbyists have crawled out of the rot of Washington’s woodwork to lambaste the ACA as a useless partisan ploy bent on destroying U.S. entrepreneurial spirit. So, is corporate codetermination cunningly co-committed or…
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![Pepsi, Nestle and Amazon: asymmetric risk and monopoly control]()
Pepsi, Nestle and Amazon: asymmetric risk and monopoly control
Two hundred years after the Sherman Anti-trust Act brought about the fall of Rockefeller’s monopoly control, Bernie Saunders and Elizabeth Warren pushed for America to once again decide whether Pepsi (PEP.NASDAQ), Nestle (NESN.SWX) and Amazon (AMZN.NASDAQ) are agreeable corporate spouses or abusive partners slipping in after a trial separation, but in the age of post-modern…
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![Markets and the Middle East: A look at Gold, Oil, and Student Debt]()
Markets and the Middle East: A look at Gold, Oil, and Student Debt
BREAKING: Boeing 737 Jet Crashes in Iran due to technical issues after takeoff. Source (ISNA) Oil Stuff & The Middle East At least two airbases housing US troops in Iraq have been hit by more than a dozen ballistic missiles. Iranian state TV says the attack is a direct retaliation to the US killing top…
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![Explaining the violent explosion of Canadians who can not pay their bills]()
Explaining the violent explosion of Canadians who can not pay their bills
A high bankruptcy rate may intuitively seem like a bad thing, but straight-faced “financial experts” argue that bankruptcies are a proxy for imaginative risk-taking – and therefore a good thing.
