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By James Knightley With trade tensions likely to escalate, this Wednesday's Fed meeting looks set to confirm market expectations - precautionary interest rate cuts are coming. After hiking interest rates four times in 2018, the Federal Reserve has taken a more cautious approach to ...

This article is a wake-up call for those who do not understand the true purpose of monetary inflation, and do not realise they are the suckers being robbed by monetary policy. With the world facing a deepening recession, monetary inflation will accelerate again. It is time for everyone to reco...

The US deficit this year is already over three-quarters of a trillion dollars, putting the first eight months of the fiscal year almost equal with the entire past fiscal year. It is also $200 billion above the previous record for this portion of the year, and this May's deficit alone was 40% h...

"Wednesday's Child" comes from the nursery rhyme of the 19th century that was supposedly used in the area of fortune telling by the day of one's birth in rhyme. "Wednesday's Child" is said to be "full of woe." Seems fitting that this Wednesday will conclude one of the most (yes, most!) impor...

When the market falls in the trap of wishful thinking History warns us about not confusing what is true versus what we wish to be true , as Ray Dalio identified in his book Principles. Yet wishful thinking - the attribution of reality to what one wants to believe - is one of the most co...

Investment thesis The basic thesis is that it takes bulls to make a bull market, and the long bond ( TLT ) now has both the technical and fundamental backdrop to complete the bull market move it has made since the bottom of the bond bear market last October. I'll begin with some technical po...

Originally published June 14, 2019 My couch, jeans, car, PC, sheets, and phone weigh in on globalization and the internet. Retail sales, not including sales at restaurants and bars, in May rose 3.1% from a year earlier, according to the Commerce Department this morning. That's not ex...

We're Worried Because Any change in interest rates, in either direction, is the major macroeconomic factor we're worried about as investors. It's the great unknown in the current economy, which way are central banks going to jump? As long as we don't see inflation coming then we can assume t...

By Darren Williams As global growth prospects have weakened, the world of central banking has been turned upside-down. But while the US Federal Reserve (Fed) has already hinted at a change of course, the European Central Bank ((ECB)) is still struggling to adapt to the new reality. It's ...

"The perfect storm" has become a cliché, but the current setup for a 2019 recession just became so text-book perfect in alignment of the three most critical recessionary forces that I have to use it. Let me start by noting that a stock market that rallies because the news is bad - as ha...