The Great Shrinking American Dollar – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in November 12th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, American Dollar, Blog, Currencies, Currency, Decline, Definite Possibility, Depreciation, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Lows, Midst, Nytimes

The American dollar is in the midst of a large fall in its value, or depreciation, as measured against other major currencies. The decline has been steady since 2002 and our currency is down about 35 percent from that peak. After strengthening slightly more than 10 percent during the global financial crisis of the past [...]

Asia’s Easy-Money Policies: Fueling New Bubbles? – TIME

Posted by Matt in July 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Asia, Financial, Amp, Asia, Asset Price, Blogged, Easy Money, Economists, Fear, Flock Browser, Global Recession, Greed, Lows, Price Bubbles, Shanghai Stock Market, Signs, Stock Prices, Stocks, Swinging

But now, with surprising speed, fear in Asia is swinging back to greed as the region shows signs of recovery — and some economists are warning that asset-price bubbles that had been popped by the global recession may be reinflating. Property and stock prices are soaring in many parts of Asia. For example, the main [...]

The World in 2009

Posted by Matt in March 1st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, 2009, Amp, Bank Of England, Barbarous Relic, Business People, Credit Creation, Economist, Enormity, Financial Markets, Forecast, Forecast 2009, Global Financial System, Governments, Images, Journalists, Lows, Marketoracle, Measurements, Municipal Budget, Oracle, Oracle Financial, Pdf File, politicians, Proxy, Similar Pages

The World in 2009 is the 23rd edition of The Economist’s annual collection of predictions for the year ahead—with views from journalists, politicians and business people.
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Rising Ambitions, Sinking Population

Posted by Matt in October 25th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Demographics, Russia, Ambitions, Dangerous Period, Disaster, Doorstep, End Of Communism, Exit Strategy, Fortunes, Foundations, Immigration, kremlin, Lows, Midst, Nuclear Weapons, Oil And Gas, Parlous, Rulers, Russia Population, Russian Federation, Russian Nation, Windfall Profits

Russia is in the midst of a genuine demographic disaster from which its rulers have no obvious exit strategy. Although the Russia’s fortunes (and the Kremlin’s ambitions) have waxed on a decade of windfall profits from oil and gas, the human foundations of the Russian nation — the ultimate sources of the country’s wealth and [...]

State of the World’s Future

Posted by Matt in August 18th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Demographics, Energy, Water, general, Armed Conflict, Cereal, Energy Prices, Financial Crisis, Food Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Global Prospects, Great Depression, Half The World, High Energy, Larry Edelson, Lows, Mortgage Defaults, Root Cause, Social Instability, State Governments, Term Rally, Walk In The Park, War On Terrorism, Water Pollution, World Population, World Wide War

by Larry EdelsonI’ll discuss the state of the markets shortly. First, I’d like to discuss the state of the world’s future.
According to a long-term study just released by the U.S. Naval Services Department, a series of tipping points could dramatically alter the global prospects for economic growth and humanity — for the worse.
Right now, for [...]