In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, it’s becoming ever more difficult to ignore the global sovereign debt crisis. Governments are just too far gone to get debt to GDP ratios back under control. They must either inflate away their borrowings, or default. Unless, of course, they use that other option from 300 years ago…
By Nick Hubble,
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, half of Australia’s journalists are worried about declining demographics. The other half are worried about the negative impacts of immigration. If only they could all meet over coffee to do the maths and rejoice at the conclusion: Thanks to an endless supply of willing immigrants, Australia is one of the few countries that will avoid a sovereign debt crisis caused by demographics.
By Nick Hubble,
It’s very rare for stocks to have two down years in a row. But does that really mean the prospects for 2023 are bright?
By Nick Hubble,
You might’ve seen articles that it was the second or fourth worst year, depending on the political leanings of the newspaper you read. As ever, it’s a game of picking and choosing numbers to get the conclusions you want.
By Nick Hubble,
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, while you’re enjoying the holidays this Christmas, don’t forget to keep one eye on the Japanese financial markets. Because a monetary Pearl Harbor might be in the works to ruin 2023 before it even gets started.
By Nick Hubble,
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, Australia is full of natural resources. Australian miners were too lucky, lazy, or technologically backwards to bother digging deep. Until now. A new exploration boom has begun down under Down Under.
By Nick Hubble,
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, it’s a simple enough question. What matters more — the level of interest rates or their magnitude and direction of change? And yet, we don’t know the answer. Nor, as a result, what monetary policy should be.
By Nick Hubble,
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, we rely on central banks to run the economy and financial system. So, what if they haven’t got the slightest idea what they’re doing? What if they’re making it up as they go along and are causing more harm than good? Well, now we know…
By Nick Hubble,
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, every box would’ve been ticked back then…double-digit inflation forced them to take action…and what happens next?
By Nick Hubble,
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, Margaret Thatcher once said that ‘the trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money’. How wrong she was. Money isn’t something that socialists ever run short of — they can always print more. It’s real stuff they lack. And that’s what we’re rediscovering right now…
By Nick Hubble,
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