US inflation for July has officially cooled to 8.5%. That’s a decent reprieve from the 41-year high figure of 9.1% in June. For investors, this is a good sign that ‘peak inflation’ may really be behind us.
US foreign policy experts Hal Brands and Michael Beckley raised this possibility in an article in Foreign Affairs in October 2021. It’s not that China believes it’s superior to the US. It’s that China has realised this is as good as it gets. If you want to take Taiwan, you have to try now, because your chances […]
We spent the weekend anxious and unsettled. We were worried about the Judgment of History. What will Wikipedia say about us in the year 5000…about the US…about our wars and our economy? Will we even rate a footnote? Not that we know more than anyone else. But it amuses us to imagine it…guessing that history […]
The truth is that petrol prices can be very volatile, especially when one finds themselves in the middle of an energy crisis.
What’s interesting is that much of the price drop hasn’t come from a supply increase. Instead, what’s pushing petrol prices down is lower demand and consumption.
We start another week. And what’s new? Oh no…not again! The New York Times: ‘As Monkeypox Spreads, U.S. Declares a Health Emergency’: ‘President Biden’s health secretary on Thursday declared the growing monkeypox outbreak a national health emergency, a rare designation signaling that the virus now represents a significant risk to Americans and setting in motion measures aimed […]
In 1973, Jim Rogers and George Soros founded the Quantum Fund. According to Wikipedia: ‘…from 1973 to 1980, the [Quantum Fund] portfolio gained 4,200% while the S&P advanced about 47%.’ In April 2007 (around the time Ben Bernanke was assuring us subprime would be contained), Jim Rogers was again in the news. As reported by Reuters: […]
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