Today, almost everywhere, public pension programs are underfunded. Almost all the world’s governments are deep in debt. GDP growth rates have slowed to a crawl. Productivity — under the weight of so much social welfare regulation — is failing. And populations are peaking out.at…
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, analysts and investors tend to go country-by-country in their reviews, but Jim Rickards begins a new series of articles by asking the question, ‘Are we on the same planet?’ before taking us on a ‘trip’ around the world. Read on to find out more…
It’s Martin Luther King Jr Day. A holiday in the US, but not for the team, spread out between Laramie, London, Buenos Aires, and Paris.
The US ‘defence’ industry has long since given up any pretence to be defending the US. Since the Second World War, all its undertakings have been ‘wars of choice’…offensive operations in which it meddled in the affairs of sovereign foreign nations
With no deficits to finance, the Fed would have had no compelling reason to manipulate interest rates. Federal debt, if left where it was when Bill Clinton moved out of the White House, would be about five and a half trillion, not US$31 trillion.
In today’s Daily Reckoning Australia, Jim presents his fourth and final article in his series on yield curves and market signals. Read on to find out more…
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