Yesterday, Publisher James Woodburn issued a ‘Stop Press’ announcement. ‘Due to the historic recent market price action, we are ceasing the normal publishing schedule’, he said. That means from today onwards, we’ll be sending you special updates on the unfolding market action. To kick things off, we have a special video recording for you. In […]
Macroeconomic News: Insights into Economic Trends and Developments
When Even Cash Carries Risk
Investors are heading for the safety of cash. Is this the right move? Well, it’s not one completely without risk either.
Worrying Signs for Big Four Bank Stocks, NAB Share Price Sheds Most
The four pillars of Australia’s financial sector (the Big Four banks) have taken a serious beating, as low interest rates and the Coronavirus scare threatens to eat away at their margins. The NAB share price in particular is shedding the most…
Heading into Negative Interest Rates — Real Rates and Nominal Rates
Last July I was in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, along with a host of monetary elites, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference that established the post-Second World War international monetary system.
Will the Coronavirus Be the Grisly End to a 28-Year Run?
I narrowly escaped coronavirus recently.
We left the hospital here in London with our newborn daughter just two days before an infected patient showed up, having arrived in an Uber…
Is the Rate of Diseases We’ve Not Seen Before Speeding Up?
Maybe the coronavirus is part of the acceleration of new disease. After all, we only just got through Zika in 2015–16. There was the Ebola outbreak in 2014. Before that was MERS in 2012. Then H1N1 (swine flu) in 2009. And then there was SARS in 2002 and 2004.
