What’s With All The Superweapons?
Because apparently the world isn’t complex and scary enough, the major powers have decided to unveil a bunch of “superweapons” capable of, um, unique kinds...
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Internal Bleeding, Cheap Tech, And Falling Angels
Think of “market internals” as the blood pressure and insulin levels of the financial world. They operate below the surface, frequently unnoticed, but over time...
Chinese Debt Snowball Gathering Momentum
Financial crises can happen quickly, like the bursting of the tech stock bubble in early 2000, or slowly, like the late-1980s junk bond bust. The...
Welcome To The Currency War, Part 20: Corporate Profits Head South, Stock Prices To Follow?
A too-strong currency is, in theory, supposed to make it harder to sell things to cheap-currency countries, thus crimping corporate profits and by implication pretty...
Are Superbugs A Bigger Threat To The Global Economy Than Terrorism?
Between that Russian plane being taken down by a soda can bomb and the recent Paris attacks, travel is losing some of its appeal. Last...
The End Of The Recovery, In One Chart
One of the questions on analysts’ minds lately is whether stock prices can keep moving up when corporate sales and profits are falling. But the...
Is Anybody Okay Out There?
In normal times, the world’s major economies are a mixed bag. Some are up, some are down, some are placid, some are in crisis. It’s...
Corporations Are Liquidating Themselves, One Buyback At A Time
In every bubble there are trends so obviously crazy that it’s hard to see how anyone, let alone mainstream money managers, can buy in. And...
The 1% Is Rolling Over
Today’s financial world is a tough place for the average person, but paradise for rich guys. As easy money raises asset prices, the owners of...
When History Rhymes: The Roman Empire, The European Union, And Mass Migration
This weekend’s Paris attacks, occurring in the middle of one of history’s largest mass-migrations, has the feel of uncharted territory. But it’s actually an eerie...