Why Have We Been Switching the Headlines? War Games and the US Dollar
Throughout the ages, war has been the engine of finance. The collusion between Russia and China in the last few weeks and months in order to bypass the US dollar in the international monetary system is equal to – if not more important than – the North...Chinese Slowdown: Potential Ramifications for Asset Allocation
The latest data from Chinese economic activity came in below expectations and point to a possible further slowdown for the next year. Specifically, infrastructure spending dropped and this weighed down industrial production. As fiscal policy becomes less supportive...Echoes of War: Undisciplined Policies in the Context of Historical Developments
Our world has been cycling between chaos and order since the beginning of the modern economic era. We define the modern economic era as the period that started with the confiscation of America’s precious metals (mainly Peru’s and Mexico’s) in the middle of the 16th...Jackson Hole and the 10th Anniversary from the Financial Crisis: QExit and Prospects
The central bankers’ conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming ended last week, and with it several questions arose as we reached the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis started showing its ugly face. During that period a number of assets classes have more than...The Ataraxia (Tranquility) of the Market and Its Breath: Stoic, Epicurean, or Sceptic?
It has been well-recorded that the equity market’s volatility is pretty low by historical standards as the following 10-year graph shows. This kind of ataraxia (tranquility) may be the equivalent of the period when the Platonic and Aristotelian Schools of Thought were...Sign Up for Our Publications
