By Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge Formal central bank independence is increasingly under pressure as societal preferences for a lender of last resort savior grow ever stronger (and more priced into nominal risk markets) as do demands...
Read MoreBy Masood Ahmed (via iMFDirect) The issue of how to create more jobs is high on the minds of policymakers everywhere. The economies of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries–Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes The emerging world will push global energy demand 30 percent higher by 2040, according to ExxonMobil’s Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 (copy embeded below). The report contains some interesting...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse. Considering the power and the...
Read MoreBy Jos? Vi?als (via iMFDirect) Since September of last year, risks to global financial stability have deepened, notably in the euro area. However, over the past few weeks, markets have been encouraged by measures to provide...
Read MoreBy Michael Pettis Before starting on the subject of debt I wanted to make a quick reference to something sent to me by Charles Horner, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. I am glad to say that the overinvestment thesis is...
Read MoreBy Roberto De Primis The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) was created in May 2010. It works under Luxembourg law and is considered as a company, not an institution (for those trying to make any parallel between the...
Read MoreBy Bruce Krasting Next Wednesday, between 12:30 and 2PM, we will get a ton of new information to digest and analyze. The Federal Reserve will make a series of statements while unveiling its new communication effort. A portion of...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes The Milken Institute released its 2011 list of Best-Performing Cities Index and topping the list of 200 large U.S. metropolitan areas was San Antonio, Texas, home of U.S. Global Investors. The Alamo City jumped...
Read MoreBy Martin Denholm While the Republican presidential candidates bicker over, well, pretty much everything, they’ve found at least one thing they agree on: raising fists against President Obama’s nixing of the Keystone...
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