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Michael Snyder: What in the world is going on in Europe (NYSEArca:VGK)? Each day things just seem to get stranger and stranger. We are being told that a “deal” for a second Greek bailout has been reached and that Greece will not default in March. But behind the scenes it seems clear that many politicians Read more…
JR Crooks: It’s no secret that the world’s central bankers and governments are cranking out money at lightning speed to stave off a global depression. Read more…
David Gillie: Greece survives from media headline to media headline like a fading Hollywood starlet’s career. I quit doing the math when the “pledged” bailouts exceeded their total debt several times over. Read more…
Sy Harding: Kudos to central banks. The eurozone debt crisis produced two years of fears that it would result in financial collapse and a severe recession in Europe (NYSEArca:VGK) that would spread Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Wonder why European leaders appear more like a rotating cast of bumbling 3 Stooges than a team of coordinated fraternal bureaucrats throughout the debt crisis in Read more…
Michael Snyder: Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail. Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt. Unfortunately, no debt bubble can last Read more…
Jack Barnes: If you listen to the talking heads, there is no end in sight to the Euro crisis. Even with the European Central Bank’s (ECB) recent Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO), Greece is still making all the headlines. Read more…
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Jack Crooks: If you are wondering why the euro (NYSEArca:FXE) rallied sharply over the last couple of weeks, hitting a two-month high against the dollar (NYSEArca:UUP) on Thursday, the answer is that Read more…
Jeff Harding: We need to follow Greece because their default and withdrawal from the eurozone (NYSEArca:VGK) would set off major consequences to the European Monetary Union, and thus the EU, Read more…
Michael Snyder: Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like? Just look at Greece. Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing Read more…
Michael Snyder: If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically? Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators. In other words, they change before the overall Read more…
JR Crooks: I wrote this in Money and Markets on January 14 regarding my outlook for the euro: Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: Last August, I mentioned in a post (I forget which one) that when gold (NYSEArca:GLD) hit $1900, I was a seller. In late September, I suggested that municipal bonds were better buys than gold, and indeed muni yields have collapsed. Meanwhile, gold has churned for Read more…
Michael Snyder: An economic nightmare is descending on Europe. With each passing month, the economic numbers across Europe get even worse. At this point it is becoming extremely difficult for Read more…
Marta Dhanis: The World Bank is making $27 billion in funding available over the next two years for countries of emerging Europe (NYSEArca:VGK) and Central Asia impacted by the euro zone crisis. Read more…
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