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$80 Trillion Derivatives Market

The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has warned in its latest quarterly report that there is $80 trillion dollar in off-balance sheet dollar debt in the form of FX swaps. This has involved pension funds and other ‘non-bank’ financial firms. What they do not explain is that each “debt” has a counterparty that has an […]

Meloni Set to Abolish Italy’s Welfare State

Italy’s new PM Giorgia Meloni revealed her first economic initiatives with a budget of 21 billion euros. The Italian government will no longer provide free handouts to those who simply refuse to work. This should not be controversial. For starters, anyone eligible for welfare must actually reside in Italy. Those capable of working will have […]

FTX & Crypto-Implosion

  The collapse of the FTX Exchange is pretty straightforward insofar as this is the same lesson that constantly repeats in finance time and time again. Basically, FTX lent US$10bn of client funds to their trading arm Alameda, which used it for leveraged their own crypto speculation because the crypto market has been collapsing. Typically, […]

Liz Truss’ Approval Plummets

Truss inherited a beaten-down United Kingdom. The Bank of England declared that a recession was inevitable, sterling continues to fall, pension funds are evaporating, and the death of the queen caused an overall feeling of pessimism. Recent polls show that Truss is actually less popular than her predecessor Boris Johnson, even when Johnson was under […]

Market Talk – October 7, 2022

ASIA:   China’s GDP forecast is to be anywhere between 2.2 percent and 4.1 percent based on a survey conducted by Nikkei last month. Economists and other observers, globally, have also revised the GDP outlook for 2022 to 3.2 percent against Beijing’s official target of 5.5 percent. Compared to the second quarter when the economy […]

Market Talk – October 3, 2022

ASIA:   The biggest drop in China’s cement production in at least two decades has dragged global production of the building material into decline, showing how the crisis in the country’s vast real estate sector has hit other industries that rely on it for growth. Global cement production fell 8 percent year-on-year to 1.9 billion […]

Deutsche Bank CEO Says a Recession is Inevitable

Yet another head of the financial system is coming out and warning that a recession is inevitable. Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing echoed the words of BoE’s Governor Andrew Bailey and blamed the coming recession on the war in Ukraine. “We will no longer be able to avert a recession in Germany. Yet we believe […]

Bidenomics & Vilification of Trump

  QUESTION: The general view is that Trump has turned the Republican Party into his Party – Trumpism. You seem to support Trump. Would would respectfully explain why? DH ANSWER: This is a very clever tactic by the Democrats to try to turn Republicans against the Republican Party and to vote for the Democrats while […]

Defaults & Stupidity

The West has forced Russia into its first foreign debt default since 1918. You really have to wonder exactly how our world leaders rationalize their reasoning. Strangely, this was actually cyclically on target. It was two groups of 6 waves of 8.6 years, making it 104 years. It is interesting how Socrates had targeted that […]

The West’s Refusal to Seek World Peace

  The press has done nothing but put forward present propaganda and they are driving the world into the arms of death. Once upon a time, the world leaders gathered together for a conference in Munich to discuss WORLD PEACE and SECURITY. Today, they seem to conspire on how to bring the world into the […]