2010

by Lars Schall Folker Hellmeyer, chief analyst at Bremer Landesbank, gave an exclusive interview to chaostheorien.de. Yesterday we ran the first part of that interview with his take on the so called “Currency Wars,”China's role as a…

by Marc Chandler Russia is the last of the major countries that has not joined the World Trade Organization. The importance of the WTO may not be so much in liberalizing trade as negotiations take years. The WTO predecessor was GATT, which…

by Win Thin Chatter about possible Brazil rate hike today is picking up after November IPCA inflation rose 0.83% m/m and 5.63% y/y. The y/y rate is the highest since February 2009, when the SELIC policy rate was 12.75%. While there is a…

Highlights The US dollar headed higher amid a rise in tension on the Korean Peninsula and more importantly a surge in US bond yields with the 10-year increasing by 7bp today. The euro tested levels under $1.320 but sovereign support,…

David Galland gives us his views on WikiLeaks, government spending, the Wesley Snipes tax case and more. Plus see Casey Research's interview with Ron Paul on an insider's insights into the situation in Washington today.

For months, Ben Bernanke has been more or less pleading with fiscal policymakers to catch up to him. With yesterday’s announced agreement on tax cuts and the extension of unemployment benefits, Congress and the Administration are making the…

Daily links today include more on quantitative easing, the inflation-deflation debate and the European debt crisis. Also see a number of bullish data reports that point to recovery. The key obstacles remain housing, commodity price…

by Marc Chandler India's Finance Ministry raised its economic forecast for the year ending March 31, 2011. Back in Feb it had forecast 8.25%-8.75% growth and today increased that forecast to as much as 9.1%. Ironically, the increase in the…

This is a very good debate between Garry Shilling, a prominent deflationista, and Peter Schiff, a prominent inflationista, because it shows you the core substance of the arguments on the inflation-deflation debate. I am calling this one for…

by Lars Schall Folker Hellmeyer, chief analyst at Bremer Landesbank, gave an exclusive interview to chaostheorien.de, with his take on the so called “Currency Wars” and China's role as a stabilizing factor in the world economy. Moreover,…