The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left the cash rate at 4.25% last week. But one by one, the Big Four banks are raising their rates anyway.
February 13th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "sovereign debt"
A Crash Proof Investment Strategy
Financial markets and institutions are mighty unstable no matter where you look these days. Europe, America, China, Australia. Where are you supposed to go to invest your money?
February 11th, 2012 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | Continued
Vulnerable to External Influences – The Economic State of Australia (Part I)
Australia’s future is inextricably linked to China and the commodity “super boom”. Australian economic prospects remain vulnerable to international developments outside its control.
February 9th, 2012 | The Daily Reckoning | 2 comments | Continued
Stock Market Hindsight Versus Market Foresight
Occasionally we receive comments along the lines of ‘you try to push the market lower’ or ‘talk the market down’. Some mistake our realism for grumpiness. Or assume we just don’t like it when the stock market goes up. While flattering, we must admit we have no control over the stock market whatsoever.
February 9th, 2012 | The Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued
Why Europe’s Plan to End the Debt Crisis Can’t and Won’t Work
The actions need to try to stabilize the European debt crisis are well recognized. But Even if measures could be implemented as soon as possible, success is not assured. However without them, the chance of a disorderly collapse is increasingly significant.
February 8th, 2012 | The Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued
A Question of Currency: Should Australians Invest in the Fourth Reich?
The first thing to think about, if you’re a foreign investor in another region, is currencies. Well, it may not quite be the first thing, but keep in mind: movements in currencies can make or break investment returns.
January 30th, 2012 | Nickolai Hubble | 0 comments | Continued
Currency Wars
The currency wars are heating up. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke promised speculators he would keep interest rates low until 2014.
January 27th, 2012 | Greg Canavan | 1 comment | Continued
How “Adjusting for Slippage” Adds to Sovereign Debt Woes
“Adjusting for slippage” is the latest government fashion…and it is expensive. “Governments of the world’s leading economies have more than $7.6 trillion of debt maturing this year,” Bloomberg News reports, “with most facing a rise in borrowing costs.”
January 20th, 2012 | Eric J. Fry | 0 comments | Continued
Debts With Unsolvable Insolvency
Even before debt became such a big problem, real growth had already begun to disappear from the developed world. There has been none in Japan for the last 20 years…and almost no real growth in the US private sector for the last 10 years. In Europe, grosso modo, the story is similar.
January 18th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The Next Bubble in China’s Economy
We’ve battled this argument before, so we apologise if we repeat ourselves. But it needs to be said because the mainstream media continues to talk gibberish about China’s economy. This is the argument: a falling inflation rate in China allows the authorities to ease monetary policy to avert a hard landing.
January 13th, 2012 | Greg Canavan | 4 comments | Continued
6 Things Governments Might Do To You This Christmas
The break over Christmas is a pretty convenient time for politicians to spring something unexpected on you. Well, unexpected for those who don’t read the Daily Reckoning, that is.
So here is a list of things the governments of the world might unleash on you and your portfolio over the holidays:
December 24th, 2011 | Nickolai Hubble | 7 comments | Continued
Why Europe’s Fiscal Integration Still Spells Financial Doom
Financial markets will tell you whether private investors believe greater “fiscal integration” is the long-term answer to Europe’s debt problem. We can save you the trouble and tell you the answer now: Europe is still doomed.
December 12th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
Insider Economy
As the economy is taken over by zombies, more and more people are needed to do the zombies work shifting more and more of the economy’s output to the insiders.
The insiders rig the system for their own benefit. The rigs each one of them a form of price-fixing or central planning weaken the system. In today’s battle, the insiders fight to protect it.
November 24th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
The Members of European Parliament (MEP) Sideshow
The Members of European Parliament are in the limelight again, expected to solve their fellow politicians’ fiscal problems.
Once again, they are bouncing off walls – this time figuratively, as far as we know. Alongside them are central bankers, IMFers and gaggles of other geese ruffling each other’s feathers.
November 5th, 2011 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | Continued
EFSFs, CDOs, CDSs … Or Just Gold?
The combination of political deadlock in Greece and the fact that the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) will be funded by debt and not money printing has caught investors off guard recently. They failed to discount the ability of politicians to find other options in their attempts to exhaust all other options before turning to the inevitable one. Hence the falling markets of late.
November 5th, 2011 | Nickolai Hubble | 0 comments | Continued
