TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Well, it’s official: “Japan Inc.” is now “Bank of Japan Inc.” Oh, OK, not officially official, but just about. As the Nikkei Asian Review reports, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is now a top-10 shareholder in a whopping 40% of the listed companies in the country. That’s right, having purchased 25 trillion yen ($227 billion) worth of exchange-traded Read More…
America is in a funk. Slipping into an economic and cultural morass and at risk of losing its footing on the global chessboard, American workers find themselves working harder than ever and still falling further and further behind. How can this be? Flailing for an answer, they find it in the mouth of a politician Read More…
“Abandon all hope ye who enter here.” That, famously, is the inscription above the gates of hell in Dante’s Inferno, and, if Uncle Sam gets his way, it will be the first thing that comes to mind for any company seeking to skirt the sanctions on Iran that are snapping back into place in the coming Read More…
As the financial world is in a near constant state of chaos of late, from the stock market and cryptocurrency markets to trade wars and the slowly dying petrodollar, it is becoming clear that some massive changes are on the horizon. Whether they will ultimately be good or bad for the average investor is unclear, Read More…
Tariffs, counter-tariffs and headlines about trade wars are flowing like wine as the long-anticipated Trump campaign against China is finally shaping up. Given that futures are tumbling, the US trade deficit has just hit a decade low, and, oh yeah, we haven’t seen market volatility like this since the crash of ’87 you might think we have enough ominous financial storm clouds to Read More…
For the people of the U.S., mostly 55 and above, who have been living under the rule of the Federal Government all their lives, with the notion that politicians can do no wrong, it is hard to understand why some of us want currency, and indeed even money itself, to be outside the reach of governments, Read More…