urbanization and the frenzied real estate investment that has accompanied them run into the brick wall ofnewdecades with consistentlyfewerbuyers — and that doesn't mean "fewer buyers" in the normal sense of a bubble popping, but the literal absence...
Share this: Reddit Another look at the Chinese M1 gap – still a bit more room for easing This morning the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) cut its key policy rate by 25bp to 5.1% – undoubtedly reacting to worries about slowing growth. The question is whether such a cut is warranted ...
Reddit LinkedIn Tumblr Facebook Twitter More Like this:LikeLoading... While AFRICOM has reached its tenth anniversary with talk of a drawdown of troop deployments on the Continent and HQ firmly in Stuttgart, Germany, China has used these years to grow out its African military and arm sales re...
Chinabecause the people would be frightened and begin to rebel. The media wants you to believe that China is “experimenting” with digital IDs that are linked to bank accounts and impacted by social credit scores, but they’re already there. TikTok is one of the last platforms where users ...
Entering the Superbubble’s Final Act By Jeremy Grantham “The current superbubble features an unprecedentedly dangerous mix of cross-asset overvaluation (with bonds, housing, and stocks all critically overpriced and now rapidly losing momentum), commodity shock, an...
Unlike in the US where the blue/green bubble is the deal breaker. The iPhone is a feature sparse for the asking price. Given a choice between a Tacoma (can handle any kind of pavement, a workhorse, reliably as the sunrise) and $150K pocket money or a Ferrari (really fast on s...
It was during one of these long and arduous sessions that I stumbled upon a post on Reddit, singing the praises of Cyberpunk Programmers. With nothing left to lose and my back against the wall, I decided to reach out to them, praying that it wasn’t too late to turn the tide in my...
The 2000s began with the Federal Reserve narrowly missing the zero lower bound on short-term interest rates. Then the US needed a housing bubble to attain full-ish employment in the mid-2000s, a decade that ended with the US and other major economies f...
At this point I expected them to pick up the six mini cakes—which were already housed on cute little plastic plates with a clear bubble cover–and place them in one of the boxes I saw behind the counter. But this is what two of them did: Placed each mini cake (still in its ...
China has created the largest credit and fixed investment bubble as a share of GDP in all of world history, with the possible exceptions of the Egyptian pyramids and China’s Great Wall. 🙂 All bubbles burst. The largest bubbles burst spectacularly. ...