Brexit Fears Are Deliberately Overblown
As the June 23rd BREXIT (the UK-wide referendum to leave the EU) vote draws near, the polls indicate a close result. Those urging a vote for the UK to remain inside the EU are suggesting increasingly...
View ArticleA Brexit In Name Only?
The BREXIT vote on June 23rd was part of a growing global trend in which ordinary people are expressing a desire to retain national sovereignty regardless of the cost and suffering that may be...
View ArticleUK's Prime Minister Commits To Successful Brexit
Despite months of fear mongering by former Prime Minister David Cameron and his allies in late June, accompanied by doomsday global economic forecasts offered by the International Monetary Fund and the...
View ArticleGlobalization Faces Challenges
For much of the second half of the 20th Century, and even into the new millennium, "Globalization" was the dominant theme used to describe the drift of the world economy. It was widely considered both...
View ArticleWar On Cash Spreads To India
Over the past year, central banks, commercial bankers and prominent economists have expressed the view that digital money and transfers should replace large denomination cash and cash transactions....
View ArticleItaly's Bank Rescue Foreshadows Nationalization Of More EU Banks
On December 7, 2016, Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned following defeat in a national referendum, that he had supported, that would have changed the country's parliamentary system. The...
View ArticleBritain Needs Trump For Smooth Brexit
At the Washington joint press conference with Prime Minister May held on January 27th, President Trump told the watching world, "Brexit is going to be a wonderful thing." The meeting did much to clear...
View ArticleBritish Election Sends Shockwaves Felt Here And Abroad
Last week's General Election in the United Kingdom was a disaster for the new conservative government of Prime Minster Theresa May. Having called the unnecessary "snap" elections in order to strengthen...
View ArticleThe EU And Japan Move Closer
Any news that emerged from last week's G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany was bound to be overshadowed by the high theater of the first-ever meeting between U.S. President Trump and Russian President...
View ArticleA New Challenge To The Dollar
In a move that was little noticed outside of the financial world, China announced the creation of an oil futures contract (open to international traders) that will be denominated in Yuan and...
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