| Cosima F. Barone | Vol. XVII - Issue #246 | Mar. 09, 2018 |
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Global Financial Markets Reckoning
Ever since it bottomed out at the end of March 2009, the overall market capitalization has been reaching out to its March 31, 2000, peak. How will markets react when the debt-stressed consumers decide to bank their gains from the tax cut, instead of spending the money? ... Read more
A Fractured World: Nationalist Insurgency & Trade Wars
Is the global liberal order in danger? After decades when the world has been dominated by the United States as their influence remained unrivaled in so many segments (economy, U.S. Dollar, trade and defense) over the rest of the globe, are there strategic alliances or emerging global trends that could potentially shake the world order as we know it? ... Read more
A Glance At World's Insightful News
In Focus: ECB, EUROPEAN UNION, CHINA, INDIA, ITALY, JAPAN, USA - OPEC & non-OPEC
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How is that defined? The tax plans in Congress essentially say a wealthy individual earns $400,000 a year. But that figure, a financial psychologist says, is “arbitrary.”
By Paul Sullivan
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 2021
The New York governor signed a bill on Friday that authorized the release of the detainees, but the population of the city’s notorious jail will remain far higher than it was last spring.
By Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Chelsia Rose Marcius
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 2021
Overblown fears that the coronavirus could be transmitted through surfaces have created a stigma around handling nonhazardous trash, experts say. Some recyclable waste has been junked or burned.
By Mike Ives
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 2021
On a recent visit, few civilians were about and signs of heavy fighting were scarce. What remained were opposing narratives and claims of massacres, ethnic cleansing and false charges.
By Jim Huylebroek and Victor J. Blue
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 2021
How a Covid Vaccine Could Lift the Stock.
By Pierre Briançon
Barron`s, Sep. 18, 2021
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The supposed link between buybacks and inequality is unproven.
By Roger Lowenstein
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 2021
In meeting after meeting with their French counterparts, U.S. officials gave no heads-up about their plans to upend France’s largest defense contract.
By David E. Sanger
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 2021
A snap election that was supposed to be a show of strength has instead allowed opponents to highlight the prime minister’s weak points.
By Ian Austen
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 2021
Stephanie Pomboy is once again warning her MacroMavens clients that producer prices are far outpacing consumer prices; the producer-price index rose a record-high 8.3% in August from its year-earlier level, versus 5.3% for the consumer-price index. “The upshot is an implied margin squeeze the likes of which we’ve only seen once before—during the 1970s, when Nixon severed the dollar’s link to gold and imposed 90-day wage and price controls.
By Randall W. Forsyth
Barron`s, Sep. 18, 2021
Remember that guy who ran for mayor of New York City by shouting, “The rent is too damn high?” Chinese authorities have taken his lament to heart, setting “reference prices” for secondary apartment sales in half a dozen expensive cities. That signals a problem that goes well beyond the spectacular crackup of overleveraged developer China Evergrande Group.
By Craig Mellow
Barron`s, Sep. 18, 2021
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Lani Malmberg travels with a few hundred goats, which eat the tall brush and grasses that power Western wildfires.
By Coral Murphy Marcos
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 2021
He joined the country’s fight for independence in the 1950s and helped lead it out of a brutal civil war in the 1990s. He was ousted in 2019 after 20 years in office,
By Amir Jalal Zerdoumi and Carlotta Gall
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 2021
The new U.S. alliance with Australia and Britain against China has put Europe closer to a question it has tried to avoid: Which side are you on?
By Steven Erlanger
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 2021
Wall Street has found something scarier than tapering, taxes, and China Evergrande Group combined. It’s called the 50-day moving average. The market has plenty of excuses to break the 50-day, if it’s so inclined.
By Ben Levisohn
Barron`s, Sep. 18, 2021
Biden Likely to Renominate Powell as Fed Chief, Say Online Betting Markets
By Jay H. Bryson, Sarah House, Michael Pugliese, Hop Mathews
Barron`s, Sep. 18, 2021
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