« Draghigate » looming?

Published by Philippe Herlin | Jul 4, 2013

Weirdly enough, the media didn’t dwell on this amazing issue, and the TV people didn’t even talk about it in their news bulletins. Of course, it’s about one of Europe’s most powerful man, Mario Draghi, head of the European central bank.

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China Showing Some Cracks

Published by Philippe Herlin | Jun 27, 2013

What’s happening in China? The interbank market succumbed to two panic attacks, on June 7th and last week, immediately doused by monetary injections from the central bank, the People's Bank of China, but tensions remain.

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Europe : Zero-Growth

Published by Philippe Herlin | Jun 6, 2013

The european economy’s landscape looks sad... The Eurozone saw its GDP lose 0.2% in the first quarter, and the OECD revised to the downside its forecast for 2013 and sees a 0.6% recession ahead

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The New Great Wall of China : Gold

Published by Philippe Herlin | May 23, 2013

China knows it has created a credit bubble. But its effects are subsiding and, contrary to the Western governments who keep printing and printing, China has put in place an emergency strategy that is the exact opposite of the actual bubble-creating policies.

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Bubbles Everywhere?

Published by Philippe Herlin | May 16, 2013

Are we witnessing the emergence of bubbles everywhere, or isn’t the whole thing becoming a gigantic bubble? All financial assets are going up at the same time, whether it be stocks, sovereign debts, or corporate bonds!

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Cyprus : Arbitrary Decisions and Confusion

Published by Philippe Herlin | Mar 28, 2013

So Cyprus has been bailed out, for the time being, but we must ask the question : Isn’t the new plan worse than the first one? Given, of course, that both plans are nothing short of theft of private and company savings by incompetent political leaders, it’s like comparing pestilence with malaria.

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Cyprus : The Day After

Published by Philippe Herlin | Mar 21, 2013

Risks are increasing everywhere and the situation is becoming more and more confusing. We need to get back to the fundamentals : ideally we need to get out of paper currencies and into gold, get out of the banking system to avoid all confiscation, and get out of the Eurozone toward a country that...

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