Commodities: Why They Are a Challenge for Investors
Uncertainty is pushing investors to consider commodities but playing them is not as easy as you think!
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Financial Institution Leaders Issue More Warnings of Equity Market Froth, Dodgy Debt Bombs
Financial firm heads are making admissions against interest. Further discussion of apparent and potential risks.
Read more...Time Bomb: How Uninsured Stablecoins and Crypto Derivatives Threaten Financial and Economic Stability
Why stablecoins are another finanical train wreck in the making.
Read more...The Warning Signs Are Clear: We’re Heading Toward a Digital Crisis
Quelle surprise! No one would dare bulld a car to the standards used for digital systems and products, and a crash seems baked in.
Read more...Banks Can’t Survive Climate Change
Richard Murphy argues a massive banking collapse is coming — and the cause isn’t speculation this time. It’s climate change.
Read more...“The Wider Benefits of Choosing Life Off the Grid”
An argument that going off the grid is about a lot more than solar power and gardens.
Read more...Trump’s Impact on the Financial Sector and Global Dollar System
A wide-ranging review of how unccordinated Trump policies undermine the dollar and the international banking system, and even each other.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Weakening Bank Regulations Will Make the Next Financial Crisis Worse
Pressured by banks, US and European officials are loosening regulations to prevent another 2008 which will have predictable consequences
Read more...When One of the World’s Most Powerful Nations Is Run By Spoiled Children
The US cannot achieve its goals in the world by traditional economic or military means, so it increasingly prefers chaos and destruction. How do the other powers stop it?
Read more...Economists Wake Up to West’s Trade and Technology Dependence on China
Useful data on and discussion of China’s dominance of inputs and technologies essential to the West.
Read more...Financial Times and Stanford Business School Describe How Private Equity Investors Like CalPERS Act Like the Dumb Money They Are
More on how private equity investors like CalPERS willingly go along with their victimization.
Read more...‘Farming in the Dark’: Brooke Rollins’ Leadership, DOGE’s Grip and the Cost to American Agriculture
In her first six months, Donald Trump’s second agriculture secretary has altered the course of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She says prosperity is ‘just around the corner.’ But staffing cuts and restricted research could have long-lasting impacts.
Read more...Insurers Dump Catastrophe Risk of Climate Change and Earthquake to Chump Bond Investors. What Could Go Wrong?
Garden variety investors, including retail, are signing up to insure climate change and other disaster risk via catastrophe bonds.
Read more...Broligarchs Demand Silicon Valley Bank 2.0: What Could Go Wrong?
It seems no idea is too stupid not to get a following. This one is to recreate Silicon Valley Bank, a standout failure.
Read more...CalPERS Retiree Group Launches GoFundMe for Investigation on Private Equity Fees
CalPERS retirees are raising funds to have a big go at private equity fee secrecy. Please chip in if you are a California taxpayer!
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