Financial Markets
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What If a Great Crypto Crash Is Coming?
“Were the world to experience a new economic downturn, there is a great possibility that this lack of consumer use will show the current valuation of Bitcoin to have been a bubble. If this happens, a lot of retail investors will suffer.” ~ Benjamin Juhlin
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The Crime Dividend of Pandemic Policies
“The tradeoffs of pandemic policies were apparent early on, and now include mounting levels of fraud, theft, and violence. Although it is unlikely, hopefully that revelation will inform future policy choices.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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An Armor Conspired: the Global Shipping Freeze
“The idea that an economy could be shut down and turned back on without far reaching consequences is damnable, and could only come from the minds with no understanding of the extraordinary interdependence of the productive sector.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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The Irony of China’s Most Recent Bitcoin Ban
“With the Evergrande crisis looming in the background, the crypto universe being pilloried by Chinese authorities as a ‘growing threat to financial stability’ and ‘disrupt[ive] to economic order’ is more than simply ironic. It is irony at its most mordant.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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Remembering the Truly Forgotten, Twenty Years Later
“On the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, more will be said about military service dogs than the thousands of hardworking, productive people killed in downtown Manhattan that day. But money and finance are the font of modernity and the wellspring of American prosperity.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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The Year of Corporate Discontent
“If you thought things were crazy on the corporate scene over the last few years, you should check out what happened in 1970. It is the stuff of blockbuster books and movies.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Lessons from the Financial Instability Hypothesis
“The Covid-19 recession was not triggered by financial causes, but the ballooning government debt the U.S. is currently pursuing, recklessly and with a vengeance, can only substitute a new unsustainable expansion for a sustainable recovery.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan
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After Lockdown
“Risks remain and the prospects for the global economy after lockdown remain uncertain. Honest valuation remains difficult when markets are so hampered. The next decade is likely to favour the tactical investor.” ~ Colin Lloyd
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Hurricane Ida Threatens Global Plastic Markets
“Of the many industries which have been strained to the limit of their capacity over the last eighteen months, few have struggled as mightily as the resins and plastics sector.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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Stakeholders v. Stockholders
“Most investors don’t want the corporations they own to oppose X or support Y and those who do are free to reinvest dividends or the profits from stock sales in whatever lawful causes they wish.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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What If a Great Crypto Crash Is Coming?
“Were the world to experience a new economic downturn, there is a great possibility that this lack of consumer use will show the current valuation of Bitcoin to have been a bubble. If this happens, a lot of retail investors will suffer.” ~ Benjamin Juhlin
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The Crime Dividend of Pandemic Policies
“The tradeoffs of pandemic policies were apparent early on, and now include mounting levels of fraud, theft, and violence. Although it is unlikely, hopefully that revelation will inform future policy choices.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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An Armor Conspired: the Global Shipping Freeze
“The idea that an economy could be shut down and turned back on without far reaching consequences is damnable, and could only come from the minds with no understanding of the extraordinary interdependence of the productive sector.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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The Irony of China’s Most Recent Bitcoin Ban
“With the Evergrande crisis looming in the background, the crypto universe being pilloried by Chinese authorities as a ‘growing threat to financial stability’ and ‘disrupt[ive] to economic order’ is more than simply ironic. It is irony at its most mordant.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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Remembering the Truly Forgotten, Twenty Years Later
“On the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, more will be said about military service dogs than the thousands of hardworking, productive people killed in downtown Manhattan that day. But money and finance are the font of modernity and the wellspring of American prosperity.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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The Year of Corporate Discontent
“If you thought things were crazy on the corporate scene over the last few years, you should check out what happened in 1970. It is the stuff of blockbuster books and movies.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Lessons from the Financial Instability Hypothesis
“The Covid-19 recession was not triggered by financial causes, but the ballooning government debt the U.S. is currently pursuing, recklessly and with a vengeance, can only substitute a new unsustainable expansion for a sustainable recovery.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan
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After Lockdown
“Risks remain and the prospects for the global economy after lockdown remain uncertain. Honest valuation remains difficult when markets are so hampered. The next decade is likely to favour the tactical investor.” ~ Colin Lloyd
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Hurricane Ida Threatens Global Plastic Markets
“Of the many industries which have been strained to the limit of their capacity over the last eighteen months, few have struggled as mightily as the resins and plastics sector.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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Stakeholders v. Stockholders
“Most investors don’t want the corporations they own to oppose X or support Y and those who do are free to reinvest dividends or the profits from stock sales in whatever lawful causes they wish.” ~ Robert E. Wright