Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Below are this week’s articles at Macro Viewpoints: Next Chairman of the US Fed – A Bond Trader Instead of an Economist? >>>> Bust of EM Bubble – Now Brazil after Turkey, India & Africa >>>> Interesting Videoclips of the Week (June 15 – June 21, 2013) >>>> Send your feedback to editor@macroviewpoints.com Or @MacroViewpoints…
Interest rates and monetary policy are the preserve of the U.S. Federal Reserve (“Fed”). They are determined by the Federal Open Markets Committee (“FOMC”) and communicated to the American people via a post-meeting statement by the Fed. The current chairman of the Fed is Dr. Ben Bernanke, a widely admired scholar. Since he took over…
Last week we put forth our thesis that riots in Turkey and protests in India were not really about the professed causes but simply the results of the bursting of the EM bubble. This week Brazil was hit with massive protests. The scale of the protests was staggering as shown in the absolutely splendid photo…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
TV screens and print media were full of coverage about the protests in Turkey this week. The pictures of protestors throwing stones & sometimes Molotov cocktails at the riot police and the riot police responding with tear gas and water cannons were riveting. No one had expected this from a modernizing economic success story like…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Below are this week’s articles at Macro Viewpoints: U.S. Government Coming Apart or Under Attack? >>>> Arrogance or Racism of Good Intentions? >>>> Morality & Equality – Should India Ban Single “White” Women Tourists or Should These Women Not Travel to India? >>>> Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 25 – May 31, 2013) >>>>…
Just a few months ago, the Obama Administration was on the top of the world with a brilliant thumping electoral college victory. Now just a few months later, the Administration is under attack from all sides. In today’s mondo-bizarro* world, the twains have met and joined hands. Huffington Post with its “Bush 4th term” epithet…
On June 4, CNBC unveiled a special episode of its Fast Money show, an episode to showcase Women at the Top in Finance. The need to create greater opportunities for women in the financial sector or Wall Street has been a hot topic for at least the past 20 years. So a Fast Money show…