Monthly Archives: September 2015

Times are tough for commodity exporters everywhere and Brazil is leading the pack. Having officially admitted it is in recession last month (forecast to be the nation’s worst since the 1930’s), today Standard and Poor’s cut the country’s credit rating … Continue reading →

The US Department of Justice has finally been embarrassed enough to initiate guidelines for investigating individual actors that have been freely breaking laws behind the veil of corporations. It’s a sad statement that this is a new policy,  but it’s … Continue reading →

Aging demographics in the world’s wealthiest countries have long been leading to lower demand and slower growth. To delay that inevitability, the world’s financiers and central bankers devised strategies to pump ‘all you can eat credit’ into the world. That … Continue reading →