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Daily Archives: April 11, 2018
IMF: Synchronous asset bubbles risk synchronous global bust
The International Monetary Fund has stepped up its warning on the economic and social risk of the synchronized housing bubbles that have billowed around the world on QE-driven mania, particularly since 2013. You can read their April report here: Global … Continue reading
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Housing speculation undermining social stability
Excellent article on why the social contract and stability requires us to curb housing speculation and tax foreign ‘investment’ flows. Read Speculation tax is essential for housing affordability: A problem arises, however, when people can buy housing with income or … Continue reading
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Oil and loonie looking vulnerable
Oil and the Canadian dollar are hyped up once more on record speculative long bets. Downside now looms large on the slightest de-escalation in the Middle East amid slowing world demand and a secular increase in global inventories. Ed Morse, … Continue reading
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