Fed needs to drop interest rate to zero right away in one shot. My reasons : 1. Businessmen know that better the party lower the interest rate. In old days the word prime rate came into picture ( when banks charged interest rate in range of 6 to 8 ...

I am surprised not to see a muslim name as contender. It is only a question of time.

China is holding US treasuries because it has highest yield, highest safety and highest liquidity. If they dump US Treasuries what would they buy? Turkish bonds, Greek bonds, Saudi bonds or Pakistani rupee bond or Yen bonds? No way.

The whole world knows about massive US deficits, which are increasing every day. And still US treasury keep selling treasury bonds and there are buyers. Most amazing phenomenon is that USD is crushing every other major currency in sight. Look at ...

China bought it in open market. They could have bought EUR or JPY bonds. Why did not they ? They bought US treasury bonds instead because they pay higher in interest, more stable and safe.

American direct investment in China grew by 24.3 per cent in the January to April period compared with the same period last year, a sharp deceleration from the 71.3 per cent growth in the first quarter of 2019, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce ...

I have been watching "goods trade balance" figures every month at least for last 30 years. It used be like -45B/month. Has been increasing every year. Right now it is -71B/month. 71 multiplied by 12 is like 800 billion. Multiply that by 30 and you ...

All these theories are academic. The real reason is that Trump and his advisers fear that China's progress has to be slowed down because their intentions are not just economic progress and good life but to rule over the world. Their are making huge ...

Sri Lanka is a sovereign nation. Has nothing to do with India. It is Sri Lanka that blocked the media.

China is gearing toward becoming world's top military power and when they become one, they can be counted on becoming a imperialist power grabbing countries after country.

Trump is doing simply what needed to be done 30 years ago. Corporate greed who do not care whether Americans have job or not, is responsible for China to rise to a point where they can tell US that it is run by hoodlums. Biggest blame is to be ...

Trump follows up on what he says. 20% tariff on imported cars is just a question of time.

If US drops missiles in Syria, one thing is sure Putin will destroy the naval ships where missiles came from. And US will not be able to respond. Just threaten. I hope only adult left in trump administration, General Mattis will not let that happen.

Oil price has to go up until Aramco IPO goes thru and greedy money managers will buy for wealthy clients to make big commissions. Then the oil prices will go down for sure and very fast, when other OPEC nations will come to realize that Saudi's has ...

I do not think it is about window dressing. USD has weakened by some 15 % since beginning of 2017. And yet trade deficit has gotten worsened. I have been looking at US trade (goods) deficit figures for at least last 20 years every month and it ...

Here is my hypothesis. What you see with USD rout and stock market drop, is the result of Chinese official decision to become super power #1 now. Chinese have been preparing and planning this event for a long time. Chinese government is cashing in ...

Banks factor in these fines as cost of business. If they make 100 million and the fine is 10 million, they are still ahead. Real way to discourage these robbing activities is to make jail time mandatory punishment for the heads of trading at these ...

Trump may not know much but at least he knows that a weak dollar will increase chances of his reelection.

It is not going to be 3% in one shot no matter who comes into power.

Oil is going to be obsolete and Saudi's know that. That is why they are in hurry to sell shares to greedy investors and particularly the managers of the funds who control trillion dollars of their investors. These managers are more interested in ...