Broad Oak Magazine

A couple of days ago I said that US debt default would splat the US far worse than its trading partners; of course, I missed the point. The ...

The dethroning of the US dollar as the international trading currency is under way. New bonds issued by the International Monetary Fund in t...

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Brad Setser returns to a favourite theme, China's investment in the US. If I can summarise: 1. China buys American bonds directly, but ...

Mish notes that because it's a global crash, everyone is printing money and the relative value of the dollar has not plummeted as many ...

Investment experts Jim Rogers and Marc Faber agree with Jim Puplava that (a) the US will try to reflate out of its troubles, and (b) cutting...

Well, I've got some sort of response from Iain Dale's commentators , starting with an ad hominem accusation of being emotionally nee...

Peter Schiff's latest commentary ( today in Forex Street ) pours scorn on the Treasury Secretary's professed commitment to a strong ...

An interesting report from China Daily yesterday . The American Chamber of Commerce there is asking for less pressure to revalue the renminb...

Peter Schiff predicts China must de-link from the dollar in today's Market Oracle . Because their economy is robust (based on actually m...

China has its problems. Monsters and Critics , quoting UPI, says that 3.5 million jobs could go if the yuan appreciates much more against th...

A thoughtful article by Thomas Brewton yesterday here explains that US inflation is also causing inflation in China. While America sheds job...

We're waiting to hear much from the Western side on the talks, but see here for a Chinese-angled general background to the series. Howe...

This exchange of letters in the Market Oracle has very significant implications. It's a discussion of the huge international "carr...

China is taking in $20 billion a month of foreign capital, according to this 9 March article from the International Herald Tribune. It has...

An article in WTOP news says that some areas of Chinese industry are surprisingly vulnerable to the currency exchange rate: A rise of 10 pe...

As I said on 16th May. Though it didn't take a genius to foresee: the Chinese are careful to flag up their intentions so as not to scare...

Please read this news article, about US-Chinese economic relations. It's a rehash of an essay by China's Vice Premier Wu Yi in yest...

... and from the other side, a thoughtful opinion by Zhang Ming in today's Chinese People's Daily online edition . It notes that cha...

China is giving more signals of its plans to let the Yuan/Renminbi rise. Premier Wen referred to "improving the Renminbi exchange rate...