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A disturbing piece by Rob Kirby argues that the supposed reduction in the US trade deficit is partly accounted for by surreptitious exports ...

"China’s January surplus ( $39.1b ) is roughly the same size as the United States’ December deficit ( $39.9b ). It is reasonable to thi...

A very interesting piece by Brad Setser , where he shows that the EU's currency strength and growing imports from China have offset the ...

This is from a professional academic economist in America. Is he correct? Should we cheer up? Here's a letter that I sent recently to t...

Brad Setser sees hope in the correction: I increasingly suspect that one consequence of United States and Europe’s recent financial crisis ...

Here's some trade stats for UK/USA. Last year, we imported $6.6 billion more from the US than we exported to them. Last night, the excha...

" James Higham " joins his voice to those who detect a revival of the nationalist spirit. I don't think nationalism will be ...

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Steve Moyer gives a pretty clear (occasionally a bit aerated) potted history of the woeful train of events, over the ten years from the star...

See this and more in Chris Puplava's piece.

Following Dearieme 's comment on the previous post*, I'm going to try to visualise a chain of events over the next year - guesswork,...

Jeff Prestridge , in today's UK "Mail on Sunday" finance section, reports that the Personal Assets trust, controlling £188 mil...

A glimmer of hope: Citibank's new boss has opted to put liabilities back onto the balance sheet, much to Karl Denninger's satisfacti...

A short, cogent, scholarly essay by Peter Schiff in Financial Sense today, explaining why a falling dollar isn't a quick exit from Amer...

Gerard Jackson , in The Market Oracle today, rehearses the economic explanation for what's going on between America and China. He lays t...

....................... Who's flying high now? Let's see how we're doing. America's reserve assets at April 2007 were $66...

The Market Oracle yesterday and Gold Seek today both feature an article by Michael Kosares from his own site ( USA Gold ) on why he thinks ...

Continuing the argument about sovereign wealth funds, what might this portend for US Treasury securities? If foreign governments pull the ru...

The BBC Ten o' Clock News last night featured an article about China's purchase of a share in Barclays Bank. I have posted a video o...