Bill Bonner: The Fed Can’t Stop What’s Coming
"Donald Trump is the last person who wants to see interest rates go up. Not only does his personal business empire depend on low rates… so does his political empire."
China’s Central Bank Spars With Its Ministry of Finance
"In China the fingerpointing over who is responsible for China's economic mess has begun."
Latest Sign of China’s Slowdown: A Technology Cash Crunch
"In private conversations, investors, entrepreneurs and economists admit that with the high debt level and a trade war with the United States, the room for government maneuvering is shrinking. The degrees of pessimism vary, but many of them are bracing for a tough ride ahead. They told me to change all my savings into gold, a risk-management measure for extreme times. They worry that the trade war will hurt the tech and the venture capital industries because they operate globally."
Former Fed officials lament taxpayers’ inability to see necessity of bank bailouts
"The three asserted that they had no choice but to use taxpayer money to stabilize the financial institutions. Paulson said, 'I was totally ineffective at having the American people understand that what we were doing was for them and not for Wall Street.'"
Bill Bonner: Trump’s Trade Deals Are a Futile Conceit
"At the end of the Korean War, both North and South Korea were poverty-ridden hellholes. But they took different routes. And got very different results."
Google AI uses electronic health records to predict your death with 95% accuracy
"Google applied artificial intelligence to a vast amount of data from more than 216,000 adult patients hospitalized for at least 24 hours each in two medical centers."
Trump’s Nuke Plan Raising Alarms Among Military Brass
"They say the strategy led by DoD policy wonks could lead to dangerous nuclear escalation."
Yellen Says Prices `High’ for Stocks, Commercial Real Estate
"Outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said U.S. stocks and commercial real estate prices are elevated but stopped short of saying those markets are in a bubble. 'What we look at is, if stock prices or asset prices more generally were to fall, what would that mean for the economy as a whole?' Yellen said. 'And I think our overall judgment is that, if there were to be a decline in asset valuations, it would not damage unduly the core of our financial system.'"
China promises bank rescue in next crisis
"China’s financial regulator has vowed to rescue the Chinese banking system immediately to avert a banking crisis when the bubble bursts, issuing a blanket guarantee that no major institution will be allowed to fail. Beijing says it has studied the errors that led to the Lehman crisis in the 2008 and will not allow a chain reaction to occur, even if this means paying a price in terms of lost economic growth and dynamism."
All I Want For Christmas Is the End to Unnecessary War
"The lives of young Americans are too high a price to pay for wars driven by threat inflation, ego, or foolhardy social experiments."
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