The world has a debt problem. Specifically, debt as a percentage of GDP has climbed to very high levels throughout the world. Developed markets on average have much higher debt than emerging markets, but emerging markets often owe debt in currencies they don't control (like dollars), so it's a very large problem all around the globe, albeit with … [Read more...]

Quantitative easing (QE) occurs when central banks, such as the U.S. Federal Reserve, create new money to buy government bonds or other securities. Some people fear that it will cause high inflation or even hyper-inflation and that it is essentially money-printing, while others suggest that it has no impact on inflation because the money that is … [Read more...]

Many comparisons are being made between the current predicament that the United States and the rest of the world finds itself in, and the Great Depression of the 1930’s. This current time will certainly be a period that historians in the future will have a lot to write about, culturally, geopolitically, and economically. The fastest fall from … [Read more...]

There is currently a short squeeze affecting most of the global economy, slowing its growth. This has been the case well before the impacts from the trade war and the coronavirus. A short squeeze occurs when something that is heavily shorted goes on to rise sharply in price for one reason or another. That rise in price forces many short-sellers … [Read more...]