by Alex Black | Feb 14, 2019 | Bulletin
Jerome Powell’s a dead man walking. He has been ever since he took the job as head of the Federal Reserve. Whenever it looks like markets are in trouble, the President gives him a verbal slap or publicly shames him. “Stop raising rates, you clown! You’re killing my...
by Alex Black | Feb 7, 2019 | Bulletin
Markets are great at ignoring reality. Just take what’s going on at the moment… It doesn’t matter that global economic growth is stalling… Or that China – “the world’s most important economy” – is showing its worst economic performance in three decades… Or...
by Alex Black | Feb 1, 2019 | Bulletin
Growing up, Samuel wasn’t your average school kid. He probably thought about a lot of the same things his friends did… Shared some of the same anxieties… and found similar things fun. But Samuel had other ideas that set him apart from most boys his...
by Alex Black | Jan 25, 2019 | Bulletin
It’s day 34 of Donald Trump’s government shutdown. And there are very few signs of a breakthrough in the stalemate any time soon. But given this week’s main news, the farce playing out in Congress is just a sideshow. The world has a far bigger problem to deal with,...
by Alex Black | Jan 18, 2019 | Bulletin
Let’s say you’re in a job you’ve been doing for 10 years. But your employer tells you that for the next two weeks you must stay away from work. And while you’re away, you won’t be paid. How would you feel about this? Pretty fed up, right? But it gets worse. All work,...
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