Saturday The history of economics and war tells us that the world is in a bad place. Empires are in collision. It is 1914 – with nukes. The West’s softest and silliest ever generation, is about to get a real life lesson in Reality – the Big R. It will be an unrecognisable concept to most. Despite the giddy euphoria of the stock market, we have … [Read more...]
Mother and Father of All Evil
Monday “… I say I will emerge with victory in the fight against this curse of interest rates. Because my belief is: interest rates are the mother and father of all evil.” Recep Tayyip Erdogan – Turkish president (who is in control of the Turkish central bank) Thus we have the one Gold oz to Turkish lira graph It is not too hard to predict that Erdogan will not … [Read more...]
Rohingya Trouble is Worsening
Tuesday Malaysia and Indonesia are outraged at the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya in Burma and are threatening to send in military help – whether officially or not is unclear at this point. They cannot go overland via Thailand, because there is no way that the Thai’s will allow it; they have their own Muslim problems. They cannot fly in without a gunfight. The only … [Read more...]