Baoshang Bank Could Be China’s Indybank

June 17, 2019 For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Chinese central bank and the Banking Regulatory Commission announced it would take control of one of its banks. The troubled Mongolia-based Baoshang Bank had assets of 576 billion yuan ($84 billion), and its...

Fed Running Out of Time and Conventional Weapons

June 10, 2019 The buy and hold mantra from Wall Street Carnival Barkers should have died decades ago. After all, just buying stocks has gotten you absolutely crushed in China for more than a decade. And in Japan, you have been buried under an avalanche of losses for...

A Brief History of Financial Entropy

May 17, 2019 The global economy began an experiment with fiscal and monetary alchemy when it exited the gold standard almost 50 years ago. In 1971 the USD completely separated from the last vestiges of its tether to gold. In effect, it released the worldwide monetary...