If inequality keeps billionare Ray Dalio up at night, he could shrink his holdings through bold capital allocations aggressively focused on changing how we live, work, fly, and play.
A important factor in wealth redistribution has been the increased participation of both financial and non-financial firms in financial markets.
The most characteristic feature of post-WWII business cycles is that they have originated in deliberately inflationary policies directed by central banks.
Using Japan as a model, governments are steering us toward a worldwide zombie economy — but we're likely to end up with something that looks more like Argentina than Japan.
Pundits are hoping that instead of a crisis, we just get a "global economic slowdown." Given the damage done by central banks, a sustained slowdown would be a best-case scenario.
Pumping yet more credit into the Eurozone is as effective as giving adrenalin to a dead horse.
The European central bank has no ammunition left with which to address any serious economic downturn.
Since 2008, China has amassed a mountain of debt, and continues to operate countless "zombie" companies and money-losing factories.
The Fed is prepared to squeeze out what little is left of the free market forces in the debt market. The Fed wants full control so it can do "whatever it takes" to keep interest rates from rising above its very-low targets.
Germany’s role as the locomotive and economic leader of the entire bloc has been crucial for the last decade.
