Category: speculation

World : Life prognosis at stake

March 18, 2024 0

It’s always the same eternal questions that torment us when a bubble bursts and wreaks havoc on human, economic, and ecological fronts: How did we get here? What happened? Our world finds itself today in a critical situation with few historical precedents because we are now all hostages to multiple and repetitive bubbles. There’s the…

By Michel Santi

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China : the Weakened Dragon

February 18, 2024 6

The 2008 financial crisis marked a decisive turning point in the Chinese economy: adverse effects of which are still being felt today. Fearing contagion that would affect their banking system and the detrimental consequences of a decline in exports due to the slowdown in global demand, Chinese officials believed—following the path laid out by the…

By Michel Santi

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You have to see it to believe it: the price of eggs now exceeds that of Bitcoin!

January 11, 2023 0

By Michel Santi

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The financial crisis will not happen

January 5, 2023 0

This phenomenon occurs quite rarely, always in the event of liquidity crises, i.e. in times of great financial stress such as in 2008 or at the start of the Covid crisis. It translates into a gluttonous appetite for the US dollar sought after by the entire planet because it is sorely lacking. It is…

By Michel Santi

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Crypto crédibles et crédules?

November 14, 2022 0

N’est-il pas ironique que ces crypto monnaies, dont la raison d’être fut à l’origine de proposer un système alternatif aux banques et à l’argent, soient aujourd’hui prises la main dans le sac pour commettre les mêmes abus et malversations que le système qu’elles n’ont cessé de dénoncer? Je me souviens de la crise bancaire…

By Michel Santi

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Crypto: speculation for the poor

May 19, 2022 0

They are in no way currencies, even if the infatuation and the global greed of gain bestows upon them the flattering label of “cryptocurrencies”, in a doomed-from-the-start attempt to lend them credibility and attract punters. You need to have a tough heart and stomach to trade in such currencies with unprecedented volatility. They are…

By Michel Santi

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Hyman Minsky, the clairvoyant black sheep

November 25, 2021 Off

Deceased in 1996, Hyman Minsky was an economist who was barely known at all during his lifetime. Only certain enlightened minds – unorthodox ones, of course – were interested in his research which focused on the causes of financial crises. He owed his hour of glory to the subprime implosion in 2007 and it’s as…

By Michel Santi

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China infected by financial capitalism

September 20, 2021 0

The weight of the real estate industry has now become significant in the Chinese economy. Whereas it made up 5% of GDP in 1995, it is now one of the country’s main growth drivers, coming to more than 30% of economic activity. It is more or less at the same level as the real…

By Michel Santi

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Politics and finance: an incestuous relationship

May 27, 2021 0

There was once a time when what was good for General Motors was as a matter of course good for the USA. Nowadays, what’s good for Wall Street is good for the USA, a country that now lives under the influence of a financial oligarchy. The powerful myth of the US as a “nation…

By Michel Santi

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Bitcoin and the conspiracy theorists

March 17, 2021 0

Those frothing at the mouth over this “monetary revolution” take refuge in mistrusting their government, or in lacking confidence in their currency that they think won’t be worth much the next day due to the actions of the central banks. Or it’s for both reasons, that alas have got a bit confounded in the…

By Michel Santi

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You are all Charles Ponzi!

October 27, 2020 0

“Give Ponzi a million”, the Wall Street Journal declared in an article on 2nd August 1920, “and in a twelve month he will expand it for you to some $25,000,000; in two years to $657,000,000; in three years to $16,885,000,000. Surely the Allies could spare him a million, and within three years clean up…

By Michel Santi

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May this crisis be an opportunity!

June 15, 2020 0

For the common good, but also purely and simply for the preservation of capitalism, this crisis must be got to grips with because the cause and effect relationship between the accumulation of debt and inequalities is, for me, at the source of it all. The fact is that the drop in debt for the…

By Michel Santi

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We, the barbarians

March 2, 2020 0

Economic science is up for the chop, and the profession has been put on the defensive. Those who imposed austerity during the last great crisis called on what they thought made up the fundamentals of the economy. The rare ones who rejected this stringency pleaded, for their part, for action in this discipline that…

By Michel Santi

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Would the West accept being saved by Islamic finance?

January 19, 2019 0

The Nobel prize winner for economics, Eugene Fama, born in 1939 and one of the fathers of monetarism and the neoliberal ideology, is known for having pre-emptively asserted that “the idea of efficient markets is a simple assertion that states that the prices of securities and assets reflect all the information known”. It is in…

By Michel Santi