Trump: on a record-breaking streak
April 5, 2025The tectonics of global investment are undergoing spectacular upheavals, to the severe detriment of the United States, which is experiencing a full-scale exodus. Foreign investors and speculators are liquidating U.S. assets at the most dramatic level of the CENTURY, accompanied by massive capital outflows being repatriated outside the U.S. Breaking news: According to Bessent, U.S.…
The Age of Barbarians
March 15, 2024How can we forget the cult British series from the 60s, The Prisoner, where a terrifying bubble relentlessly pursued the hero played by the charismatic Patrick McGoohan? Our world finds itself in a similar situation because we are now all hostages to bubbles. From the bubble that isolates the rulers, to the bubble of the…
We, the barbarians
March 2, 2020Economic 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…
1929, 2008, and 2019?
October 9, 2018Why get worried about exaggerations – aberrations even – over current stock market prices when the American index of reference, the S&P 500, is only showing drops in the way of 1%? While US public debt is reaching astronomical heights of nearly 22 trillion dollars and while companies listed on this S&P 500 index have…