Tag Archives: geopolitical shocks
Make Depressions Great Again
President Trump, with his Liberation Day tariff program, has started something that he cannot stop. The economic metamorphosis – a bifurcation between east and west – is already underway. Global trade is contracting. Supply chains are breaking down. Continue reading
Posted in Economy, MN Gordon
Tagged geopolitical shocks, great depression, smoot-hawley, trade tariffs, trade war
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Geopolitical Shocks and Financial Markets
The procession of news through the week – namely that chronicling the aftermath of the targeted drone strike and killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani – advanced with an agreeable flow. The reports at the start of the week were that Orange Man Bad had spun up a Middle East mob of whirling dervishes beyond recall. World War III was imminent. Continue reading
Posted in MN Gordon, Politics
Tagged geopolitical shocks, gold, iran, qasem soleimani, risk
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