With rumours circling everywhere about who is actually on who’s side in this region, including the recent inclusion of China:   Lest we forget what this is all about.   Moscow, realizing that instead of undertaking an earnest effort to fight terror in Syria, the US had simply adopted a containment strategy for ISIS […]

So, for the 4th time this year the US Federal Reserve could not lift rates by even .25%, for fear of crashing the system, after 6 years of emergency stimulus.    It was ironically humorous to see the “business as usual”, “just keeping things steady”, “we’re in safe hands” reply from Financial Commentators.   This […]

We’re going to give the Gold Bears a shove today but before we do it’s hard to move on without addressing recent market gyrations. On Monday, US Fed board member, Stanley Fisher was interviewed on CNBC, post the weekends Jackson Hole Policymaker/Central Bank love in. With regard to the dreaded US interest rate hike due […]