Salient to Investors: Saumil Parikh at Pimco said: Global growth will increase to 2.25 percent to 2.75 percent through September of 2014 as US and European policy won’t hamper growth as much as in the past, private sector confidence strengthens as global wealth increases, and central banks use monetary policy
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Leaked UN documents show ice in Antarctica and Greenland is disappearing faster and may drive sea levels higher than predicted this century. Greenland’s ice added 6 times more to sea levels in the decade through 2011 than in the previous 10 years, while Antarctica had a 5-fold increase. Walt
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria writes: The World Bank says that in 1981, nearly half of all world citizens were impoverished versus less than a fifth today. However 95 percent of the total global decline has to do with China, whose poor declined by nearly 680 million people in the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Denmark’s Economy Minister Margrethe Vestager said world reaction to talk of Fed tapering clearly shows how addicted people have become to record-low rates and a reminder that low borrowing costs are still underpinning demand across much of the globe. The IMF said Denmark’s record debt levels make them more vulnerable
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The distinctive feature of the American system is how undemocratic it is. Three co-equal branches of government and the one with the final say on many issues is composed of 9 unelected men and women. The Senate, the most unrepresentative upper house in the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: Problems always come no matter what governments say and we have always had slowdowns in America after every 6 or 7 years even in good times. The next time around, things are going to be much worse, especially in countries where the debt is
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: The next slowdown will be a lot worse. In America, the debt quadrupled and a lot of the debt is garbage. We are floating on an artificial sea of liquidity. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/08/in-america-debt-quadrupled-and-lot-of.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Asia’s role as the world’s growth engine is waning as economies across the region weaken and investors pull out billions of dollars in favor of nascent recoveries in the US and Europe. Economists forecast Malaysia will post its second straight quarter of sub-5 percent growth this week.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: Governments and central banks have reacted to the crisis in an artificial manner, and are only making the crisis worse – they never let the problem cure itself. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/08/they-never-let-problem-cure-itself.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: Every major central bank printing money and the world is floating on a very large artificial lake. You cannot have an efficient and strong economy with artificial money printing. The next economic slowdown will be worse than 2008-2009. Read the full article at http://jimrogers-blog.blogspot.com/2013/08/every-major-central-bank-is-printing.html
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