As a person living in today’s world we have to keep expanding our lexicon of terms since there appears to be a new one created every single day. Some of the terms are manufactured out of “Political ...

Track the 2025 debasement trade and why it may hit bonds, currencies, and stocks in H2 2026—get insights on systemic shock ...

There is no doubt that inflation is coursing its way through the economy. Yet the amount of interest you can earn on things like CDs and money market funds is curiously going nowhere. That’s called ...

There are several definitions of financial repression ― and the repressors and the repressed tend to see things differently. But what financial repression usually involves is keeping interest rates ...

Wonder Land: Democrats have wrecked the cities and the border. Why would climate policy be any different? Images: Zuma Press/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly It’s a $4.5 trillion week in Washington.

LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - High debt levels require permanently low interest rates. This is the political and economic logic behind the policy of keeping interest rates well below the rate of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Fears that governments will raid the savings of citizens to reduce debt burdens are driving investors to take greater risks with their money to outpace erosion of their wealth, ...

Financial repression is what happens when the government needs to make its $37 trillion debt disappear without actually paying it back. I've been telling MarketWatch readers to buy gold, silver and ...

The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is set to return to the Norwegian capital June 3-5 for its 16th installment since 2009. The conference series, hosted by the New York-based non-profit Human Rights ...

The economic costs of severe financial stress are so high and so long lasting that developed-world policymakers will still be pursuing financial repression as a way to contain the consequences for ...

In April 2023, Hong Kong Watch research found that Hong Kongers in exile were being denied up to 2.2 billion pounds ($2.8 billion) worth of their Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) savings. The MPF is a ...