2015
Omni-dimensional crisis: protecting oneself in stormy weather
The
enormous dangers weighing on the banking and financial systems, especially in
the West, but also on social and geopolitical peace, leads our team to warn our
readers to be especially on their guard. The issue is protecting one’s assets
creatively, with diversification of solutions always the principal instruction.
For example reduce the share of one’s assets invested in financial products;
reduce the share of one’s assets deposited with conventional Western banks; the
purchase of gold especially, but also jewellery, precious metals…, remains our
first recommendation, up to 20% to 30% of one’s portfolio; for the remaining
assets at the banks, think about the safest foreign banks as well, especially
Chinese...
il prices
rebounded more than $1 toward $56 a barrel on Thursday, after a two-day
decline, as a weakened dollar and industry spending cuts offset worries of a
supply glut. Analysts at Sucden Financial pointed to a softer dollar boosting
buying on Thursday in a note to clients. A weaker U.S. unit makes dollar-priced
commodities such as oil cheaper for holders of other currencies...
The
proposal for “debt-swapping” floated by Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s finance
minister, is both ingenious and constructive. But whatever its merits — and as
always in financial transactions, the devil will be in the details — by putting
it forward in this way Greece is making what can be termed The British
Mistake...
Tesla sold
only 120 cars in China in January, a Tesla source told Reuters. CEO Elon Musk
is now prepared to fire overseas executives as the number was well below
company targets, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Reuters,
citing sources who have seen the email, says that Musk “threatened to fire or
demote country managers if they are ‘not on a clear path to positive long-term
cash flow.'”
jack Ma
told the Chinese government that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. isn’t too big to
fail, as Asia’s richest man sought to assure regulators he was addressing
corruption on the company’s e-commerce sites...
China today
said it respects the aspirations of India and Brazil to play bigger roles at
the UN Security Council, while keeping mum on Japan's candidature. About the
Indian and Brazilian applications to become permanent members, China respects
the willingness of the two countries to play a bigger role in the UN body...
It is not
Vegas, but the worry must be that what happens in Minsk, stays in Minsk.The
urgency of making sure a ceasefire happens, and holds will only serve to
intensify the debate in the US about how to deal with Vladimir Putin.
European
Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is challenging Angela Merkel in her de
facto role as the most powerful leader in Europe. The election of Greece's
Alexis Tsipras may help him in his fight against rigid German austerity
policies.
Central
banks are now open all hours. Just as they worked weekends through the
financial crisis, policy makers are again signaling they can strike at any time
for the good of their economies.
Les
investissements chinois dans l’Union européenne, qui avaient reculé en 2013,
ont plus que doublé en 2014 pour atteindre un nouveau record de 18 milliards de
dollars (15,9 milliards d’euros), montre une étude publiée mercredi...
A ceasefire
in eastern Ukraine intended to pave the way for a comprehensive political
settlement of the country’s crisis has been agreed in Minsk following a fraught
16 hours of overnight negotiations between the leaders of Russia, Ukraine,
Germany, and France.
ember of
the Dutch Socialist Party Tiny Kox hopes that the reconciliation deal on
Ukraine worked out in Minsk on Thursday will help to normalize relations in
Europe and end the anti-Russia sanctions...
'
Grexit'
would be no easy ride for austerity-weary Greeks
"Grexit"
would be sudden, sharp and probably conducted in the dark of night; if Greece
were to quit the euro, it would also mark the beginning of a long, hard road -
for some harder still than the one already traveled.
The Swiss
government has outlined legislation aimed at putting in place curbs on EU
migration backed in a referendum last February. As part of a bill published on
Wednesday (11 February), quotas will apply to foreign workers based in the
Alpine country for more than four months from February 2017, while recruitment
priority will be given to Swiss residents...
In a
personal conversation with a European diplomat who has been closely associated
with NATO, I was told that what NATO looks for in partnering with Asian
countries is legitimacy and capability. These overlap with US expectations in
working with its NATO and other allies in counterinsurgency operations...
This
special Press Review reviews articles from the French and Engligh-speaking
international online media relating to the unfolding global crisis.
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