Image of the Day – Bonifacio Corsica
MC Escher, Bonifacio Corsica, 1928
Chart of the Day: Chinese Fixed Capital Investment is Nearly 90% of GDP
In a recent post, we highlighted a chart from Crescat Capital’s second quarter letter to investors showing China’s unsustainable corporate debt growth. Today, we bring you another jaw dropping chart […]
Jim Rickards – IRS Will Freeze Bitcoin Exchanges
KITCO News recently spoke with James Rickards, esteemed financial market analyst and best selling author of books including Currency Wars and The Death of Money. In the interview, Mr. Rickards expresses […]
Sovereign Debt Crisis – Interest Expenses Are Already Consuming Large Portions of Tax Revenue
Japan, for example, is paying nearly 24% of its tax revenues to service its debt, despite only paying an effective interest rate of 1%!
Chart of the Day: Putting the Chinese Corporate Debt Bubble in Perspective
Another day, another jaw dropping statistic about China’s increasingly untenable economic situation. Today’s comes from Crescat Capital’s second quarter letter to investors, which takes an eye-opening walk through China’s debt […]
Chinese Government ‘Self Learning’ Comment Bots Shut Down After Slamming Communist Party
Via our Top News Stories Column – From the Taipei Times: Chinese Government ‘Self Learning’ Online Comment Bots Shut Down Down After Slamming Communist Party Human user: “Long live the Communist Party!” […]
Map of the Day – Croplands of the World
The following map shows the percentage of land used for the farming of crops (excludes pasture land) around the world. For more on agriculture, back in January 2017, we wrote […]
George Friedman on the Border Standoff between China and India
George Friedman, respected geopolitical forecaster, author, and founder of Stratfor and Geopolitical Futures, recently discussed the growing military tensions between China and India along their respective border (and the border […]
Which Countries Have the Most Public Sector Workers?
The following chart from Statista highlights the intersection of two themes covered frequently here at The Sounding Line: the emerging public sector pension and the sovereign debt crises. Public sector […]
Image of the Day – Calabria
M. C. Escher, Tropea, Calabria, 1931 National Gallery of Canada