Global Economic Outlook: So Long, And Thanks For The Rates Hike
The chorus of market crash predictions grows ever louder. The Fed pauses its funds rate hike and Bitcoin emulates gold’s rally just as gold hits an interim high. Oil price lows may force Saudi Arabia to devalue the Saudi Riyal. Amidst growing fears of a return to recession, world markets are reflecting the shift in sentiment, and interesting price chart pictures appear. GEO has maintained, since mid-2015, that the shift to recession and deflation was already underway. Now we see the telltale signs in the charts. The free money that had levitated US stock markets since 2009 has been....
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