Pinchas Landau writes about Israeli and Global economics, finance and politics
October 23, 2015
Anti-immigrant sentiment is surging in both Europe and the US — despite Europe’s objective need for immigrants and America’s ‘melting-pot’ ideology and history. Why has rationality gone out the window — and why does everyone ignore Israel, the country of immigrants par excellence?
October 16, 2015
Is the loss of American hegemony in world affairs a cause or result of the decline of the dollar? And will the dollar soon lose its role as the world’s reserve currency — and plunge in value? Or are there grounds to expect the dollar’s value to actually rise sharply?
October 9, 2015
Money is pouring out of emerging economies, on a scale not seen since Chinese industrialization took off a generation ago. The world’s financial elite, gathering in Lima for the annual IMF/ World Bank meetings, is very worried — and with good cause.
October 2, 2015
The peak of the boom in the bond market is long past. Junk bonds, in particular, are in trouble, with yields rising sharply and the spread between them and Treasuries widening. The party’s over and it’s time to leave.
September 18, 2015
Europeans, themselves descended from invaders, view the surge of refugees as an invasion, not a potentially beneficial immigration. Their reaction confirms that the EU was and remains a Christian club
September 11, 2015
Virtual apples-in-honey instead of real shofar sirens. The sheeple have been conditioned to swap sloshy greetings, their eyes and ears firmly shut to any disturbing sights, sounds or signals