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Global Economy

“In The Arena”. Podcast: One-On-One with Daniel Lacalle

"In The Arena". Podcast: One-On-One with Daniel LacalleThis new episode of In the Arena features a timely and insightful conversation with author, economist and fund manager Daniel Lacalle.

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A Currency War Will Only Weaken Growth And Strengthen Gold

A few months ago many of us read about the conspiracy theory of “the nuclear option”, according to which China could generate a huge debt crisis in the United States and destroy the US economy if it sold its treasury holdings.

I already commented on it in this website (read).
China is an can become a greater economic leader, but the Chinese yuan cannot be a global reserve currency while maintaining capital controls and exchange rate fixing.

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A Day Of Reckoning For The Global Economy. Interview at Hedgeye

European and Asian economic data is deteriorating, says economist and author Daniel Lacalle.

“I’d call right now the day of reckoning,” Lacalle says, in this video excerpt of our soon-to-be released podcast In The Arena. “The entire message from mainstream consensus is ‘Yes there was a global slowdown,’ but using the trade war as an excuse.”

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