PUBLIC REVIEW of our monthly bulletin GEAB (November, 2017). Subscribe here ! End 2017/early 2018, all major Western Central Banks will be putting a final stop to the 2008 crisis-related unconventional monetary policies, namely the famous quantitative easing policies (QEs) which enabled to provide liquidity to those banks which saw their mutual confidence for borrowing collapse ...
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US Elections – Europe – World: What will the domino effect look like? (Excerpt GEAB November 2016)
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election creates the conditions for change, but it is not change yet, contrary to what the media and populists believe. Far from being a “revolution”, the Trump’s advent at the head of the Western system corresponds to a radicalisation of the ex-ante situation. ...
Read More »Trump’s America: the lifting of the US default taboo
PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE of our monthly bulletin GEAB March, 2017. Subscribe here ! Without Kissinger to negotiate the petrodollar and put the US currency back to the centre of the global game after the shock of Nixon’s announcement in 1971 to halt the convertibility of the dollar to gold, the greenback would never have been ...
Read More »End of the US government control of ICANN: Towards the privatisation of internet control agencies (Excerpt GEAB October 2016)
Both in the United States and around the world, this news has been making some noise: since October the 1st, the internet is finally “free from US tutelage.” Is it, indeed? It is true that a decisive step has just been reached, since the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ...
Read More »The military or Erdogan, again (Excerpt GEAB October 2015)
This article was published by our team in October 2015, in a very specific context: the Russian crisis was not solved yet, Syrian trap, Erdogan having political difficulties etc. We can verify today the precision of this anticipation, and more precisely of the possibility of a “coup d’etat”. The other ...
Read More »US Elections / Europe / World – Trump’s victory and the domino effect: Will the Euro survive beyond 2017?
PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE of our monthly bulletin GEAB November, 2016. Subscribe here ! Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election creates the conditions for change, but it is not change yet, contrary to what the media and populists believe. Far from being a “revolution”, the Trump’s advent at the head of the Western system ...
Read More »US Isolation: When global finance turns away from the dollar system, it means the cliff is near
PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE of our monthly bulletin GEAB October, 2016. Subscribe here ! The United States has been voluntarily isolating itself from the rest of the world, and not just from a geopolitical point of view. This terrible isolation can only get worse, whatever the result of the presidential election: if Trump wins, it will ...
Read More »Exclusive// Deflation and real economy in the United States: the black hole (Article from GEAB february 2016)
The systemic crisis is spreading much faster in the real economy than in 2008-2009. This low dormancy is a sign that the economic protection dikes are severely lowered, the synergies are broken and the common strategies of global resilience have vanished. Within this statistical fog, not even fully lifted yet, ...
Read More »EU/UK/US – Union, Dislocation, Reinvention: The Great Systemic Transformation of the West (GEAB N°95)
For the fourth consecutive month, accompanied by all the usual precautions, our team continues to believe that the crisis’ peak is now behind us. It’s clear that two photos taken five minutes before and five minutes after this peak can be identical. On the other hand the film isn’t comparable; ...
Read More »USA – Political and military consequences of the US mid-term election, by GEAB
Political consequences: Towards an aggravation of US leadership weaknesses (leaders facing a loss of legitimacy, economic context of recession, diplomatic deadlock in Iraq/Iran/North Korea…) The recent choice by American voters, who have violently rejected the policy followed for six years, is nothing other than a loud cry for help [1] . ...
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