Global Debt

“The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower becomes the lender’s slave.”
- Solomon
This is the story about Debtor, a newborn American baby. Debtor has just been born into the gre...

Egon von Greyerz / July 13, 2018

Whilst the US government worries about the military threat of Russia, and the trade deficit with China, they show no concern for the real problems. To understand what is really happening, all we need...

Egon von Greyerz / June 28, 2018

Brexit, Quitaly and Grexit. Debt Defaults, Stock Shocks, Bond Bubbles, Properties Popping, Derivative Defaults and Banks Busting. Well that is just some of the events that twill take place in the ne...

Egon von Greyerz / June 15, 2018

There are 51 million American households that cannot make ends meet. This means that 43% of American households can’t afford a basic middle class life. Of these, 35 million are dubbed ALICE which sta...

Egon von Greyerz / May 24, 2018

It can’t happen here! What is happening in Venezuela and Argentina cannot occur in Western economies. That’s at least what markets believe with stocks and most bubble assets remaining in cloud cuckoo...

Egon von Greyerz / May 10, 2018

As the world is standing on the precipice of a total breakdown, both economically and geopolitically, an obvious question is: “Where is the money coming from” to save the world from perdition. The sa...

Egon von Greyerz / April 12, 2018

Between today and 2025, the world will be a very different place. We can learn nothing about the next 4 to 7 years from government, central bank or media propaganda as they neither understand what wil...

Egon von Greyerz / April 5, 2018

US economics is extremely predictable. It doesn’t matter who is President and what party he comes from. Because every president will spend more money than the US can afford. On average, US Federal deb...

Egon von Greyerz / February 16, 2018

Virtually no investor studies history and the few who do always think it is different today. The most important lesson is that people never learn. If they did, they wouldn’t be invested in a stock mar...

Egon von Greyerz / February 9, 2018

The world is now between Scylla and Charybdis or between two evils. Thus, there is no solution or positive outcome of the the present state of the world economy. Scylla is the rock or the six headed m...

Egon von Greyerz / January 19, 2018