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Nov 20, 2024 | 
americanaffairsjournal.org | Russell Napier
Something changed in America in the 1990s. The U.S. federal funds rate began a decline from above 5 percent to reach the effective zero bound by 2009. U.S. ten-year Treasury yields declined from above 6 percent to levels not even recorded during the Great Depression.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
wealthinsidermag.com | Russell Napier
According to Nikita Ovchinnik, founder of Barter Defi, decentralized finance (defi) protocols are increasingly becoming the primary target of most hacking attacks because defi “lays bare its inner workings for all to see.” He said the open-source nature of defi means hackers and malicious actors have ample time to study and identify weaknesses or vulnerabilities […]
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
ft.com | Russell Napier
The writer advises financial institutions on asset allocation and is founder of The Practical History of Financial Markets course The...
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Russell Napier
With each passing day it becomes clearer that the developed world is in conflict with China. These conflicts are not fought directly on any battlefield but they are fought indirectly on battlefields, through China’s purchases of oil from both Russia and Iran, and in the sphere of trade and increasingly investment. These conflicts are, of course, linked. Already a Subscriber?
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
thestar.com | Russell Napier
With each passing day it becomes clearer that the developed world is in conflict with China. These conflicts are not fought directly on any battlefield but they are fought indirectly on battlefields, through China’s purchases of oil from both Russia and Iran, and in the sphere of trade and increasingly investment. These conflicts are, of course, linked. Already a Subscriber?
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Russell Napier
With each passing day it becomes clearer that the developed world is in conflict with China. These conflicts are not fought directly on any battlefield but they are fought indirectly on battlefields, through China’s purchases of oil from both Russia and Iran, and in the sphere of trade and increasingly investment. These conflicts are, of course, linked. Already a Subscriber?
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
thestar.com | Russell Napier
It is easy to assume the world of so-called “high finance” has little impact on your everyday life. One is constantly bombarded with news about financial instruments that seem esoteric and without real world impact. While some prices, such as the price of money — interest rates — directly impact all of us, others such as exchange rates, seem of limited import. Already a Subscriber?
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
uk.advfn.com | Russell Napier
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
thestar.com | Russell Napier
Most of us can see that there is a structural change underway in the world. Inflation, the war in Ukraine, climate change, the cold war between China and the West and the growing polarization of domestic polities all shine a light on the changes happening around us. All of these shifts have consequences for savers. The bad news is that few financial planners have any expertise in the political and geopolitical structural shifts already impacting the price of investments.
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May 7, 2023 | 
thestar.com | Russell Napier
The economic pain associated with rising interest rates is becoming more evident every day and has recently produced bank collapses in both the U.S. and Switzerland. Growing debt service problems in the developed world should come as no surprise. We are living through an unprecedented change in financial conditions. By the summer of 2020 interest rates had reached all-time lows.
