Global Debt Reaches 326% of GDP
Total global debt has peaked to 326% of global GDP, adding an additional $12 trillion of debt in the last three quarters of 2024, according to the Institute of International [...]
Peak in Investment Grade Corporate Debt Matures by 2021
We have a very interesting crisis building in addition to the political chaos we see coming in 2020. By the time we reach 2021, we will have over $2 trillion in investment grade corporate debt maturing. This is going to present some very interesting problems. Up to now, we have advised our corporate clients to borrow at these rates and lock it in for 30 to 100 years. The bulk of corporations, who we do not advise, funded themselves short-term. With about $2 trillion maturing by 2021, they will end up pushing interest rates higher from there onward.
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America’s Military Presence in Europe to Decline
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Trump’s Federal Freeze – Shrinking the Public Sector
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Free Speech in Germany Only if You Agree With Government
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/German-Free-Speech.mp4 Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. made it clear what Free Speech was in Schenk v. U.S., 249 U.S. 47 (1919) (1919), ruling that a restriction is legitimate only [...]
