The U.S. and Mexico struck a trade deal on Monday that paved the way to replace NAFTA, the current agreement between the two nations and Canada. Mexican officials promised the Latin American country would start buying as farm product as possible from the USA. Nextbigfuture notes that the USA was always the 800-pound gorilla in …
The U.S. economy is growing at a fast clip, and the bull market is entering its ninth year. Some economists are starting worry over rising interest rates and a negative signal from the bond market called a flattening yield curve. The yield curve—with one exception in 1966—has basically predicted every recession according to Natixis Chief …
Although there has been a lot of recovery from the 2008 financial crisis there are still many countries with fragile economies. Argentina has 29% inflation and 9.1% unemployment. South Africa has 27% unemployment and there were predictions that some cities were on the brink of collapse. Turkey’s currency has lost nearly 40% of its value …
A research paper claims that if the world stays at 2 degrees celsius of warming versus going up to 4 degrees celsius of warming then the world economy will be US$17.5 trillion per year stronger in 2100. At 4 degrees Celsius of global warming, the losses in income to the global economy are claimed to …
A cup of coffee in Venezuela costs 2 million Bolivars but the week before it was 1.4 million Bolivars. This means the prices are doubling every two weeks. 26 doublings in a year is 67 million which is 6.7 billion percent inflation. The Post-World War II hyperinflation of Hungary held the record where prices doubled …
US second quarter grew at 4.1% but GDP failed to meet some of forecasters’ loftiest targets. Above are the components of Q2 GDP growth Real GDP 4.1 percent in the second quarter and the first quarter was adjusted to 2.2%. If growth continues at 3.0 percent the next two quarters, then real GDP growth will …
China’s debt-to-GDP ratio is the sum of corporate debt, household debt, and government debt all together as a portion of GDP. This ratio is currently around 250 to 260 percent of GDP. Globally, China is in the middle of the pack – higher than most developing but lower than most developed. Now think about at …
Poland has had annual GDP growth that mostly stayed in the 3-7% from 1993 to 2018. Nominal GDP per capita went from $5000 per person in 1993 to about $15800 per person in 2018. On a purchasing power parity basis per capita income is $27000 per person which is about the same as Portugal. Poland …
In 2014, the population of LDCs (Least Developed Countries) was 898 million—1/8 of the world’s total. The population in LDCs is expected to more than double between 2010 and 2050. In the same time period, the total world population is expected to grow less than 40%. However, the number of least developed countries will drop …
The Bureau of Economic Analysis indicates that California had GDP growth of 3.4% and Texas had GDP growth of 5.2%. At the end of 2017, California had a GDP of $2.80 trillion and Texas had a GDP of 1.75 trillion. The US has a GDP of $19.6 trillion at the end of 2017. In May, …
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has a report that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has spent $340 billion from 2014-2017. Private companies in China tend to invest in the USA, UK, Switzerland and Australia. They are acquiring hotels, entertainment firms and real estate. There is also some M and A activity for buying profitable …
