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Daniel Lacalle

Daniel Lacalle, Ph.D., is chief economist at hedge fund Tressis and author of “Freedom or Equality,” “Escape from the Central Bank Trap,” and “Life in the Financial Markets.”

Europe Needs to ‘Harmonize’ to Ireland, Not to France

Whenever we talk about tax cuts and growth-oriented tax programs in Europe, many tell us that “it is ...

Viewpoints July 23, 2018
OPEC’s Dilemma

Oil has made a spectacular comeback this year, rising from $60 per barrel at the beginning of the ...

Markets July 22, 2018
Brexit: May’s Way Is Not the Only Way

If there is anything we have learned from the development of the British economy since the Brexit referendum ...

Viewpoints July 18, 2018
The Real Source of Emerging Market Stress

Last week, emerging markets experienced the highest outflows since September 2015. Even the Chinese market and its currency have ...

Viewpoints July 9, 2018
Tax Cuts Work

It happened again. Tax receipts soared in the United States after the recent tax cuts. Although it will take ...

Viewpoints July 5, 2018
The Eurozone’s Coming Debt Crisis

The European Central Bank (ECB) has signaled the end of its asset purchase program and even a possible ...

Viewpoints June 29, 2018
Risk Off? Not Really

The recent strength in the U.S. dollar and stock market weakness has the media believing we are in ...

Viewpoints June 24, 2018
G7 Summit Highlights Western Leaders’ Hypocrisy

The G7 failure to come to terms on trade highlights the problem of governments trying to macromanage trade. ...

Viewpoints June 12, 2018
Italy: Europe’s Populist Fantasyland

The populist coalition in Italy has presented an “economic” program and a threat to the European Union that ...

Viewpoints June 12, 2018
Sudden Stop: The Risk of an Emerging Markets Crisis

The recent collapse of the Argentine Peso and other emerging currencies is more than a warning sign. It ...

Viewpoints May 22, 2018
Why High Taxes Are Counterproductive

In Argentina and many other countries, governments suffer from a chronic shortage of money to spend. In other ...

Viewpoints May 4, 2018
Why the Petroyuan Is Off to a Slow Start

The Chinese have recently launched oil market future contracts in its local currency, the yuan. This is big ...

Viewpoints April 27, 2018
Why China Has Already Lost the Trade War

The major developed economies have allowed China to get away with its protectionism and interventionism measures because it ...

Viewpoints April 20, 2018
Powell Is a Welcome Surprise

The mandate of Janet Yellen in the Federal Reserve can be considered the “lost opportunity.” Yellen and the Fed delayed urgent and justified ...

Viewpoints March 30, 2018
Are Central Banks Nationalizing the Economy?

In rough numbers and at the end of 2017, leading central banks now own a fifth of their ...

Viewpoints February 1, 2018
Do Not Forget Cuba

It's easy to forget about Cuba. It's there. It doesn't bother anyone. However, it still serves as the ...

Viewpoints January 11, 2018
Why the Critics of the Tax Reform Are Wrong

Mainstream commentary on the tax reform is mostly negative. But why is the response from the globalist crowd ...

Viewpoints December 29, 2017
China’s Two Choices: Crisis or Stagnation

China's third-quarter GDP growth of 6.8 percent was suspiciously in line with the government mandate and most analyst ...

China Business & Economy October 25, 2017
The Fed’s ‘Normalization’

The saying goes that the biggest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he does not ...

Economies October 10, 2017
A Euro Nightmare for the European Central Bank

The primary purposes of the incorrectly named "unconventional monetary policies" are to debase the currency, stoke inflation, and make exports ...

Business August 17, 2017
The Bear Market in Commodities

For many traders, it was a shock to see the barrel of oil collapse to 12-month lows in ...

Business July 5, 2017

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