https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story--1034-.htm Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:22:40 PDT Updated every 10 minutes - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY Copyright: (C) Castanet.net https://www.castanet.net/rss/ https://www.castanet.net/main_images/logos/KelownaLogos/Castanet_Logo.jpg https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story--1034-.htm https://www.castanet.net/news/Economics-101/156229/Low-interest-rates-Beware https://www.castanet.net/news/Economics-101/156229/Low-interest-rates-Beware Fri, 15 Jan 2016 06:00:00 PDT Derrick Nicholson Artificially Low Interest Rates, part 2 In my last article, I wrote about the ways that government intervention and central bankers have artificially suppressed global interest rates below their natural free market levels. This has significantly punished the savers of the world, as the retur... https://www.castanet.net/news/Economics-101/152714/Artificially-low-interest-rates https://www.castanet.net/news/Economics-101/152714/Artificially-low-interest-rates Fri, 04 Dec 2015 06:00:00 PDT Derrick Nicholson We presently live in an environment of global artificially-low interest rates. What does this mean? Well, governments and central banks around the world are actively engaging in the bond markets to suppress interest rates below where the free market equilibrium would have these rates today. ... https://www.castanet.net/news/Economics-101/147105/Stock-market-not-the-worry https://www.castanet.net/news/Economics-101/147105/Stock-market-not-the-worry Fri, 04 Sep 2015 05:00:00 PDT Contributed Three weeks ago, I penned a column, It's Later Than You Think, to discuss what I felt was a significant economic event likely to occur before the end of this calendar year. It appears that things are moving faster than I expected, as the unwinding of our global financial system is underway already. ... https://www.castanet.net/news/Economics-101/145110/It-s-later-than-you-think https://www.castanet.net/news/Economics-101/145110/It-s-later-than-you-think Fri, 07 Aug 2015 05:00:00 PDT Contributed I've been writing about the potential for an upcoming financial crash for the past two and a half years. It would appear that we are closer than ever to this event; we may even experience it before year end. On Monday of this week China experienced its second largest stock market crash in history; f...