Ashok DhillonJan 31, 20177 minTake the Wreaking Balls to the Economies (#53)To those of us who follow these things, the past few years have been a study in the improbable becoming main-stream. In economic governan...
Ashok DhillonNov 28, 20168 minThe Shaky Steady, Unsteady State of 2016 (#52)The global economy managed to survive 2016 without a devastating crash or blowout, so far, and to our surprise, considering the flocks of...
Ashok DhillonAug 7, 201617 minAs Bad News Mounts – Outlook Grows Dimmer (#51)The latest economic and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers for the major economies were not reassuring. Even the United States which wa...
Ashok DhillonJun 2, 20163 minJune, 2016 – Half Way Mark – The Score? (#50)On June 1st, 2016, OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) Secretary General Angela Gurria gave the following assess...
Ashok DhillonApr 30, 20166 minGlobal Economy – Running Aground & Breaking Up (#49)To borrow a phrase from the American constitution and paraphrase, ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident’ – Central Banks have gone ins...
Ashok DhillonApr 11, 20167 minGlobal Economic Outlook – 2016 (Dangerous) (#48)So far, the first quarter of 2016 can only be described as extremely eventful and volatile. The year opened with a bang with the financia...
Ashok DhillonMar 22, 20165 minGlobal Economic Recovery – That Never Was (#47)Revisit of September 20, 2012 analysis: Since the financial meltdown of October 2008, cumulatively, global debt was estimated to be $142 ...
Ashok DhillonMar 1, 20166 minThe Cacophony of Daily Commentaries – Distorts Reality (#46)From January 2016, as the global stock markets fell, some precipitously, many reasons were trotted out daily to explain the sudden drops ...
Ashok DhillonFeb 12, 20166 minCentral Banks Face A Greater Monster – Of Their Making (#45)There is a growing monster of a financial crisis building. The biggest and most powerful Central Banks in the World created it, in the fo...
Ashok DhillonFeb 1, 20163 minFurther Manipulations of Markets – Further Routs Ahead (#44)As global economies continued their inexorable contraction into 2016, despite years of Central Bank’s interventions, and financial market...
Ashok DhillonJan 24, 20167 minMarket Routs Bring Out the Reassuring Bankers (#43)The recent multiple stock market routs have brought out the big international bankers, heads of stock exchanges, investment bankers and b...
Ashok DhillonJan 18, 20165 minCatastrophic Consequences – Of Misallocated Trillions (#42)Since later part of 2012, the start of the last round of QE by the Federal Reserve (the ‘Fed’), we at GETAnalysis.ca have been critical a...
Ashok DhillonJan 8, 20163 minGlobal Economies – Closing 2015 and Opening 2016 (#41)The end of 2015 was the culmination of 7 years of vast injections of cash as stimulative measures, and near zero interest rates policy (‘...
Ashok DhillonDec 20, 20157 minGlobal Economies 2015 – Once More Off-the-Cliff, Dear Friends…IV-b - BRICs (#40)Russia, economically, is in deep winter. Its current problems started when it decided to annex the Crimea Region of Ukraine in March 2014...
Ashok DhillonDec 19, 20157 minGlobal Economies 2015 – Once More Off-the-Cliff, Dear Friends…IV-a - BRICs (#39)We covered in Part 1, the 2nd and 3rd largest economies of the World, China and Japan; in Part 2, the Euro Zone and the U.K.; in Part 3, ...
Ashok DhillonDec 11, 20158 minGlobal Economies 2015 – Once More Off-the-Cliff, Dear Friends…III-b (#38)Canada is entering into its autumn of economic growth, and that seasonal change was brought on by the prolonged collapse of commodity pri...
Ashok DhillonDec 11, 20159 minGlobal Economies 2015 – Once More Off-the-Cliff, Dear Friends…III-a (#37)In Parts I and II, we covered Japan, China, the Euro Zone and the U.K. In Part III, we will look at the most powerful economy in the Worl...
Ashok DhillonDec 4, 201511 minGlobal Economies 2015 – Once More Off-the-Cliff, Dear Friends…II (#36)In Part I of this paper, we started by outlining the influence of the American Federal Reserve, particularly its actions post-2008 crash,...
Ashok DhillonNov 28, 20159 minGlobal Economies 2015 – Once More Off-the-Cliff, Dear Friends Part 1 (#35)The United States set the trend, as it has done for so much that happens in the World, everything from fast food, cars, to clothes, music...
Ashok DhillonAug 25, 20156 minThe Global Economies – The Escalating Train Wreck Part 3b (#34)CANADA: During the recession caused by the 2008 crisis, Canada was the least affected out of the G-7 countries. Its economy contracted th...