recent publications (elsewhere)

Iraqi pawn to check Chinese King? published at ZeroHedge

Investigates whether Iraq was invaded to install a puppet government that would funnel petro-dollars into US Treasuries with the aim of ending China’s hegemony in the US bond market.

What do you do? published at ZeroHedge

An attempt to harness a brain-trust of sorts in order to identify the options available to the Chinese government for safely extracting maximum value from its soon to be worthless holdings of US bonds.

Far-fetched scenario – a stronger post-apocalypse Russia? published at ZeroHedge

Discusses a long-term scenario where the US defaults on its obligations and attacks China, with a resulting boost to Russian power.

High Frequency Trading and systemic instability published at ZeroHedge

An analysis of the systemic instability wrought by the practice of High Frequency Trading.