The Misleading Comfort of Calm
Have the headlines below given investors a sense of continuing peace, rest, and optimism regarding their financial futures? IMF slashes world growth forecast again, CNBC, April 12 ‘16 G7: Global Growth an Urgent Priority, Al Jazeera, May 27 ’16 ‘Act Now or Risk Another Deep Downturn’, OECD Warns, Yahoo Finance, June 1 ‘16 ‘World Seeing Greatest Monetary Policy Experiment in History’ – Rothschild, RT, Aug 17 ‘16 Global Bonds Suffer Worst Monthly Meltdown as $1.7 Trillion Lost,