The Limits of Economic Experimentation
Apr 2016 Issue
Pacifica Partners Spring 2016 Quarterly Commentary: This quarter’s newsletter gets its title from the growing global trend towards the acceptance of negative interest rates as a component of mainstream economic policy. Negative interest rate policy (NIRP) is increasingly being seen as an act of economic desperation by the markets. Currently,…
Read moreTaking an Inventory of Investor Worries
Apr 2016 Issue
The Pacifica Partners Winter 2016 Quarterly Commentary: Most years, financial markets tend to rally in the month of December. As the 2015 holiday season wound down, investors found that Santa had deprived them of their traditional yearend rally. Instead of a rally, investors were left showered with volatility to close…
Read moreMr. Xi Goes to Washington
Apr 2016 Issue
One would have to go back a long way to remember when China’s place in the world was even up for debate. As Chinese President Xi Jinping came to the US for his first state visit last week and second visit as President of China, many are looking at China…
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