Baltic Dry Index.
Posted on 07/29/2016 8:49:47 AM PDT by Lorianne
Falling rates of global trade growth have attracted much comment by analysts and officials, giving rise to a literature on the ‘global trade slowdown’ (Hoekman 2015, Constantinescu et al. 2016). The term ‘slowdown’ gives the impression of world trade losing momentum, but growing nonetheless. The sense of the global pie getting larger has the soothing implication that one nation’s export gains don’t come at the expense of another’s. But are we right to be so sanguine?
World trade volume plateaued around January 2015
Using what is widely regarded as the best available data on global trade dynamics, namely, theWorld Trade Monitor prepared by the Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, the 19th Report of the Global Trade Alert, published today, evaluates global trade dynamics (Evenett and Fritz 2016). Our first finding that the rosy impression painted by some should be set aside. We demonstrate that:
-World export volumes reached a plateau at the start of January 2015. The same finding holds if import volume or total volume data are used instead.
-Both industrialised countries’ and emerging markets’ trade volumes have plateaued
(Excerpt) Read more at weforum.org ...
No matter. The globalists like Jorge Busho already accomplished their goal, viz. to put 1st world countries on the road to 3rd world status. Traitors like the Bush’s, of course, will always be insulated from their crimes.
When the baltic dry Index is low...nothing is working properly
...no shipping no sales
very simple.
The best indicator is the BDI which has collapsed.
But how can that be?
Obola and Hitlery tells us things have never been better!
Recent California Long Beach port transport project believes if you build it, they will come...
Long Beach Port project means more cargo by rail, less by trucks
www.presstelegram.com/business/20150916/long-beach-po... Proxy Highlight
Sep 16, 2015 ... A third rail line has been added underneath Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach, CA on Wednesday, September 16, 2015.
Stupid question....why do they call it the Baltic Dry Index?
The Baltic isn’t dry. And it involves goods moving by sea.
See post# 9.
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