… a regional conflict in the Middle East. • Monetary: The initial skirmishes of the 'global currency wars' have been seen in recent years. We are experiencing a mere lull in currency wars but expect them to return with a vengeance when economic …

The government disallowed Canadians from redeeming their banknotes for gold to finance the wartime effort through an inflationary tax. Canadians hoarded the governmentally issued currency with the hope cashing it as a claim against the gold after the …

Another thing is apparent: South European nations, the “peripheral” ones in current parlance, have a hardship-softener too little factored into assessments of E.U. crisis — the sun — even if Germany has the money. That is one reason, along with the …

(How does a Currency War affect your FX trading? Take our free course to find out!) EURUSDDaily: July 1, 2013. Euro-Zone_Inflation_Continues_to_Rebound_Off_a_3-Year_Low__body_eurusd_daily_chart.png, Euro-Zone Inflation Continues to Rebound …

Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, tried to blame a “global currency war”—in which Washington, Beijing and Tokyo supported their own currencies in a way that drove up the value of Brazil's currency—for hurting exports and aggravating inflation.

It foreign currency reserves had dropped from $17 billion to $4.5 billion and that unemployment had increased five-fold, from 500,000 to more than 2.5 million. Syrias currency, the pound, was trading at 47 pounds to the U.S. dollar before the civil war …

The same group had directed CIA secret wars in Southeast Asia between 1965 and 1975. In Laos they backed up Vang Pao, a major opium trafficker. Drug money was used to train Hmong tribesmen in guerrilla war, resulting in the assassination of 100,000 …

AMMAN, Jordan — More than two years of fighting in Syria's civil war has damaged some 9,000 state buildings and run up $15 billion in losses to the public sector, a government minister said Sunday, shining a light on the devastating toll the crisis …

And let me remind you, the currency war we face will be the first in the era of true fiat currencies, without the anchor of gold in the 1930s or the aftermath of Bretton Woods (and the dollar standard) that we saw in the last major currency wars. From …