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Geopolitics post COVID-19

07/05/2020(0)
  Before the coronavirus caused governments to impose lockdowns, whole economies, markets and even currencies were already on course to be destroyed by a vicious downturn in bank lending ... Read More
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What is a negative crude oil price and does it mean anything for consumers?

23/04/2020(0)
The price of a barrel of benchmark US oil plunged below zero dollars a barrel on Monday (April 20) for the first time in history, a troubling sign of ... Read More
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Spain proposes a Fund linked to the European budget as an alternative to coronabonds

22/04/2020(0)
The European Council will discuss the European Recovery Fund at its meeting on Thursday 23 April. If last week France was talking about a fund of 500 billion euros, ... Read More
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What happens when the pandemic ends?

15/04/2020(0)
Let’s assume that by the end of this year a combination of social distancing and some new and effective treatments convert covid-19 from existential threat to chronic nuisance and ... Read More
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Business investment up to 25.8% in the euro area

09/04/2020(0)
In the fourth quarter of 2019, before COVID-19 containment measures began to be widely introduced by Member States, the business investment rate was 25.8% in the euro area, compared ... Read More
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A primer for gold newbies

07/04/2020(0)
  The purpose of this article is purely educational. Increasingly, the wider public is turning to gold in a spontaneous reaction to financial and economic problems that have become ... Read More
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Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection

07/04/2020(0)
Europe’s data protection watchdog has called for a single coronavirus app to be used across the EU, instead of every country making its own. Several countries are developing tracking ... Read More
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Hourly labour costs ranged from €6.0 to €44.7 across the EU Member States in 2019

31/03/2020(0)
In 2019, average hourly labour costs in the whole economy (excluding agriculture and public administration) were estimated to be €27.7 in the European Union of 27 Member States (EU) ... Read More
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Gold Is Now “Unobtanium”

30/03/2020(0)
The Wall Street Journal just published the kind of article gold bugs dream of seeing in the mainstream press. Here’s an excerpt: “Coronavirus Sparks a Global Gold Rush Epic ... Read More
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Payments panic and the ending of fiat currencies

24/03/2020(0)
The unilateral response from governments to the coronavirus is to helicopter money to people and their businesses in unlimited quantities. Their priority is to keep the debt-driven Keynesian show ... Read More
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