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Why economists cannot forecast recessions
July 28th, 2017
The purpose of this article is to draw the widest attention to the chronic inability of the economic establishment to forecast recessions. Next time you hear an economist make a prediction on mainstream media, your default assumption should ...
International association of independent and global accounting firm announced new President
July 26th, 2017
DFK International has appointed Roland Graf as the global accountancy association’s new president. Roland is a popular and prominent member of DFK and a partner and specialist tax lawyer at Peters, Schönberger & Partner (PSP), a multi-disciplinary firm located ...
How Bitcoin is infiltrating the $60bn global art market
July 26th, 2017
Why is the art world getting excited about digital currency Bitcoin and its underlying technology blockchain? Eleesa Dadiani owns and runs an art gallery in London’s famous Cork Street. She was born in Georgia in the Caucasus and was ...
Australian financial services provider pays penalties
July 25th, 2017
Financial Choice Pty Ltd (Financial Choice), an Australian financial services provider, has paid two ASIC infringement notice penalties totalling $21,600, after making misleading representations in marketing emails sent to consumers and on its website. The first infringement notice related ...
Morgan Stanley reported second quarter earnings well above expectations
July 20th, 2017
Morgan Stanley shares jump after earnings, revenue easily beat the Street Morgan Stanley reported second quarter earnings Wednesday that soundly topped expectations, helped by an increase in stock trading revenues and profits from its wealth management business. Earnings per ...
The logic of a modern gold standard
July 14th, 2017
The logic of a modern gold standard In last week’s Insight, I analysed the current geopolitical situation and concluded that it was now in the interest of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to break from the US dollar completely, ...
EY promotes 669 new partners worldwide
July 12th, 2017
EY continues to advance women and partners from the emerging markets (comprising nearly 30% and 36% of all promotions respectively) Promotions demonstrate EY’s commitment to developing leaders EY announces that 669 people globally have been promoted to partner. For ...
Italy formally takes control of Monte dei Paschi
July 5th, 2017
The Italian government took control of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena on Tuesday, injecting EUR5.4 billion ($6.1 billion) into the troubled lender as part of a broad plan to bring one of Europe’s weakest banks back to health. ...
Multinational law firm has further grown its European offering
July 4th, 2017
Fieldfisher, a multinational law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom has issued an announcement to inform that has further grown its European offering with an office in Bologna, Italy. According the announcement: Fieldfisher continues meteoric growth with latest office ...
Global Law Firm Baker McKenzie Announces 80 Partnership Promotions
June 29th, 2017
Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie is pleased to announce the election of 80 new partners. This latest investment in the Firm’s expertise grows the total number of partners worldwide to nearly 1,600. Over 400 of these are women ...
