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The truth about GDP
December 1st, 2015
“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth” – George Canning Canning’s aphorism is as valid today as when he was Britain’s Prime Minister in 1817. Unfortunately, his wisdom is ignored completely by mainstream economists. Nowhere is this ...
Biggest Oil Buyers Pick Themselves as Winners From OPEC Meeting
November 27th, 2015
OPEC to meet Dec. 4 in Vienna to discuss oil production target South Korean refiner sees `best time ever’ as buyer amid glut Oil buyers in Asia are sure of one thing as OPEC prepares to meet: They’ll emerge ...
FCA fines Barclays £72 million. Barclays announces settlement
November 26th, 2015
FCA fines Barclays £72 million for poor handling of financial crime risks Barclays announces settlement with the FCA The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today fined Barclays Bank (Barclays) £72,069,400 for failing to minimise the risk that it may ...
HMRC collects £3.5bn from investigations into big businesses’ underpaid corporation tax
November 23rd, 2015
HMRC collected an extra £3.5bn in corporate tax from challenging businesses on their payments in the last tax year, according to figures from Pinsent Masons. The £3.5bn came from investigations into underpaid corporation tax carried out by HMRC’s Large Business ...
Ominous Parallels: The Roman Empire, The European Union, And Mass Migration
November 18th, 2015
This weekend’s Paris attacks, occurring in the middle of one of history’s largest mass-migrations, has the feel of uncharted territory. But it’s actually an eerie echo of something that happened nearly two thousand years ago in more-or-less the same ...
The declining interest rate cap
November 17th, 2015
Believe it or not, one of the topics in economics that confuses macroeconomists is the actual role of interest rates. For the most part they just assume that an interest rate is the cost of money, the price of ...
Gold Prices Rise as Paris Attacks Spark Safe-Haven Demand
November 17th, 2015
Gold’s gains could be short lived, analysts say, as the market refocuses on the U.S. Federal Reserve Gold prices rose, breaking a three-session losing streak as the terror attacks in Paris sparked safe-haven demand for the metal. The precious metal has ...
5 Ways The Paris Attacks Could Hit Europe’s Economy
November 16th, 2015
The consequences could be far-reaching–and not just negative. It is, of course, far too early to do anything more than speculate. But common sense says that there must be consequences for business and for the European economy from the ...
No Serious Financial Repercussions from the Paris Attacks? Don’t Be Too Sure
November 16th, 2015
Global sentiment might switch decisively from “risk-on” to “risk-off” with far-reaching consequences. Goldman Sachs has helpfully announced that any financial repercussions from the attacks in Paris will be short-lived, and the political repercussions will be medium-term: Increased uncertainty likely ...
Deloitte eyes global accountancy blockchains
November 13th, 2015
Good karma was the consensus among those watching and in attendance at Ethereum’s DevCon1 conference when big four accountancy firm Deloitte took to the stage in the guise of the technology-focused Rubix Project. Matthew Spoke, strategy and execution lead ...
