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Company tax deal is close, Paris and Berlin say
May 27th, 2021
International talks to rewrite the rules of cross-border taxation are in the home stretch with a deal possible in the coming weeks, the French and German finance ministers said yesterday. Nearly 140 countries are negotiating how to update rules ...
The end of the LBMA is nigh
May 20th, 2021
Basel 3 is on course to regulate the LBMA out of existence. And with it will go all the associated arbitrage business and position-taking on Comex, because most bullion bank trading desks will cease to exist. The only ...
Bitcoin plunges 30%; Other cryptocurrencies also plunged
May 20th, 2021
Bitcoin plunged 30% to near $30,000 at one point on Wednesday, continuing a major sell-off in the cryptocurrency markets that began a week ago. The digital currency hit as low as $30,001.51 as the selling intensified Wednesday before paring ...
Why interest rate management fails
April 23rd, 2021
This article explains why attempting to achieve economic outcomes by managing interest rates fails. The basis of monetary interventionist theories ignores the discoveries of earlier free-market thinkers, particularly Say, Turgot and Böhm-Bawerk. It also ignores Gibson’s paradox, which ...
The global debt problem
April 15th, 2021
It has been recently estimated that global debts stand at $284 trillion equivalent, representing 355% of global GDP. Estimates such as these must be treated with caution, and they probably underestimate financial sector debt. Furthermore, no allowance in ...
ESMA: Retail clients continue to lose out due to high investment products costs
April 15th, 2021
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities regulator, published its third annual statistical report on the cost and performance of European Union (EU) retail investment products. In the report ESMA finds that the costs of investing ...
CySEC: Withdrawn of the Investors Compensation Fund membership
April 5th, 2021
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued an announcement on April 2, 2021, to inform that the Investors Compensation Fund (‘the ICF’) has withdrawn the ICF membership of a member after the CySEC’s decision to withdraw the Cyprus ...
Say’s law and the destruction of savings
April 2nd, 2021
This article explains the fundamental mistake behind Keynes’s General Theory, the vade mecum for all macro and mathematical economists today. It is no exaggeration to say that his casual rejection of Jean-Baptiste Say’s economic theories in his off-hand ...
The pound pushed higher on Monday
March 29th, 2021
The pound pushed higher on Monday as the UK’s vaccine rollout programme steamed ahead and the economy started to reopen under prime minister Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown. Sterling was 0.4% up against the dollar at €1.3844 and ...
CySEC reached a settlement with a Cyprus Investment Firm for €50.000
March 24th, 2021
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has today announced that has reached a settlement with a Cyprus Investment Firm for possible violations. In accordance with the CySEC’s announcement: CySEC, under article 37(4) of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange ...
