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America: The best place to put your money
December 8th, 2014
If you slept through the past five years, you missed a helluva ride for the American stock market. Not only did U.S. equities trounce their depressing performance from last decade, but they left all other major markets in the ...
Why Bitcoin Remittance Services Should Leave the ‘Bitcoin’ Part Out
December 8th, 2014
The sister cities of Hong Kong and Macau currently house more than 200,000 migrant Filipinos between them. The breakdown is fairly homogenous in terms of occupation: the largest group consists of 160,000 Filipinas working on Foreign Domestic Helper visas ...
How Did Germany Limit Unemployment in the Recession?
December 8th, 2014
Here’s a puzzle: During the Great Recession, the total contraction in economic output was noticeably larger in Germany than in the United States, but the rise in the unemployment rate was noticeably higher in the United States than in ...
Business lobby warning on chancellor’s new ‘Google tax’
December 5th, 2014
The chancellor wants multinationals to pay their “fair share” of tax The Confederation of British Industry has warned over Chancellor George Osborne’s plans for the UK to “go it alone” on corporate tax reform. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation ...
7 risk areas for the 2014 audit cycle
December 5th, 2014
Revenue recognition, internal control over financial reporting, and professional skepticism are among the seven key areas for 2014 audit consideration, according to an alert sent Thursday by the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ). The alert is designed to help ...
Black Swans and Crowded Trades
December 5th, 2014
There’s definitely something strange going on in the equity markets at the moment and it surely looks weird. Am I seeing things? The primal emotion of fear certainly does not appear on many traders and fund managers radar ...
Osborne moves to cut spending to 1930s levels in dramatic autumn statement
December 4th, 2014
The chancellor, George Osborne, has set out dramatic plans to move Britain from the red into the black that will see public spending as a percentage of GDP fall to its lowest level since the 1930s and could require ...
ECB Weighs Further Action As Economic Picture Darkens
December 4th, 2014
The European Central Bank will spell out the scale of economic malaise facing the euro zone after it meets on Thursday under growing pressure to take dramatic action to prevent the bloc going into reverse. With recovery stalled across much of ...
Sony Pictures hack: Leaked Data Reveals A Big Gender Pay Gap At The Top Of Deloitte
December 4th, 2014
In the mid-2000s, the auditing and consulting firm Deloitte had a gender pay problem. The chart below comes from Fusion, which analyzed 2005 salary information for over 30,000 employees. The data was leaked as part of the major Sony Pictures ...
Toyota to recall 190,000 cars in Japan, China over Takata air bags
December 4th, 2014
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Thursday it would call back 190,000 more vehicles, mostly in Japan, to replace potentially defective air bags made by Takata Corp (7312.T), the latest in a long line of recalls for the embattled auto ...
