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Accounting whistleblower turns down multi-million reward
August 22nd, 2016
A whistleblower whose information helped reveal false accounting at Deutsche Bank has turned down a huge financial reward from the Securities and Exchange Commission in protest of failure to punish wrong-doing executives at the bank. Eric Ben-Artzi, a former Deutsche risk ...
The Odds of a Global Food Crisis Are Rising
August 22nd, 2016
The vulnerability of global food production to extremes of weather is a profound reality that few grasp. Given the current abundance of food globally, confidence in permanent food surpluses and low grain prices is high. Few worry that the ...
Rakuten buys struggling bitcoin startup Bitnet to create a ‘blockchain research lab’
August 19th, 2016
Rakuten has confirmed that it has acquired the assets of Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup it invested in, which will be used to create a ‘bitcoin lab’ for the Japanese retail giant. The transaction is undisclosed but it follows a Wall Street Journal ...
CFTC charges TradeMasters and its owner for fraud
August 18th, 2016
CFTC Alleges Schacke and his Company TradeMasters Fraudulently Solicited at Least $155,626 from at Least 36 Investors Federal Court Issues Restraining Order Protecting Defendants’ Books and Records and Granting the CFTC Access to Such Records The U.S. Commodity Futures ...
European stocks choppy as investors await Fed minutes
August 17th, 2016
European stocks were lower on Wednesday after initially opening higher, as investors remain cautious ahead of the closely-watched release of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest minutes. The pan-European STOXX 600 was down 0.5 percent, with all sectors in the red, with ...
Former Deloitte boss launch CogitalGroup; Can be a Big Four challenger?
August 16th, 2016
After weeks of speculation, the new venture by former Deloitte global chairman John Connolly and private equity house HgCapital was officially announced on Friday, though somewhat under whelmingly given the fanfare one may expect from the birth of a ...
Public Interest Lawyers to close down
August 16th, 2016
Theresa May said to be pleased at closure of Public Interest Lawyers, which submitted allegations of unlawful killing The government has said it is planning a clampdown on legal firms pursuing what it calls “spurious claims” against military personnel ...
Japan stocks drop as oil prices slip
August 16th, 2016
Shares in Asia were mixed on Tuesday, with record gains in the U.S. market overnight offset by a dip in oil prices and a firmer yen. The Nikkei Stock Average NIK, -1.62% was down 1.1% in early morning trade, after flip-flopping ...
The US dollar could stay stuck in a rut until after November
August 16th, 2016
The U.S. dollar is stuck in a rut, and it could stay there for a while. Dollar bulls have been falling by the wayside this summer, as the U.S.Federal Reserve looks further away from tightening its monetary policy. The currency also runs ...
Why Say’s law is always true
August 12th, 2016
One of my regular readers has raised the important subject of Say’s law, the denial of which both Keynesian and modern monetarists are emphatic. They need this fundamental axiom to be untrue to justify state stimulation of aggregate demand. ...
