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European Property Investors shift in opportunities in smaller economies
October 24th, 2016
The European commercial real-estate market is shifting, with the hottest cities cooling off as investors’ interest in other locations grows. Real-estate markets throughout Europe saw investors pile in following the 2008 financial crisis. With the European Central Bank and ...
Fiat money and gold
October 21st, 2016
It is time to revisit the Fiat Money Quantity (FMQ), which totals US dollar money deposited in the banking system, the commercial banks’ money on deposit at the Fed and physical cash. Besides alerting us to how the expansion ...
Yuan Set for Biggest Weekly Drop Since January as Pressures Rise
October 14th, 2016
Decline in exports supports case for further depreciation: ANZ Chinese currency retreats as dollar climbs on Fed rate bets China’s yuan headed for the biggest weekly decline since January as mainland markets returned from holidays to face intensified depreciation ...
Trade deals – a global issue
October 7th, 2016
The annual Conservative Party conference commenced last Sunday, and the media focus was mostly about the Government’s stance on Brexit. This is hardly surprising, because Mrs May is being secretive, avoiding stoking a public spat with the EU by ...
America is on a slippery slope
September 30th, 2016
It hadn’t happened before, at least not since US presidents started visiting foreign countries after the Second World War. In early September, when President Obama landed at Hangzhoi for the G-20 summit in early September, the CIA security men ...
BNP Paribas works on Blockchain Technology to develop new products and services
September 26th, 2016
BNP Paribas is currently working with a number of clients to co-develop new products and services, after embarking on a collaborative process during the first-ever BNP Paribas ‘Blockchain Bizhackathon’ earlier this year, focusing on Transaction Banking activities. Based on the promising ...
The root cause of monetary confusion
September 23rd, 2016
Arguments about sound and unsound money often degenerate into a them-and-us dispute, with the supporters of unsound money casting sound money proponents as impractical out-of-date libertarian weirdos. Supporting one side or the other as if they were opposing football ...
The impoverishment of the masses
September 14th, 2016
Feudal and mercantilist economic systems were characterised by the lower orders of ordinary people being enslaved by, or subjected to, the commands of an elite. Beyond basic subsistence, serfs and slaves were not enabled to consume other goods, nor ...
Oil prices fell on Tuesday on concerns over increased drilling in the United States
September 13th, 2016
Oil fell on Tuesday following a series of gloomy predictions on demand growth that suggested the global overhang of unused inventories may persist for much longer than investors anticipate and temper any pick-up in price. The International Energy Agency ...
Fed’s Dislike of Negative Interest Rates Points to Limits of Stimulus Measures
August 29th, 2016
Federal Reserve officials are content to watch others’ experience of negative rates from a distance Federal Reserve officials are turning a cold shoulder to a controversial idea being tried in Japan and much of Europe to boost anemic economies: ...
