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Samsung is planning to re-sell refurbished phones at a lower price
August 22nd, 2016
Samsung plans to launch a programme to sell refurbished used versions of its premium smartphones as early as next year, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The South Korean technology firm is looking for ways ...
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 ...
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. ...
Financial technology: Money finds new paths
August 12th, 2016
Africa may be slowest to embrace fintech, but the continent is ripe for disruption. WHAT IT MEANS: Australia’s progress a benchmark for Africa. Africa’s unbanked are an opportunity for tech firms. Disruption of the banking sector is well on ...
TradeFx fired 80 workers in Israel; Playtech Cyprus Ltd looking to reduce the space planned to rent
August 11th, 2016
Sources inform “Globes” that following a wave of layoffs, Playtech Cyprus Ltd. (LSE:PTEC), managed by CEO Mor Weizer, notified Azrieli Group Ltd. (TASE: AZRG) last week that it was reducing the amount of space it had planned to rent in the new business tower ...
Asia mostly lower as oil retreats further; BOK keeps rates steady
August 11th, 2016
Asia markets were mostly lower on Thursday following U.S. losses, with sentiment likely driven by Wednesday’s oil price falls and anticipation of another data deluge from China on Friday. In Australia, the benchmark ASX 200 slid 35.71 points, or 0.64 percent, ...
Saving the system
August 10th, 2016
Monetary policy, we are told, is all about staving off recession and stimulating economic growth. However, not only is monetary debasement in any form counterproductive and destroys the personal wealth of the masses, but the economists who devised today’s ...
Goldman Sachs’s Fight to Avoid Paying Employees’ Legal Fees
August 9th, 2016
We know that paying for a lawyer can be an expensive proposition. The New York Times reported recently that a Turkish gold trader, Reza Zarrab, has hired a veritable who’s who of white-collar defense firms to defend him against charges of ...
Australia to regulate bitcoin under counter-terrorism finance laws
August 9th, 2016
Jakarta: Australia is moving to become one of the first countries to regulate e-currencies such as bitcoin under its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws. Bitcoin – the most prominent digital currency to emerge globally – is backed by a ...
Moscow Exchange Announces 2Q 2016 Results
August 9th, 2016
Moscow Exchange (MOEX) today announces its financial results under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the second quarter 2016. Earnings growth was supported by an increase in fee and commission income from all trading markets across the Exchange’s diversified ...
