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Greece Enters Its Crack-Up Boom
July 9th, 2015
The Austrian School of economics has a concept called a “crack-up boom” in which a critical mass of people conclude that their government is actively trying to devalue its currency. Consumers respond by front-running the government, spending their paychecks ...
Greek debt crisis: Where do other eurozone countries stand?
July 9th, 2015
Eurozone leaders are back in Brussels to discuss how to deal with the growing debt crisis in Greece. Greek voters overwhelmingly rejected the terms of an international bailout on Sunday. Although some countries are keen to strike a compromise, ...
China stocks rise after Beijing slaps curbs on selling
July 9th, 2015
Chinese stocks rallied on Thursday after the securities regulator banned shareholders with large stakes in listed firms from selling, in Beijing’s most drastic step yet to stem a sell-off that has roiled global financial markets. As the daily drumbeat ...
European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
July 8th, 2015
A global stock market crash has begun. European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocks are crashing, and commodities are crashing. And guess what? All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too. In so many ways, it seems like we ...
Westpac VC invests in Bitcoin player Coinbase
July 8th, 2015
In a deal that will put Westpac Banking Corp in the box seat as cryptocurrencies develop, the bank’s venture capital fund, Reinventure Group, has invested in Coinbase, one of the world’s pre-eminent Bitcoin companies. In the first deal involving ...
Greece debt crisis: Tsipras appeals for European unity
July 8th, 2015
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called for the European Union to avoid division, as indebted Greece struggles to stay in the euro. In a sometimes stormy debate in the European Parliament, he said: “Let’s not let Europe be ...
Top Stories of the day July 07
July 7th, 2015
1. Rift Emerges as Europe Gears Up for New Talks on Greece Bailout. If a deal is not struck soon, Greece will probably default on a batch of international debts this month and face even more trouble paying civil ...
Bitcoin: What you didn’t know but always wanted to ask
July 7th, 2015
A new technology for the banking world: “The internet of money” In 2008, an individual or group writing under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper that described a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that “would allow online ...
Rift Emerges as Europe Gears Up for New Talks on Greece Bailout
July 7th, 2015
Germany continued to maintain a hard line with Athens on Monday, just a day after Greek voters decisively rejected a bailout deal from its creditors. But some European countries showed a willingness to soften the push for austerity that ...
Third Visa Europe Collab opens in Berlin
July 6th, 2015
With the Visa Europe Collab innovation hubs in London (launch date: 1st May) and Tel Aviv (launch date: 23rd May) up and running, Berlin today becomes the official home of the third Visa Europe Collab. Visa Europe Collab in Berlin shares the mission ...
