Brexit: Why Nobody Can Predict How the U.K. Will Vote
This article originally appeared in The Politics Counter. Read the original article. Anybody who says they know for sure how Britain will vote next week is fool or a liar, and possibly both. Since last weekend, we have had ten…
Grexit News And Stock Returns
Grexit News And Stock Returns Andreas Haupenthal University of Trier Matthias Neuenkirch University of Trier – Faculty of Economics June 16, 2016 Universitat Trier, Research Paper in Economics No. 8/16 Abstract: During the first eight months of 2015, there was…
The Stock Market, Iron Ore, Bitcoin – Is Silver Next For Chinese Momentum Investors?
The Stock Market, Iron Ore, Bitcoin – Is Silver Next For Chinese Momentum Investors? by John Lee, CFA The roulette game all started in the fall of 2014, about 2 years after Chairman Xi Jinping came to power and became…
House upholds NSA phone snooping as terrorist attacks shift debate
With the terrorist-inspired Orlando shooting fresh in their minds, House lawmakers reversed course last week and voted to uphold the government’s ability to snoop through its data when it believes American citizens are involved in terrorism – suggesting the post-Snowden…
Internet regulations: From the US to Australia
Editor’s note: Free flow of information on the internet is the ideal state. When the internet began connecting people and became important in people’s economic and social life across the world, users realized that the internet had all things of…
Regulators Seek To Limit Bonuses For Risk Taking At Big Banks
Can regulators curb excessive risk taking at firms who put the economy in jeopardy by limiting their executive bonuses? One primary criticism of executives at financial institutions that received a government bailout in 2008 is that they were blinded by…
5 Things We Learned This Week: Tech & Science
From the decline of self-identified environmentalists to the drop in honeybee colonies, here are five things we learned in Tech & Science this week. Ransomware’s pernicious reach can affect anyone, and there is little to do once you’re targeted by…
The ‘Brexit’ Referendum Is Already Damaging Britain
Undoubtedly the most pressing issue for the U.K. economy is the impact that uncertainty ahead of the EU referendum is having on activity. Concerns over the referendum have risen, most evident in a spike in uncertainty over public policy (measured…
Zimbabwe’s trillion-dollar note: from worthless paper to hot investment
The trillion dollar question: inflation in Zimbabwe hit 79.6 billion per cent. Photograph: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP A trillion, by the way, is a million million. There are 12 zeros in a trillion. Add another two to reach the total on the…
God, Cocaine, Forgetting: Trump’s New Economic Adviser
The story of the man who might rewrite America’s tax plan if Donald Trump is elected is, as the mogul might say, really, really fantastic, just terrific. It’s a story of God, cocaine, money and forgetting—but maybe not in that…