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The serfs have rebelled – Europe next?
November 19th, 2016
Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom described how personal freedoms are progressively eroded by the state in the name of the common good. His warning is more associated with totalitarianism and dictatorships, than modern democracies, but the statist attitudes he ...
Perilous government finances
November 13th, 2016
President-elect Trump stated in his victory speech that he intends to make America great again by infrastructure spending. Unfortunately, he is unlikely to have the room for manoeuvre to achieve this ambition as well as his intended tax cuts, ...
Codes of behaviour
November 6th, 2016
Observing America’s presidential election from afar has been a curious experience for foreigners. The next President will be the de facto ruler of the advanced nations, unelected by them, but subject to his or her overreaching strategic commands. On ...
CySec announced Initiation of the compensation payment process for Falcon Brokers
October 31st, 2016
The Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform about its decision for Initiation of the compensation payment process by the Investor Compensation Fund for Clients of IFs (‘the I.C.F’) for Falcon Brokers Ltd. CySec’s decision is subject to paragraphs 3(1)(a) ...
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 ...
How not to manage a currency
October 15th, 2016
Make no mistake, sterling’s collapse is a very serious development, and has serious consequences for sterling interest rates. While it is becoming apparent that interest rates are going to have to rise possibly for all currencies on a one-year ...
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 ...
Man in Limassol – Cyprus in hunger strike as he believes that a Forex company cheated him with his investment
October 5th, 2016
As a Cyprus news website reports, a man from Romania living in Limassol – Cyprus begun a hunger strike as he believes that a Forex company cheated him and asks for 40,000 euro that he believes that belongs to ...
CySec approved two new Cyprus Investment Firms
October 4th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the financial regulatory authority of Cyprus, has issued announcements to inform that “IFC Investments Cyprus Ltd“ and “Jin Daocheng Ltd” have successfully obtained the CySec licence for CIF (Cyprus Investment Firm). The firms are ...
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 ...
