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Europe

A Dysfunctional EU: What Future?

12/02/2016(0)
Many believe that the European Union is, and can only ever be, a force for good and that the 500-plus million citizens of its 28 Member States should be ... Read More
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Reversal Of Fortunes: Capital Pours Out Of Banks And Into Gold

12/02/2016(0)
        For banks, the recent news is pretty grim. But it’s about to get much worse, based on the following: Yield Curve Flattens: Now 10-Year Yields ... Read More
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Day Of Reckoning: The Collapse Of The Too Big To Fail Banks In Europe Is Here

11/02/2016(0)
There is so much chaos going on that I don’t even know where to start. For a very long time I have been warning my readers that a major ... Read More
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Dot-Com Bubble 2.0 Is Bursting: Tech Stocks Are Already Down Half A Trillion Dollars Since Mid-2015

08/02/2016(0)
Do you remember how much stocks went down when the first dot-com bubble burst? Well, it is happening again, and tech stocks are already down more than half a ... Read More
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Why We Won’t Have a “Lehman Moment” in the 2016 Crash

05/02/2016(0)
What the central banks cannot do is create productive places to invest the credit they’ve generated in such excess, or force qualified borrowers to swallow more unproductive debt. One ... Read More
Central Banks

This Is Really Bad For Banks

04/02/2016(0)
Once upon a time, falling interest rates were great for banks. A lower cost of capital gave lenders access to cheap raw material while causing borrowers to clamber for ... Read More
currencies

Surprises in store…

03/02/2016(0)
The month of January has been a wake-up call for complacent equity investors. From the peaks of last year stock indices in the major markets have fallen 10-20%, give ... Read More
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Welcome To The Currency War, Part 21: Japan Goes Negative; US To Return Fire In 2016

01/02/2016(0)
Well that didn’t take long. Two weeks of falling share prices and the European and Japanese central banks caved. First the ECB promised new stimulus — which the markets ... Read More
Entrepreneur

The Need for an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

01/02/2016(0)
I participated recently in an entrepreneurial educational field trip to Athens that is organized by CIIM’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (ENTICE). This is part of a series of educational ... Read More
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The Illusion of Safety: Index Funds Are Not Low-Risk

29/01/2016(0)
If the risk-on euphoria of punters borrowing billions of dollars in margin debt doesn’t materialize, stocks could languish for years after falling 50%. The financial service industry’s Prime Directive ... Read More
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