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Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)

30/11/2015(0)
In the aftermath of the Cyprus economic crisis, one sector that has been suffering for some time now is the real estate and construction industry. One could argue though ... Read More
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Chinese Debt Snowball Gaining Momentum

30/11/2015(0)
Financial crises can happen quickly, like the bursting of the tech stock bubble in early 2000, or slowly, like the late-1980s junk bond bust. The shape of the crash ... Read More
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Welcome To The Currency War, Part 20: Corporate Profits Head South, Stock Prices To Follow?

26/11/2015(0)
  A too-strong currency is, in theory, supposed to make it harder to sell things to cheap-currency countries, thus crimping corporate profits and by implication pretty much everything else. ... Read More
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The U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To Make It Worse

24/11/2015(0)
The 7th largest economy on the entire planet, Brazil, has been gripped by a horrifying recession, as has much of the rest of South America. But it isn’t just ... Read More
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The Treasury Market Sees A Rate Hike Next Month… Maybe

24/11/2015(0)
Fed Chair Janet Yellen yesterday reaffirmed the case for keeping interest rates near zero percent and raising rates slowly in the future. But the Treasury market seemed to have ... Read More
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Is This How the Next Global Financial Meltdown Will Unfold?

23/11/2015(0)
In effect, a currency crisis is simply the abrupt revaluation of the currency to reflect new realities. I have long maintained that the structural imbalances of debt and risk ... Read More
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Is Anybody Okay Out There?

20/11/2015(0)
In normal times, the world’s major economies are a mixed bag. Some are up, some are down, some are placid, some are in crisis. It’s only at the boom/bust ... Read More
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Advice to the Prime Minister/President

19/11/2015(0)
Your country faces a stagnating economy. Let us assume your Prime Minister (or President if that is who holds the executive power) seeks advice from two imaginary economists. PM: ... Read More
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Ominous Parallels: The Roman Empire, The European Union, And Mass Migration

18/11/2015(0)
This weekend’s Paris attacks, occurring in the middle of one of history’s largest mass-migrations, has the feel of uncharted territory. But it’s actually an eerie echo of something that ... Read More
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The declining interest rate cap

17/11/2015(0)
Believe it or not, one of the topics in economics that confuses macroeconomists is the actual role of interest rates. For the most part they just assume that an ... Read More
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