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Unintended consequences of monetary inflation

15/05/2020(0)
  “In short, the Fed is committed to rescue businesses from the greatest economic catastrophe since the great depression and probably even greater than that, to fund the US ... Read More
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Time to learn about money

14/05/2020(0)
  An unexpected destruction of fiat currency has been advanced by the monetary and fiscal response to the coronavirus. Financial markets have yet to discount the possibility of such ... Read More
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Coronavirus may drive change in precarious employment

12/05/2020(0)
In 2019, 2.3% of employees in the European Union (EU) aged 20-64 had a precarious job, meaning that their work contract did not exceed three months’ duration. The share ... Read More
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Geopolitics post COVID-19

07/05/2020(0)
  Before the coronavirus caused governments to impose lockdowns, whole economies, markets and even currencies were already on course to be destroyed by a vicious downturn in bank lending ... Read More
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What is a negative crude oil price and does it mean anything for consumers?

23/04/2020(0)
The price of a barrel of benchmark US oil plunged below zero dollars a barrel on Monday (April 20) for the first time in history, a troubling sign of ... Read More
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Spain proposes a Fund linked to the European budget as an alternative to coronabonds

22/04/2020(0)
The European Council will discuss the European Recovery Fund at its meeting on Thursday 23 April. If last week France was talking about a fund of 500 billion euros, ... Read More
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What happens when the pandemic ends?

15/04/2020(0)
Let’s assume that by the end of this year a combination of social distancing and some new and effective treatments convert covid-19 from existential threat to chronic nuisance and ... Read More
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Business investment up to 25.8% in the euro area

09/04/2020(0)
In the fourth quarter of 2019, before COVID-19 containment measures began to be widely introduced by Member States, the business investment rate was 25.8% in the euro area, compared ... Read More
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A primer for gold newbies

07/04/2020(0)
  The purpose of this article is purely educational. Increasingly, the wider public is turning to gold in a spontaneous reaction to financial and economic problems that have become ... Read More
data protection

Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection

07/04/2020(0)
Europe’s data protection watchdog has called for a single coronavirus app to be used across the EU, instead of every country making its own. Several countries are developing tracking ... Read More
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