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The Fragmentation of Bretton Woods

18/08/2014(0)
The world has changed considerably since political leaders from the 44 Allied countries met in 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to create the institutional framework for the post-World ... Read More
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Being Pro-West Doesn’t Mean Being Anti-Russian

13/08/2014(0)
The recent events in Ukraine and the resulting wave of sanctions, affecting all sides of the conflict, have once again intensified the long-running disagreement in Russia between pro-West and ... Read More
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Coutts’ sale shows the politics of banking – Bottom Line

12/08/2014(0)
The biggest surprise about RBS considering selling the international units of its private bank Coutts is that it has not already flogged them. Since the crash and subsequent bailout, ... Read More
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The Tricks of China’s Trade

11/08/2014(0)
Last year, China ostensibly reached another milestone in its meteoric rise, surpassing the United States to become the world’s largest trading country, with its total trade turnover valued at ... Read More
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The Global Economy’s Groundhog Day

08/08/2014(0)
In the movie “Groundhog Day,” a television weatherman, played by Bill Murray, awakes every morning at 6:00 to relive the same day. A similar sense of déjà vu has ... Read More
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Are banks looking at a shrunken future?

07/08/2014(0)
Amid the hundreds of billions of bad-credit write-downs and the multibillion- dollar settlements with government watchdogs since the 2008 financial collapse, it’s easy to lose sight of what good ... Read More
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Banks Must Show They Can Die Quietly

06/08/2014(0)
The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have just confirmed what most people already knew: The largest banks are far too complex and opaque for their ... Read More
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Tax Inversion: What’s the Real Story?

05/08/2014(0)
Tax inversion is turning the country inside out. Although the rhetoric flying back and forth is complex, the basic premise is actually quite simple: Multi-national corporations that are reaping ... Read More
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Clashes with Russia point to globalization’s end

04/08/2014(0)
As the European Union and the United States ramp up their sanctions on Russia, President Vladimir Putin’s plans for retaliation seem to include an attack on McDonald’s. There could ... Read More
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Can Investment Save Europe?

01/08/2014(0)
Economic growth in Europe remains disappointing. Virtually all European Union members are expected to post higher output in 2014; but, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest projections, the ... Read More
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