Filipe R Costa

Income Redistribution: A Side Effect of Monetary Policy

The other day I came across a very interesting and challenging research paper about the degree of investor sophistication and…

Warning Bells Are Ringing

If you believe the last summer was tough to invest in the equities market, then just wait for the rest…

The Battle Between CPI and PCE

Central banks have been so fixated on fighting inflation that they have killed it completely. Now they have the reverse…

Bill Gross Vs the FED

Bill Gross from Janus Capital (ex:PIMCO) has heavily criticised central banks for failing to foresee the consequences of conducting a…

FED’s Next Move… Negative Rates?

Is there anybody who still believes the FED will hike rates this year…? The next? With the latest developments in…

BoE Concerned with China

The last time the BoE moved its key interest rate was in March 2009, when the financial crisis was at…

Canada is heading for a hard landing

“Back in the old days, a collapse in mining meant that brokers, promoters, and mining entrepreneurs – not to mention…

Fund Manager in Focus – Leon Cooperman

“The way to be successful is do what you love and love what you do…I get paid normally a lot…

Draghi still has ammunition in his bazooka

Earlier in the year the ECB announced its own asset purchase programme to reflate the Eurozone economy. Investors received the…

Central Banks Have Lost the Inflation Link

For the last three decades, central banks have been concentrating their efforts on fighting two gaps - the output gap…