Filipe R Costa

You Got (Almost) Everything Wrong About Our Economy, Mr Krugman

I wish our economy could be illustrated in a simple mathematical model where the increase in GDP would be a…

Fund Manager in Focus – Paul Singer

As featured in this month’s Master Investor Magazine. “We like to create value rather than merely identify it…if we just…

Are Litigation Finance Investments the Ultimate Diversification Tool?

As featured in this month’s Master Investor Magazine. “To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities…

When Will The Fed Hike Rates?

We live in strange times in terms of economic reasoning and thinking. One Nobel laureate economist believes that saving is…

Is Gold a Good Insurance Asset?

Unlike the foreign exchange markets, where traders expect their bets to move vividly when the Fed puts an extra comma…

Do Not Take A Grexit Lightly

After a roller coaster weekend in EU politics, financial markets opened Monday with increased volatility but in certain ways disregarded…

Sweden is Heading Towards Disaster

Following the Leader It is always entertaining to listen to European officials speaking in a placid tone as if everything…

BIS Warns on Global Distortions

Painkillers can help you dull the pain when recovering from an unhealthy condition to a healthy one. But when you…

Brexit is Already Hurting the UK

“I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and…

Deflation? What deflation?

Central banks have a long track record of failure when it comes to stabilising the price of money. Many decades…