Switzerland is a testing ground for negative interest rates
The epic experiment with negative rates continues to unfold, as central banks are unable to boost consumer inflation with the…
9 years ago
Economics & Markets
War on Terror II: End of Days
Wednesday’s headline in The Sun was a classic: SHOT DOWN…AND WORLD HOLDS BREATH. I love The Sun. For its honesty,…
9 years ago
Stocks Vs Bonds – Which Asset Class is Riskier?
The debate about risk lies too much around CAPM, standard deviation, beta and a few other concepts that are rarely…
9 years ago
War on Terror II
Since the Paris terror attacks of 13 November it is as if we have awoken from an all too peaceful…
9 years ago
Europe Under Siege
The appalling attacks in Paris in the late evening of Friday, 13 November 2015 will linger in the annals of…
9 years ago
What the Terrost Attack Means for EU Economic Policy
The terrorist attacks that occurred last weekend in Paris will certainly be part of our memories for a long time;…
9 years ago
Cheap Money’s Toxic Legacy
The September edition of the Master Investor magazine was largely dedicated to an examination of how likely interest rates were…
9 years ago
Which theory supports central banks?
The equivalent to cheap money is expensive “everything else”. When money is made abundant while the stock of assets is…
9 years ago
405,000 people could open up an Innovative Finance ISA in 2016
By Dom Wolf, Co-founder of investUP – the crowdfunding supermarket Hot of the press research by the Yorkshire Building Society…
9 years ago
The end is nigh for the old order in commodities
Some thought commodity prices were going to rise forever due to the mismatch between supposedly unlimited demand growth from industrialising…
9 years ago