Saturday, October 28, 2017

28/10/17: Trade vs Growth or Trade & Growth?

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Much has been written down recently about the dramatic slowdown in growth in global trade flows. For example, after rebounding post-Global...

28/10/17: Supplies of Monetary Methadone: ECB's Recalibration

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My take on ECB's latest policy announcements for the Sunday Business Post :  https://www.businesspost.ie/opinion/supplies-monetary-met...

28/10/17: Income Inequality: Millennials vs Baby Boomers

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OECD's recent report, "Preventing Ageing Unequally", has a wealth of data and analysis relating to old-age poverty and demog...
Monday, October 23, 2017

22/10/17: Italian North: another chip off Europe's Nirvana

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Having just written about the Czech electoral pivot toward populism last night, today brings yet another  news headline from the politica...

22/10/17: Robot builders future: It's all a game of Go...

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This, perhaps, is the most important development in the AI (Artificial Intelligence) to-date: "DeepMind’s new self-taught Go-playing ...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

22/10/17: Framing Effects and S&P500 Performance

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A great post highlighting the impact of framing on our perception of reality:  https://fat-pitch.blogspot.com/2017/10/using-time-scaling-a...

22/10/17: Leverage risk and CAPE: Why Rob Shiller Might Be Wrong

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Rob Shiller recently waxed lyrical about the fact that - by his own metrics - the markets are overpriced, yet no crash is coming because t...

22/10/17: Oh my... Germany Looks Like Japan ca 2000-2001?

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A pic worth a 1,000 words: Via Holger Zschaepitz @Schuldensuehner In simple terms, despite its current fortunes, on the longer time...

21/10/17: Prague Pages Brussels... Following Vienna

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Just after Austria , the Czech Republic too has swung decisively in the direction of embracing populism as Populist billionaire's Euro...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

20/10/17: Lancet Report on Impact of Pollution

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A top-level, comprehensive report compiled by the Lancet Commission  details estimates of economic and human costs of pollution worldwide....
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

17/10/17: Intel Opens the Era of Unemployed Insurance Brokers...

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If you have a job structuring and selling, marketing and monitoring/managing car insurance contracts, you should stop reading this now... ...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

17/10/17: ECB Boldly Goes Where It Was Going Before

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'News' have become quite volatile to the upside these days... you hit a "Publish" button on one blog post dealing with Q...