Tuesday, December 5, 2017

4/12/17: The Other Hockey Stick (not Bitcoin)

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Financialization of the global economy is now complete, thanks to the world's hyperactive Central Banks and the age of riskless reckle...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

3/12/17: Russian and BRICS debt dynamics since 2012

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Back in 2014, Russia entered a period of recessionary economic dynamics, coupled with the diminishing access to foreign debt markets. Ever...
Saturday, December 2, 2017

2/12/17: Bitcoin Craze Heads for the Moon

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Just about 10 days ago, I wrote about the Bitcoin being a bubble. And since then, few things happened: The bubble has now gone into pub...
Friday, December 1, 2017

1/12/17: Euro - Unfit for Diverging Economies

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An interesting chart from Bloomberg on intra-EU productivity divisions: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/eu-s-productivi...

1/12/17: Eonia's strange vaulting

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What concentration risk and liquidity risk can do to you when both combine? Eonia (Euro OverNight Index Average) is the 1-day interba...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

30/11/17: Efficiency of Enforcement vs Volume of Regulation

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Yesterday, in our class on Economics, we talked about the distinction between regulation (volume of rules) and efficient enforcement (moni...

29/11/17: Four Omens of an Incoming Markets Blowout

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Forget Bitcoin (for a second) and look at the real markets. Per Goldman Sachs research, current markets valuation for bonds and stocks a...

29/11/17: China vs U.S. - the WTO Fight

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Per latest reports, there is a renewed spat between the U.S. and China in the WTO. As reported in the FT ( https://www.ft.com/content/f794...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

28/11/17: Price vs value: economics of art

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From time to time, I have been posting on the blog links to articles on economics of art. Here is the latest one that caught my eye: The e...

28/11/17: Hacking the market: Systemic contagion from cybersecurity breaches

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Our article for LSE Business Review is now live on the site:  http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2017/11/28/hacking-the-market-systemic...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

26/11/17: FAANGS+ Brewing up another markets storm

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One of the key signals of a systemic mispricing of financial assets is concentration risk. I wrote about this in a number of posts on the ...
Friday, November 24, 2017

24/11/17: Learning from the GFC: Lessons for Investors

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My article, summing up the key lessons from the Global Financial Crisis that investors should review before the next crisis hits is now av...