Friday, May 25, 2018

25/5/18: The Wondrous World of Cryptos Fraud: Profitable and Growing

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One of the key promises of cryptocurrencies to their 'users'/'investors'/'gamblers' has been that of security of d...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

24/5/18: America, the Medici Cycle and the Corporate Powers in Politics

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A recent paper by Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago, titled "Towards a Political Theory of the Firm" (NBER Working Pap...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

23/5/18: Contingent Workforce, Online Labour Markets and Monopsony Power

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The promise of the contingent workforce and technological enablement of ‘shared economy’ is that today’s contingent workers and workers us...

23/5/18: American Exceptionalism, Liberty and... Amazon

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" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! " The premise o...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

22/5/18: Poor Showing by the U.S. Cities

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Mercer 2018 Quality of Living rankings are out:  https://mobilityexchange.mercer.com/Portals/0/Content/Rankings/rankings/qol2018i321456/in...
Monday, May 21, 2018

21/5/18: Truth Decay and Fake News: Four Links

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Some useful links on recent research  concerning the relationship between empirical/factual evidence, newsflows and policy discourse in th...

21/5/18: Italian Sovereign Risks Are Blowing Up

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As I noted in my comment to ECR / Euromoney  and in my article for Sunday Business Post (see links here: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.com...

21/5/18: Risk experts take flight over Italy's political risk

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Euromoney and ECR are covering the story of Italian political risk, with my comments on the rise of populism in Italy and its effects on...

21/5/28: Trouble is brewing in the Euro paradise

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My article for the Sunday Business Post  on the continued risk/VUCA from politics of populism to the Euro area reforms and stability:  htt...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

19/5/18: Leverage risk in investment markets is now systemic

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Net margin debt is a measure of leverage investors carry in their markets exposures, or, put differently, the level of debt accumulated on...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

19/5/18: The Scary Inefficiency & Environmental Costs of Bitcoin

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Bitcoin is just one of the cryptocurrencies, albeit the dominant one by market capitalisation and mining assets deployment. The cryptocurr...
Friday, May 18, 2018

18/5/18: Euro area current accounts 1980-2017

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What happened to the Euro area current accounts since the introduction of the Euro? Periodically, I update my charts on the Euro effects...