Saturday, June 30, 2018

30/6/18: U.S. incarceration statistics and American Exceptionalism

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The U.S. figures prominently in the world of horrific stats, as do many other countries. Perhaps the most significant difference between t...
Friday, June 29, 2018

29/6/18: Multilateralism and the Impossible Policy Trilemmas

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"Global governance requires rules, because flexibility and goodwill alone cannot tackle the hardest shared problems. With multilatera...

29/6/18: Can, Foot, Road: EU 'Agreement' on Migration Crisis

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The EU27 have a new 'deal'. This time, on revamping the block's migration strategies in the face of continued relentless wave ...

29/6/18: Debt Bubble: Staying the Course into Hurricane

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In three and a half years, the world debt has gone from being a worry to a bubble. At the end of 2014, there were just under $44 trillion ...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

27/6/18: U.S. War on Drugs: The Unwanted Dividends

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While the U.S. war in Afghanistan drags closer to marking 17th anniversary, and the U.S. war on drugs in Latin America rages into its four...
Monday, June 25, 2018

25/6/18: Wilbur Ross: The MAGAlithic Cat Fish of Washington's Swamps?

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The 'hero' of the Irish banking sector bailouts, Wilbur Ross, formerly of Bank of Ireland and Bank of Cyprus fame, a dude who woul...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

22/6/18: 'Skeptical' IMF tends to be over-optimistic in its U.S. growth forecasts

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In recent weeks, the IMF came under some criticism for posting relatively gloomy forecasts for the U.S. economy, especially considering th...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

21/6/18: Weaker growth signals for the euro area

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I have not updated Eurocoin dynamics and euro area growth forecasts for some time now, so here is the latests, from May data: Eurocoin,...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

20/6/18: Irish Labour Force Participation Rate: Persistency of a Problem

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With the latest CSO data reporting on labour force participation figures for 1Q 2018, time to update the chart showing secular decline in ...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

17/6/18: ECB's Shift of Gears Presents Another Set of Risks

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My article for Business Post from Friday covering ECB's latest announcements on QE and interest rates:  https://www.businesspost.ie/op...
Friday, June 15, 2018

15/6/18: "Ripples in the Crypto World" - Our New Article on Systemic Risks in Cryptocurrencies

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Our new article on dynamic properties and systemic risks of key cryptocurrencies is available at: Gurdgiev, Constantin and Corbet, Shaen...

15/6/18: Italian High Yield Bonds and Markets Exuberance

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Nothing illustrates the state of asset valuations today better than the junk bonds tale from Italy. Here is a prime example from the Fitch...