Sunday, September 29, 2019

29/9/19: Divided ECB

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Divided they stand... Source:  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-29/lagarde-inherits-ecb-tinged-by-bitterness-of-draghi-...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

28/9/19: Evidence of Systemic Risk from Major Cybersecurity Breaches

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In our post for Columbia Law School's CLS Blue Sky Blog, myself and Shaen Corbet explain in non-technical terms our ground-breaking fi...
Monday, September 23, 2019

23/9/19: Corporate Finance in a Chart

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The glut of debt and the unbearable lightness of corporate leverage:
Saturday, September 21, 2019

20/9/19: New paper: Systematic risk contagion from cyber events

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Our new paper, "What the hack: Systematic risk contagion from cyber events" is now available at International Review of Financia...
Friday, September 20, 2019

20/9/19: New paper on Cryptos pricing

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Our paper " Fractal dynamics and wavelet analysis: Deep volatility and return properties of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple " is no...
Monday, September 9, 2019

9/9/19: Ireland and OECD: Income Tax Rates Comparatives

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Based on the OECD data for 2018, Ireland is the second worst OECD country to earn income from work at the upper margin of earnings (167% o...
Friday, September 6, 2019

6/9/19: Small Cap Stocks EPS: racing to the bottom of the MAGA barrel

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Everything is going just plain swimmingly in the Land of MAGA, where American companies are now expected to do their duty by President Tru...
Monday, September 2, 2019

2/9/19: Trump's Tariffs of War...

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Two charts summarizing the effects of the ongoing Trump Trade War on U.S. tariffs (overall, first chart) and on bilateral U.S.-China trade...

2/9/19: One view of Austerity

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A picture is worth a thousand words, some say. So here is a picture of austerity we've had (allegedly) in recent decades: Source:...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

1/9/19: U.S. Non-Financial Corporate Sector: Stagnation in Net Value Added

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Value added by the U.S. non-financial corporates has been languishing well below the cyclical peak for some months now: In fact, since...

1/9/19: Priming the Bubble Pump: Extreme Credit Accommodation in the U.S.

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Using Chicago Fed National Financial Conditions Credit Subindex (weekly, not seasonally adjusted data), I have plotted credit conditions m...
Monday, August 26, 2019

26/8/19: ifo Survey Shows Increasing Business Concerns in Germany

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Ifo Institute's Business Climate indicator for Germany is falling off the cliff: In simple terms, current business situation asse...