Tuesday, April 27, 2021

26/4/21: What Low Corporate Insolvencies Figures Aren't Telling Us

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  One of the key features of the Covid19 pandemic to-date has been a relatively low level of corporate insolvencies. In fact, if anything, w...
Monday, April 26, 2021

25/4/21: Impact of foreign shareholders on the performance of the Chinese banks

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 A new paper (pre-print version): Gurdgiev, Constantin, and Jiagi, Li, The Journey of a thousand miles: a decade of impact of foreign shareh...

25/4/21: Impact Finance perspective of the systemic threats to blockchain applications

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  New paper (pre-print version):  Gurdgiev, Constantin and Fleming, Adam, Informational efficiency and cybersecurity threats: A Social Impac...
Friday, April 23, 2021

23/4/21: There are no 'social' winners amidst this pandemic

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  No one is left unscarred by the #covid19 pandemic when it comes to public approval trends for the major social stakeholders in Ireland:  S...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

22/4/21: Pew Research on Public Support for Economic Reforms in the US, UK, France and Germany

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  Here's an interesting insight from Pew Research surveys: Set aside France results. Look at the U.S. and UK: 50-51 percent of the count...
Monday, April 19, 2021

19/4/21: COVID19: BRIICS

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BRIICS are now in a fully-developed Wave 4 of the pandemic, like much of the rest of the world. This is confirmed across both new case numbe...

19/4/21: COVID19: Most impacted countries

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  Updated tables for world's most impacted countries and regions below. Starting with the countries with the highest recognized levels o...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

17/4/21: COVID19: Europe and EU27

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  Looking at Europe and EU27 data for Covid19 pandemic through Week 14 of 2021 (week ending Thursday, April 15): Since Week 7, the EU27 are ...

17/4/21: COVID19: Worldwide Data

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  Despite the ongoing efforts to accelerate vaccinations, we can now, sadly, confirm that globally, we are in the fourth wave of the pandemi...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

17/4/21: Collapsing Labor Force Participation: A Secular Trend

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  For those of you following this blog this would be a familiar sight: I have been worrying about the underlying structure of the U.S. labor...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

14/4/21: The share of those in unemployment > 27 weeks is rising

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  One way to look at the state of the real (as opposed to financialized and corporate-value focused) economy is to look at unemployment. And...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

8/4/21: BRIC Composite PMIs 1Q 2021: A Mixed Bag for Recovery Votes

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  I covered BRIC Manufacturing PMIs for 1Q 2021 ( https://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2021/04/5421-brics-manufacturing-pmis-1q-2021.html ) an...