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LONDON – Wars end when the belligerents give up fighting. The surest way for this to happen, and sometimes the least destructive, is through a decisive battle that leads to unconditional surrende

10 января 2020 5 мин. 11056

The Crisis of 2020

NEW HAVEN – Predicting the next crisis – financial or economic – is a fool’s game. Yes, every crisis has its hero who correctly warned of what was about to come. And, by definition, the hero was ignored (hence the crisis). But the record of modern forecasting contains a note of caution: those who correctly predict a crisis rarely get it right again

09 января 2020 5 мин. 8519

The Forbes Investigation: Inside The Secret Bank Behind The Fintech Boom

If you want a glimpse of the future of banking, don’t look to Silicon Valley or Manhattan’s financial district. Instead, drive across the George Washington Bridge to Fort Lee, New Jersey

08 января 2020 11 мин. 18833

Central Asia: Is Now The Time To Invest In Kazakhstan?

Global investors tend to group Kazakhstan along with Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), but its market fundamentals are markedly different and they appear to offer some interesting investment opportunities going into 2020

06 января 2020 6 мин. 11311

Here’s Why Stocks Plunged, Oil Prices Surged After U.S. Airstrike Kills Top Iranian General

While the markets’ usual knee-jerk reactions to geopolitical shocks tend to fade, “this particular development is different than the others,” Adam Crisafulli, founder of Vital Knowledge, said in a note on Friday

05 января 2020 3 мин. 6021

10 Years Of Bitcoin Breakthroughs And Bombshells

If the 1980s marked the rise of personal computing and the 1990s and the 2000s the ascendance of internet connectivity, the 2010s will be known as the decade in which bitcoin and other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies started to change the way the world moves value

31 декабря 2019 4 мин. 18750

Elizabeth Warren’s Bold Ideas Don’t Go Far Enough

CAMBRIDGE – Forget the stock market and the low unemployment rate: the US economy isn’t working. Productivity growth, a key gauge of economic health, remains historically low. Median wages, an indicator of middle-class living standards, have barely grown in four decades. Inequality is high, and market power is increasingly concentrated in the hands of just a few companies. Americans used to dismiss Europe as the land of government-protected, noncompetitive firms. Now, European markets in most industries appear more competitive than those in the United States

30 декабря 2019 6 мин. 9591

Bezos, Buffett, Ma And More: Biggest Billionaire Gainers Of The Decade

Gleaned from the pages of a book purchased by accident at the University of Nebraska, Warren Buffett's investment philosophy–buy and hold stocks forever–has proven to be one of the best-performing strategies of all time. It has also paid off particularly well this past decade