Our new article on dynamic properties and systemic risks of key cryptocurrencies is available at:Gurdgiev, Constantin and Corbet, Shaen, Ripples in the Crypto World: Systemic Risks in Crypto-Currency Markets (June 15, 2018). International Banker, June …
I just posted on @twitter a short thread concerning the U.S.-EU trade and payments balances from 2003 through 2017 and a trend-based forecast for same out to 2021. The thread can be accessed here: https://twitter.com/GTCost/status/1005467563034152…
I have recently written about rising firm power in labour markets, driven by monopsonisation of the markets thanks to the continued development of the contingent workforce: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/05/23518-contingent-workforce-onlin…
Cyclicality in markets returns and political environment is an interesting and under-researched topic. Here is a great post on the subject: https://fat-pitch.blogspot.com/2018/05/trading-worst-6-months-and-presidential.html.
In my previous post, I talked about the Too-Big-To-Fail Euro state, #Italy – a country with massive debt baggage that is systemic in nature.Here is Project Syndicate view from Carmen Reinhart: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ital…
My article on Italian (and Spanish and Dutsche Bank) mess in Sunday Business Post: https://www.businesspost.ie/business/italys-problem-europes-problem-417945.Unedited version of the article here:This fortnight has been a real roller-coaster for th…
One of the key promises of cryptocurrencies to their ‘users’/’investors’/’gamblers’ has been that of security of data stored on cryptos-backed blockchains and crypto ‘assets’ held by their owners. Yet, scandal after scandal, the myth has been deflated …
Market concentration can easily lead to a “Medici vicious circle,” where money is used to get political power and political power is used to make money.”
The promise of the contingent workforce and technological enablement of ‘shared economy’ is that today’s contingent workers and workers using own capital to supply services are free agents, at liberty to demand their own pay, work time, working conditi…
“And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”The premise of the American Exceptionalism rests on the hypothesis of the State based on the principles of liberty.Enter Amazon, a corporation ever …