Wall Street opposed the anti-LGBT #HB2. Will they oppose bigotry in the White House?

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AFR in Bull Market

Sep 6, 2016

Dangerous Bill to Deregulate Private Equity Could Enable New Fraud

Duncan Weldon in Bull Market

Jul 28, 2016

Whatever happened to deficit bias?

Deficit bias: The tendency of governments to allow deficit and public debt levels to increase. Irish Fiscal Council Glossary.

Yesterday I wrote that the UK would be better advised to launch a conventional fiscal stimulus than to rely on…

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Duncan Weldon in Bull Market

Jul 27, 2016

UK helicopter money: a solution in search of a problem

Talk of UK helicopter money is whirring up again. I can’t really see why.

Sure, there’s a case — in extremis — for a central bank to create money and either buy and cancel government debt (effectively financing…

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AFR in Bull Market

Jun 16, 2016

The best-paid hedge fund managers made $13 billion last year

That’s enough to end family homelessness in America

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Duncan Weldon in Bull Market

Jun 13, 2016

Globalisation is fraying. Look under the Elephant Trunk

Globalisation is fraying. Of course in some ways it looks to be in rude health — flows of people across borders continue to rise and the internet is driving ever higher flows of information. But some of the core beliefs that many…

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Duncan Weldon in Bull Market

May 27, 2016

The IMF, the neoliberal agenda and the world we’ve built

The IMF is questioning elements of the “neoliberal agenda”. As a headline that’s big news and the article that appeared on the Fund’s website yesterday evening is well worth taking the time to read.

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AFR in Bull Market

May 18, 2016

House Subcommittee Considers Bill to Shred the SEC’s Tires

The many problems with the Investment Advisers Modernization Act

Jawwad Ahmed Farid in Bull Market

Apr 9, 2016

Is Doha driving oil prices higher?

Is the oil output freeze meeting in Doha the reason behind the jump up in crude prices? Is the market pricing a deal? Or is there an alternate thesis.

On Sunday April 17th, over a dozen key oil producers, OPEC members and non-members, will…

Duncan Weldon in Bull Market

Mar 28, 2016

Labour Bargaining Power and the Luddite Fear

Technological change is as old as history.

In fact, in the broadest of sweeps, the economic history of mankind is a story of technological change, rising productivity and rising living standards.

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