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The mood among UK business leaders has hit its highest level for a year, with a small majority believing that the bottom of the business cycle has been …
The Renegade Economist has been sent some of the data behind the MP’s expenses row.
Here is the spreadsheet for the 2007/8 claims - interesting reading.
No-one at Renegade Economist HQ realised that it was so expensive to live …
In all the newspaper articles, in all the radio programmes and TV shows now exposing our MP’s expenses, and previously, our failed bankers’ bonuses, two core issues have been strikingly missed. One is to question …
A trillion-dollar storm is gathering over the commercial real estate landscape that’s threatening to add further pain to an already bruised US economy.
The commercial debt securitization market is dead and the outcome looks stark for …
Sit back and listen to The Renegade Economist bring sense the the economic situation we are in today. In this instalment we look at how we got here…
The collapse of the Western financial sector was just what the doctor ordered, for the bankers. They had reached the point where they needed a cathartic clean-out. Their bloated excesses couldn’t go on, so a …
Tony Beckwith, a Renegade Economist, reader sent us a link today and we were so shocked by the absolute inability of someone who is one of the most powerful people in US banking to explain …
In 1997 Fred Harrison wrote to Tony Blair and his Ministers: “I am your worst nightmare. I know exactly why New Labour will fail”. For ten years Harrison identified for Gordon Brown the policies that …
The document that spelt out the mechanism that would drive the global economy into depression was published in 1997. The land-led property boom was globally synchronised, so every economy in the world was heading for …
The International Monetary Fund has warned of “worrisome parallels” between the current global crisis and the Great Depression, despite the unprecedented steps already taken by central banks and governments worldwide.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/5166956/IMF-warns-over-parallels-to-Great-Depression.html
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“Should a systemic regulator see a rapid rise in asset prices, Rosengren said, it would first investigate the cause, whether the increase was boosted by leverage and whether mismatches in funding long-term assets with short-term …
The economic crisis has focussed many minds on immediate survival, ranging from individuals coping with redundancy, to governments propping up failed banks and car manufacturers. In a crisis humans tend to panic and regress into old thought patterns and old habits at the very time that long term whole system vision and breaking the mould is crucial. Short term remedies may provide temporary relief, but will only lead to greater repeat crises later for they just perpetuate the circumstances that created the problem in the first place.
Foxtons, the now cash-strapped estate agency that came to epitomise the London housing boom, is in talks with banks about …
The Renegade Economist team presents an opportunity to learn what’s about to happen in the domestic and global economy, and …
