Politicians are inflating the evidence used to justify tax increases
Jan 11, 2018 01:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
Chris Doucouliagos, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin Business School and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Many government policies are flawed because...
Jan 10, 2018 12:32 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
NBP held its first rate-setting meeting of the year today: The National Bank of Poland held its reference rate at a record low of 1.5 pct on January 10th, 2018, as widely expected. Also, the Lombard rate and the deposit...
Jan 10, 2018 12:32 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
NBP held its first rate-setting meeting of the year today: The National Bank of Poland held its reference rate at a record low of 1.5 pct on January 10th, 2018, as widely expected. Also, the Lombard rate and the deposit...
Jan 10, 2018 12:20 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The oil performance has been instrumental in boosting the currency in 2017, even though the long-term picture suggests that the currency has overshot the rebound in oil prices. However, the CAD is on the right track to...
FxWirePro: Driving forces, trading and hedging perspectives of NZD/JPY in Q1’2018
Jan 10, 2018 11:44 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views
The Japanese yen once again continues the appreciation trend seen over the past few days. The reason is a recent rise in speculation that the Bank of Japan (BoJ) might tighten its monetary policy this year. This...
Sport and social media's rocky relationship is safe ... for now
Jan 10, 2018 11:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
Sports clubs and players are without doubt the giants of social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube have a mindboggling number of sport followers from around the world. Real Madrid has 106m likes on Facebook...
Jan 10, 2018 10:06 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The South African President Jacob Zuma seems to be on a seesaw succeeding the ANC party conference in December burdens for him to quit or his dismissal from office are getting more and more vociferous. These gossips about...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects