Is it going to be an another real estate bubble in China after crisis of 2007 in the U.S.?
Feb 26, 2016 13:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
During 2007-09, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury called the bursting housing bubble the most significant risk to our economy. The increasedforeclosure rates in 2006-2007 among U.S. homeowners led to acrisis in August...
Feb 26, 2016 11:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Indian rupee rout has been nonstop and one of the two main underperforming currencies in Asian currencies so far this year.It is the 2nd weakest and down 3.7% vs USD year-to-date, behind KRWs -5.3%.Volatility in rupee...
G20 finance chiefs meet as China seeks to make a show of its presidency
Feb 26, 2016 10:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The last time G20 finance ministers met in China back in 2005, the country was the worlds fifth-largest economy. As the next two-day meeting begins, with China as president, it lies in second spot, having overtaken several...
Maths and science are the keys to unlocking Africa's potential
Feb 26, 2016 05:21 am UTC| Insights & Views
Angelina Lutambi was born into a peasant family in Tanzanias Dodoma region, where HIV/AIDS has decimated much of the population. Her future could easily have been bleak but Angelina had a keen aptitude for maths. She...
When ‘innovation’ fails to fix our finances
Feb 26, 2016 05:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Digital Currency
One of the most unassailable buzzwords of our time is innovation. We are repeatedly told that our economies arent working properly simply because we arent getting enough innovation these days. However, what our singular...
Live and let die: did Michel Foucault predict Europe's refugee crisis?
Feb 26, 2016 05:11 am UTC| Insights & Views
In March 1976, philosopher Michel Foucault described the advent of a new logic of government, specific to Western liberal societies. He called it biopolitics. States were becoming obsessed with the health and wellbeing of...
Defence: more bucks for our bangs
Feb 26, 2016 05:10 am UTC| Insights & Views
To say the defence white paper was much anticipated would be an understatement. Was it worth the wait in the end? That rather depends on who you are and what your assessment of the risks Australia faces actually is. To...
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