Subprime gets bad rap in 'Big Short' but is key to easing affordability crisis
Feb 26, 2016 05:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Anyone whos dug into the 2008 financial crisis knows the role that bundling and selling subprime housing loans played in bringing the world to the brink of economic collapse out-of-control behaviors well-depicted in the...
Crisis or opportunity? How European countries use refugees for political gain
Feb 26, 2016 04:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
After no fewer than five emergency summits, a solution to Europes refugee crisis remains elusive. The list of failures is long and growing including the failure to deliver hotspots, reception centres meant to process...
Explainer: what's at stake in Iran's parliamentary elections
Feb 26, 2016 04:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Iranians will vote on February 26 to elect both the 290-seat parliament and the 88 clerics of the Assembly of Experts, the body that chooses the supreme leader. This is the most important political moment for the Islamic...
Consultancy model shows how micro and small firms can be grown in Africa
Feb 26, 2016 04:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
I was recently in Malawi, a landlocked and poor but beautiful African country, where I visited Grow, an NGO focused on growing micro and small businesses. Grow movement was founded in 2009 to assist micro and small...
Is the ‘R’ in RIA soon to be ‘Robo’?
Feb 26, 2016 02:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
If only the spreadsheets, graphs and strategic analysis that look so great on paper could identify and create great investment portfolios. Wed all be advisors, or rich. And wed be seeing RIA businesses morphing into...
Fossil fuel growth centre harks back to old ideas about climate costs
Feb 26, 2016 02:44 am UTC| Insights & Views
On Wednesday, the minister for industry, innovation and science, Christopher Pyne, launched a new growth centre for Australias fossil fuel industry (and uranium), to be known as National Energy Resources Australia. The...
What California can learn from Australia’s 15-year millennium drought
Feb 26, 2016 00:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
California has experienced, over the past few years, its most severe drought on record. In response to worsening conditions, Governor Jerry Brown announced the first ever statewide mandatory reduction in urban water use in...
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