What would Mark Twain think of Donald Trump?
Mar 03, 2017 06:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Thanks to the criticisms theyve leveled in articles, interviews, tweets and letters to the editor, we know that many contemporary authors, from Philip Roth to J.K. Rowling, have a dim view of Donald J. Trump. But what...
Mar 03, 2017 05:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
An edited transcript of the keynote address delivered by Jeffrey Bleich at Universities Australias higher education conference in Canberra on 1 March, 2017. You can also listen to the full speech here: Jeffrey...
Can the government save money by privatizing prisons, Medicare and other functions?
Mar 03, 2017 02:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Should we run the government like a business? Donald Trump seems to think so. During his campaign for president, Trump returned again and again to his supposed success as a businessman and promised government programs...
Eurozone inflation hits 2 pct in Feb, likely to intensify debate surrounding ECB's QE exit
Mar 02, 2017 12:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Eurozone inflation has risen above the European Central Banks (ECB) target rate for the first time in four years, data from statistical agency Eurostat showed on Thursday. Inflation in the 19-nation bloc hit 2 percent in...
FxWirePro: Driving forces of CHF’s bullish and bearish scenarios
Mar 02, 2017 11:26 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
EURCHF is so far tracking our forecast which assumes a softening in the SNBs intervention regime and a resultant orderly decline of around one cent per quarter in the cross to 1.03 by year-end. The SNB is certainly not...
FxWirePro: SNB loosen the leash on Swiss franc
Mar 02, 2017 10:05 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
Various factors are responsible for the shift in the SNBs FX stance, we believe: 1) Economic performance is satisfactory and inflation continues to normalize (the rate of CPI inflation has increased by 1.5% from 2015...
How microfinance reduces gender inequality in developing countries
Mar 02, 2017 09:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
An increase in the proportion of women accessing microfinance services by just 15% could potentially reduce gender inequality, as measured by the Gender Inequality Index, by half in the average developing nation. The...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects