How to talk climate change across the aisle: Focus on adaptive solutions rather than causes
Mar 02, 2017 03:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Conversations about climate change often derail into arguments about whether global warming exists, whether climate change is already happening, the extent to which human activity is a cause and which beliefs are based in...
The truth about Obama's economic legacy and Trump's inheritance
Mar 02, 2017 03:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
President Donald Trump has been trashing the economy and his predecessors legacy lately. For example, in his free-wheeling Feb. 16 press conference, Trump said he inherited a mess from President Barack Obama. His newly...
Matteo Renzi just killed off Italy's centre left
Mar 02, 2017 02:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Former prime minister Matteo Renzi has resigned as leader of the Italian Democratic Party (PD) in a move that leaves the countrys centre left in ruins. His party is now split, which gives the far right an opportunity to...
How Liverpool's new local currency fits into global trends of money and power
Mar 02, 2017 02:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The tensions between Iran and the United States are being played out on multiple fronts. One of the less frightening is perhaps Irans abandonment of the dollar in its financial reporting. But it is also eerily similar to...
Brave New World: the pill-popping, social media obsessed dystopia we live in
Mar 02, 2017 02:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The Orwellian dystopia of Doublespeak is very much in vogue right now thanks to concerns over Trumps use of alternative facts. But alternative facts are just the tip of a dystopian iceberg that owes more to the soft...
FxWirePro: Trading run through on inflation-linked swaps, USD CCY swaps, and swaptions
Mar 01, 2017 11:55 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
Though Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said this week that he is seriously considering 50-or 100-year debt, we continue to think the scope for adding either maturity point is limited. While internationally, the outcome...
Bank Indonesia likely to maintain neutral stance despite surge in inflation
Mar 01, 2017 10:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Indonesias annual inflation rate increased in February, data from the statistics bureau showed on Wednesday. Indonesias February annual headline inflation climbed 3.83 percent compared with Januarys 3.49 percent. The rise...
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