Worrisome Signs Series: US recession 100 basis points away?
Feb 12, 2016 12:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Yes you are reading it right. US treasury market, which has been a successful predictor of US recession in the past is just shy of 100 basis points from indicating a recession. Since 2014, due to lower oil price and...
Feb 12, 2016 11:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
European banks credit and equity are at levels not seen since 2012-13. The 2008-09 financial crisis and the negative impact on the banking sector has created a significant level of non-performing assets. Despite provisions...
The global bike sharing boom – why cities love a cycling scheme
Feb 12, 2016 09:35 am UTC| Insights & Views
As urbanisation and modernisation reach unprecedented levels, road congestion has become a modern day menace. Heavy traffic is associated with air pollution, safety risks, and losses in terms of accessibility, economic...
Why Digital India took on Facebook and won
Feb 12, 2016 07:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
This week marked a significant event in the life of Digital India, in a country that is home to more than 400 million internet users. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) passed a regulation prohibiting...
Vital Signs: economy in a holding pattern
Feb 11, 2016 19:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting...
What's needed to help mining minnows get off the ground in Africa
Feb 11, 2016 15:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Malawi has aspirations to increase mining contributions to GDP from 1% to 20% by 2020. But community-company relations in the mining sector are typical of those across the continent: not good. This, in turn, is not good...
Google deal: in defence of the taxman
Feb 11, 2016 13:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Google came under a barrage of criticism for paying less than its fair share of tax and HMRC has been accused of being soft or incompetent for the sweetheart deal it negotiated. Publicly available information is not...
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’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects