How the great phosphorus shortage could leave us all without food
Feb 11, 2016 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Marissa de Boer, Researcher VU Amsterdam, Project Manager SusPhos , VU University Amsterdam You know that greenhouse gases are changing the climate. You probably know drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce, and...
Feb 11, 2016 13:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views
MXN should decouple from the rest of the region from Q1 assuming growth is strong enough to allow Banxico to tighten credibly alongside the Fed. ARS will almost certainly be devalued under the incoming Macri...
Why free education is a folly in an unequal society
Feb 11, 2016 13:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The idea of free higher public education, or what student activists have termed #FeesMustFall, is appealing. It is also, however, inherently regressive in societies and countries where massive social and economic...
Treasury modelling shows no growth lift from GST tax mix switch
Feb 11, 2016 13:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The government has released Treasury modelling showing a tax mix switch with a 15% GST and income tax cuts would deliver no gains to economic growth. The modelling has been put out to back up Prime Minister Malcolm...
Russia and Iran are fighting together – but are they as close as it seems?
Feb 11, 2016 13:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views
After years of isolation, Iran is slowly coming back in from the cold after the deal to curb its nuclear programme. And as it starts to reassert itself more openly in the world order, its rekindling a stormy affair with an...
UK housing costliest ever, seems like bubble bursting
Feb 11, 2016 11:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Housing Starts in the United Kingdom increased to 36530 in the third quarter of 2015 from 35960 in the second quarter of 2015. While construction PMI came in at 55 in January of 2016, down from 57.8 in the previous...
Gold edging higher despite ETF's outflow after Yellen's dovish testimony
Feb 11, 2016 09:02 am UTC| Insights & Views
Yesterday, Fed Chair Yellens testimony before the banking committee of the US Senate would take place this afternoon, though we do not expect this to yield anything new about the US monetary policy as she referred the...
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