Five reasons why your city won't want to host the Olympic Games
Jan 11, 2016 13:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
The prospect of hosting any mega-event especially the Olympic Games is cause for serious consideration. At local, national, and international levels, the discussion takes shape around two key questions: is it worth it?...
PBoC will likely further stabilize CNY fixings in the coming weeks
Jan 11, 2016 12:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
EM local markets, especially currencies, as well as EM credit spreads are under pressure following renewed volatility in China and escalation of tensions in the Middle East. Almost all EM currencies are falling...
Hard Evidence: this is the Age of Dissent – and there's much more to come
Jan 11, 2016 06:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The year 2011 is widely viewed as the peak of protest and dissent in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the austerity agenda that followed it. It was the year of the Arab Spring, Occupy, UK Uncut, indignados, urban...
South Africa and China: behind the smoke and mirrors
Jan 11, 2016 04:40 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Peoples Republic of Chinas relationship with South Africa has deepened significantly in recent years, as shown by a raft of economic and political proclamations. The year 2014 was dubbed the year of South Africa in...
Militant suffragettes: morally justified, or just terrorists?
Jan 11, 2016 04:16 am UTC| Insights & Views
Between 1912 and 1914, a group of British suffragettes called the Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU) launched a campaign of militant action. Lead by Emmeline Pankhurst, they avoided harming people but committed...
Why Uber's surge pricing is naive economics
Jan 11, 2016 00:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Economists love Ubers surge pricing. But it is doomed, because customers hate it. Why? Surge pricing occurs when the supply and demand for Uber vehicles becomes unbalanced, for example, due to inclement weather, a...
China's currency plan still on track, despite global market volatility
Jan 11, 2016 00:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
The recent equity market volatility in China is unlikely to derail plans for the internationalisation of the Renminbi (RMB). Why? Because China is too far down the track, most of the changes needed are for domestic...
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