The record level of the price-to-earnings ratio for equities is increasingly worrying. But how do we determine whether the price of a stock – or an exchange – is valued at its fair price or overvalued?
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Interest among financial institutions in bitcoin derivatives contracts highlights worrying reminders of the not-too-distant past.
Brexit, bots and jobs and bitcoin are set to dominate economics news in 2018.
Business Briefing: What happened to the price of Bitcoin? The truth behind big bubbles and crashes
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On this episode of Business Briefing we unpack great heights and crashing lows of a bubble and a crash.
Low wage growth isn’t just bad for households - it’s also bad for the overall economy. Research shows that increasing wages would take some of the risk out of the housing sector.
How can we sort out the crisis of contemporary democracy?
The sub-imperial formation called BRICS, which pretends to be a progressive global force could be divided by a series of crises.
Republicans are hoping to eliminate or at least defang the only federal agency tasked solely with protecting consumers from financial abuses. What would we miss if they succeed?
Why does the Chair of the Federal Reserve believe there won’t be another financial crisis in our lifetimes?
Instead, we need to burn the entire system of financial regulation to the ground and replace it with something that supports investing the way it’s done today.
The Chinese government is doing its best to stop China’s bad loan problem from blowing up.
Before the financial crisis struck, you could breathe the overwhelming air of prosperity on the bustling streets of Trikala.
The world needs an alternative system, measuring economic value in face of the dissatisfaction that brought Donald Trump to the White House.
The BRICS bloc of states have resolved to establish an alternative credit rating agency to counter western dominance in the financial markets. Will it work?
The risk following recently ended economic booms in Africa is that, due to insufficient planning and excessive optimism, the windfalls were wasted. But there are signs that Africa may be changing.
George Kerevan, Stephen Boyd and Katherine Trebeck see a world where employees are treated like just-in-time inventory.
A number of novels provide links between risk-assessment, financial speculation, and terrorism. But simultaneously, real life terror in 2016 renders writing about it completely and utterly pointless.
New research shows the harsh realities of getting by on a low income and highlights how help for those doing it tough needs to change.
Despite worries about a new Asian Financial Crisis, much has changed since the last one in 1997. Even if a crisis were to materialise, it would look quite different from that of two decades ago.
If Berlin doesn’t apply divisive rules that inflict pain on savers, expect cries of double standards from southern Europe.
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Professor of Finance and Fred T. Tattersall Excellence in Finance Research Chair, West Virginia University
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Professor of Finance at l’ESILV et à l'EMLV, member of De Vinci Research Center, Pôle Léonard de Vinci
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Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment, Queen's University, Ontario
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs, UMass Boston
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Open Evidence Research, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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