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The cumulative return on a typical KiwiSaver growth fund since 2007 is around 240%. That’s despite a global financial crisis, COVID, trade wars and inflation.
The 2008 financial crisis set in train many of the issues the world still struggles with today.
New research adds evidence to a common thesis offered after the end of the Cold War that globalization was making physical distance economically obsolete.
The erosion of trust in the US as the steward of the liberal international order should be taken seriously.
Some rules are there for a very good reason.
Have the big firms become too big to fail?
With no single dominant power waiting to take over from the US, the impacts of the next financial crisis could have catastrophic impacts around the world.
Private banks are launching a euro-pegged cryptocurrency. It could spell disaster for Europe’s economy.
To achieve global health for the future, the leadership must come not only from the US.
The legislation would allow corporations to issue their own ‘stablecoins’, which are essentially digital casino chips.
In France, research shows that geographic clusters of industries that share similar knowledge bases and technologies have boosted employment in and across regions.
Recklessness and greed, when combined with a total lack of empathy, are a dangerous mix in the top tiers of finance.
The targeting of the FDIC could dangerously erode its ability to manage financial crises, like the one that occurred in 2008.
The aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis was hard. But today’s ‘long squeeze’ could be even harder for small business owners, as consumer spending and survival options diminish.
The Greens have called for the government to intervene and tell the RBA to cut interest rates. Such a step would undermine central bank independence.
The recent volatility in the financial markets has coincided with the unwinding of a cross-border trade known as the carry trade.
While there is much to praise in The Lehman Trilogy, now playing in Sydney, the impression I was left with was one of a missed opportunity.
Conservative critics argue the ‘social responsibility’ of business lies in increasing profits. But values have always been tied up with money-making, from the welfare state to colonialism.
The general public may want tighter crypto regulations but is the UK government listening?
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (UTS:ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Banking & Applied Economics, University of Stirling
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Head of Department of Economics, Finance & Accounting, Brunel University of London
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Accounting and Finance, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Economics, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University
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Professor of International Relations, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor of Economics, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute, The University of Melbourne