The first Renaissance struggled with the same doubts and uncertainties and blinding possibilities that we face today. Any gains we make will have to be achieved amid relentless shocks.
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Islamic banks are more risk averse than conventional banks in terms of capital and mobilising funds.
The number crunchers who helped create our capitalist world have been measuring the world since ancient times.
The Italian banking system is on the verge of a crisis. Direct state intervention is needed to solve the problem.
With nearly 25 years of uninterrupted economic growth at risk of coming to an end, the new government must make budget repair a priority.
China will not be able to rescue Australia if another crisis hits.
It’s increased global economic volatility that will cause the most uncertainty, rather than the election result.
One of the worst hit countries during the financial crisis has regained economic strength inside a gilded cage – to the extent that it can now step outside, melt it down and re-sell the gold.
Is Top Cat trying to tap into our inner huckster and charlatan, or is something else going on in Halifax’s new ad campaign?
This risk of climate-exposed investments dwarfs that of the sub-prime crisis.
Sanders and Clinton have been trading blows over who’d be best to reform Wall Street, but new research suggests they may not have the ‘authority’ to do it.
Markets have been on a rocky ride all year on concerns another recession looms. Here are a few lessons we can learn from the last one.
Yet another dramatisation of the events surrounding the financial crisis that leaves a sour taste and a questionable moral lesson.
Is the debt designed to prevent another financial crisis turning on its creators?
The longer someone is unemployed, the worse their mental health gets and this can also hinder them from finding another job, research shows.
Kevin Rudd believed he protected Australians from the global financial crisis with a bank deposit guarantee. But we already had one.
There were more protests in Britain last year than at any time since the 1970s.
Why the US is set to raise its interest rates this week for the first time since the financial crisis.
“First, do no harm”. It’s not clear that European countries even got that right as they navigated their way through the aftermath.
The loans that plunged the world into financial chaos a decade ago are beginning to appear again. Just how scared should you be?
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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