Portugal should leave the euro
Portugal’s record unemployment rate tells us that it is in an economic depression and should leave the Euro, writes Shaun Richards.
Greasing the wheel: Oil's role in the global crisis
Two academics conclude that the spike in the nominal price of oil from $19.7 to $133.4 a barrel between 2002 and 2008 played a role in the subprime mortgage crisis and the worsening of the balance-of-payment imbalance leading up to the crisis.
Losing investor cash – the executive stupidity way
The $2billion losses and top-level resignations at JP Morgan should act as a warning for investors. No matter how safe the company appears to be, there is plenty of room for corporate blunders - mostly expensive, and sometimes fatal.
Mervyn King: Eurozone crisis a threat to UK recovery
The governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King warned yesterday that the euro zone debt crisis could pose a serious risk to the recovery to a UK economy that is already in a double-dip recession.
Is Netflix the new HBO?
In the bid to compete with traditional television broadcasters and dominate the nascent online video-streaming marketplace, Netflix is deploying some interesting old and new school weaponry - original TV content production and big data.
How 'global' is this global recession?
Talk of a global recession and a plunging stock market are hitting headlines - But is it as bad as investors fear?
Boost financial success by using your business brain
There is a myriad of investment techniques and strategies on offer to savvy stock pickers – but perhaps one of the most obvious, but least considered, is that the best investors treat trading and investing like a business.
UK’s shareholder spring risks becoming a winter of discontent
The “shareholder spring”, which has seen UK institutional investors rise up against corporate greed and ‘rewards for failure’, and which is named after last year’s populist uprisings across the Middle East, has got off to a remarkable start .
Eurozone crisis: Spain is being hit hard
Mindful Money’s economics blogger Shaun Richards explains the crisis situation in Spain.
Merkel & Hollande vow to pursue growth strategy for Europe
In their first meeting, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to spend the coming weeks discussing plans for generating economic growth in the eurozone.
Can risk be managed?
JP Morgan’s recent loss of two billion dollars embarrassed a bank that has been vigorously claiming that rules to restrict trading are not needed. But it also casts doubt on a settled conviction in the financial industry that risk can be managed.
Would a dose of optimism help Greece?
“Greece on a tightrope”; ‘Share meltdown over Greece crisis” – Headlines scream negativity, and helped to prompt a panicked dash out of the market by investors unwilling to risk seeing their stock decimated. So what can be done to allay the panic?
The case against a 'Grexit'
Mindful Money is debating the case for and against a Greek exit from the Eurozone. Read on for the case against what the markets have dubbed 'Grexit'.
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