How property prices affect fertility
When discussing the decline in birth rates, rising property prices are often cited as the culprit. Is such a conclusion merely the…
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When the Fed can't say no: politics, markets and the illusion of stability
The Fed cut rates even though the US economy does not need a bailout, thus supporting Trump. The path of the S&P 500 index to …
Did Netflix take a big bite? The streaming service has taken over part of Warner Bros.
Surprisingly, the whole transaction has one strong opponent. It is US President Donald Trump.
Risk appetite returns to the markets
Nothing has changed in the last month. The themes in the financial markets remain constant: artificial intelligence and the US Fed…
Investors abandon ship, but captain reports all is well
The financial market downturns have been going on for three weeks now. The situation is opaque in that there is no single cause, b…
Digital money issued by central banks is a parade of failures
The winner in the race for bad digital money is clearly Nigeria's e-Naira. The emergence of China's state-owned digital currency, …
The concrete wall of artificial intelligence
At the end of last week on November 13, we witnessed one of the worst trading sessions of the year.
Longest shutdown, shortest memory of markets
At the beginning of the week, the markets opened on an optimistic wave that the end of the shutdown was near. Although sentiment o…
Musk's trillion-dollar jackpot
Nothing changes in the markets. One day it's a disaster as a huge financial crisis looms. The next, nobody remembers the crisis an…
Hundreds of billions in AI – the only bet worth making
A kind of schizophrenia continues to prevail on the markets.
Trump als Chef-Investmentmanager und die aufgeblasene Blase der Quantencomputer
Die Überseemärkte setzen ihren Aufschwung fort. Der Optimismus der Anleger wird durch die Erwartung weiterer Zinssenkungen genährt…
Pause im Goldrausch. Warum verliert Gold seinen Glanz?
Die jüngsten Ereignisse auf den Märkten erinnern an eine wilde Fahrt auf einem Karussell – Probleme folgen in rascher Folge aufein…
Sanktionen gegen die russische Ölindustrie erschüttern den globalen Markt deutlich
Die Vereinigten Staaten haben wirtschaftliche Sanktionen gegen die beiden größten russischen Ölkonzerne Rosneft und Lukoil verhäng…
Bank pests: Are American banks facing another crisis?
Donald Trump has extended his peace plans from the Middle East to Eastern Europe. In two weeks, a meeting between the presidents o…
Why it is important to monitor the results of American banks
The shutdown in the US continues. Since mid-October, every additional day that the American authorities remain at a standstill has…