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Egypt: a crisis deferred
After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out. But a record-setting investment from the UAE will not fix its chronic problems | ... (2024)
Argentina’s upcoming election; Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right
Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei are rising in the polls for this year’s presidential election | The Americas The annual inflation rate, of 11... (2023)
Africa’s debts. Africa faces a mounting debt crisis
Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)
What Happens if the US Defaults on its Debt?
Understand the different types of defaults, what happens if the US defaults on its debt, and how it could impact your finances. (2023)
How to fix the IMF International Monetary Fund | The Economist
The fund must get tough on obstructive creditors, but save them a seat at the table | Leaders (2023)
Hunger in Brazil - An old scourge returns - The Economist
As covid-19 rages, many poorer people can no longer afford enough food | The Americas Brazilians are increasingly going hungry… (2021)
Special drawing wrongs - Issuing special drawing rights will be a sign of failure for the IMF
Poor countries need more help, but it should be transparent and targeted | Leaders (2021)
The Housing Vultures - by Francesca Mari
Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes... (2020)
International banking - Geopolitics and technology threaten America’s financial dominance | Special report
And now the covid-19 pandemic is precipitating a split, says Matthieu Favas (2020)
The official jobless numbers are horrifying. The real situation is even worse
The record unemployment numbers only hint at the crisis facing many with no work. (2020)
Small Businesses Depend on the Stimulus Package. The Stimulus Will Depend on Fintech
The government is unprepared to identify, adjudicate, and disburse $350B of aid to small businesses without a sea of fraud. Tech is the answer. Now. (2020)
St. Louis Fed estimates 32% unemployment, 52M out of work (March 2020) | St. Louis Fed
Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates of Next Quarter’s Unemployment Rate. Layoffs are certainly one of the effects of battling COVID-19. What sort of ... (2020)
Stripe to Offer a Corporate Card, Joining Brex and Others (2019)
Stripe Inc. is launching its own corporate credit card less than one week after the payments processing giant introduced a new lending product. (2019)
Financial Times Argentina: how IMF’s biggest ever bailout crumbled under Macri - 2019
The decision to seek what became the biggest bailout in the IMF’s history took only a few minutes. A loss of faith in Argentina’s reform program... (2019)
Brazil is shaping up for a unique kind of financial crisis - The Economist
RUDI DORNBUSCH, a renowned economist who died in 2002, said there were two sorts of currency crisis. The pre-1990s kind is slow. It starts with an ... (2018)
Did We Learn Nothing From the 2008 Crisis? || LongRead
The continuation of the false narrative of what caused the 2008 financial collapse is alarming. (2018)
Argentina Could Unravel Fast As Central Banker Jumps Ship (2018) - Forbes
If history is any guide, Argentina's economy -- and its political leadership -- could explode at any minute. (2018)
The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis || The New Yorker
John Cassidy on the aftermath, which produced a lost decade for European economies and helped lead to the rise of anti-establishment political move... (2018)
Crypto Trading 101: The Fibonacci Retracements - CoinDesk
CoinDesk unpacks and explains Fibonacci retracements, a tool used to predict potential price support and resistance, for crypto traders. (2018)
Opinion | The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined - The New York Times
New data reveals how colleges are benefiting from billions in financial aid while students are left with debt they cannot repay. (2018)
What Venezuelan savers can teach everyone else - The Economist
ASK the chief investment officer of a fund-management firm how to spread your investments and you will be told to put so much in stocks, so much in... (2018)
What Venezuelan savers can teach everyone else - The Economist
ASK the chief investment officer of a fund-management firm how to spread your investments and you will be told to put so much in stocks, so much in... (2018)
Italy needs to be handled with care - Panic, but not yet - The Economist (2018)
DURING the worst days of the euro-zone debt crisis, the fear was that bond-market turmoil in places such as Greece and Spain would spread to Italy.... (2018)
Rome’s battle with Europe will show if Italy is too big to fail, strategist says - CNBC
There's a standoff emerging between the European Union and the new Italian government, one which will ultimately answer the question whether Italy ... (2018)
Why has Argentina called in the IMF? - The Economist explains
IT WAS an announcement Mauricio Macri hoped never to have to make. On May 8th Argentina’s exhausted-looking president declared that Argentina was s... (2018)
The flaws of finance - The Economist
Overpaid, over-important and over-geared "BUSINESS school graduates do not all want to work in investment banking these days. The industry does ... (2018)
What's Behind One of the Biggest Financial Scams in History - LIBOR - Wharton
The LIBOR scandal is one of the biggest financial scrams in history. In his new book, journalist David Enrich unravels what went down. (2018)
What causes financial crises? - The Economist explains economics
This week “The Economist explains” is given over to economics. For each of six days until Saturday, this blog will publish a short explainer on a s... (2018)
The European Union’s delicate political economy - Free exchange
GREECE’S marathon crisis is at least instructive. Past flare-ups have illustrated a textbook’s worth of economic principles. The latest episode—a d... (2017)
How the euro zone deals with failing banks - The Economist explains
ALMOST a decade after the global financial crisis, aftershocks rumble on. This month Banco Popular, Spain’s sixth-biggest bank by assets, was bough... (2017)
Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
France’s Pension Reforms: Why Is There So Much Opposition? | WSJ
French President Emmanuel Macron’s government invoked a special provision called Article 49 Thursday to push through a controversial pensions overh... (2023)
Imperfect Union: The Eurozone in Crisis - Full Episode
After WWI, Europe's leaders established greater economic ties to help prevent future continental conflict. Now, more than half a century later, the... (2018)
How the euro caused the Greek crisis
Greece is in a state of economic and financial crisis that's dominated global headlines this week. Vox's Matt Yglesias explains the real roots of t... (2018)
Investment Analyst Explains Margin Call
Margin Call is a movie on how investment banks reacted to the impending collapse of the US real estate market in 2008, but like other finance films... (2022)
Game of Theories: The Great Recession - Marginal Revolution University
Marginal Revolution University Published on Dec 5, 2017 Tyler Cowen puts Keynesian, monetarist, real business cycle, and Austrian theories to w... (2018)
Understanding the Great Depression - Marginal Revolution University
Marginal Revolution University Published on May 23, 2017 In this video, we examine the causes behind the Great Depression with the help of the ... (2018)
The Great Recession - the failure of financial intermediaries - Marginal Revolution University
Marginal Revolution University Published on Aug 9, 2016 There’s already been much discussion over what fueled the Great Recession of 2008. In t... (2018)
The Sunshine Economy: Cuban Currency Unification | WLRN
After more than 25 years, Cuba is doing away with its dual currency system and getting rid of the Cuban Convertible Peso. What does the change mean... (2021)
Lighting the Stock Market on Fire - Vox Media | Podcast
Listen to this episode from Go For Broke on Spotify. Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com ... (2020)
Bear Stearns fell 10 years ago today - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)
A match made at Bear Stearns - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
Yesterday we examined the financials that lead to the fall of Bear Stearns, and now we're going to look at the human side: A couple of unlikely Wal... (2018)
2008 Financial Crisis (10 years later): NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)