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      Guest Post - Going up the country Today, we have reserved a guest post for Jan De Blonde who is very actively engaged in sustainable farmland investment abroad. Jan is ...

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      Guest post Ironhorse : Free people around the world, Unite
 My friend the equity racehorse sent me me the following interesting link which appeared on Dutch television and which basically ...

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      Elk huishouden moet eigen energie opwekken Vorige zondag (6 mei 2012) verscheen het volgend interview in De Zondag:

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      Wat de energiestatistieken van 2011 ons vertellen Elk jaar omtrent deze tijd publiceert BP zijn Statistical Review of World Energy. Bijna 50 pagina’s grotendeels gevuld met tabellen ...

    • Elk huishouden moet eigen energie opwekken

      Elk huishouden moet eigen energie opwekken Vorige zondag (6 mei 2012) verscheen het volgend interview in De Zondag:

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      De platte aarde Door een abrupt beëindigde skivakantie (nauwelijks 50 meter op de latten gestaan) bracht ik de rest van de week haast immobiel en al ...

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      My Mood(y's) swings Well, it's not exactly Moody's but more precisely Fitch, sending out messages which are "surprising" to say the least. Remember ...

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      A Primer on the Davos, setting of the Thomas Mann novel "Der Zauberberg" and sheltering famous people throughout history such as ...

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      Sunday's Pedrocchi's Following our adventures in today's every changing moods in the world of finance, it's not a bad thing to assess volatility as a ...

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      THE ASIAN BEER BATTLE – Part 2 You may remember I wrote a piece on Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) , Heineken and Fraser & Neave (F&N) when I was in Singapore earlier ...

    • Joint Guest post : Barter & Geo-politics

      Joint Guest post : Barter & Geo-politics My dear friend Sideshow Bob sent me a short note which I think deserves some attention. It opens up the discussion on one of the most ...

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      1 is minder dan 2 Geen kat die deze stelling zal betwisten, maar de impact ervan op de Chinese economie wordt vermoedelijk zwaar onderschat. We hebben ...

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      Facebook, Google revisited? De kogel is door de kerk, iedereen van ons kan straks aandeelhouder van Facebook worden. Intekenen op een IPO is echter niet altijd ...

    • Apple, dividend maar de spaarpot blijft groeien

      Apple, dividend maar de spaarpot blijft groeien Apple kwam de afgelopen week met de langverwachte medeling over hun spaarpot van 100 miljard $. Een mogelijke overname is nog niet in ...

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      It's a long way to Tipporary... Yesterday Fitch released a report with some arithmetics and outlook on the ageing population and how the developed west so far has ...

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      AAA Maple Leafs According to the World Economic Forum, Canadian banks have been ranked as the soundest and most safe banks world-wide, this for 5 ...

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      Housing update - The Gemini Portfolio Gemini, the immortal twins Castor and Pollux, in this case Dublin and Cork. We picked up an interesting story from out of Bloomberg ...

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Heat maps, Ro-Ro transformation or the great disconnect ?

# Heat maps and correlation trades, that was the main theme over the past 6 to 7 years. In the charts above, it marks the dominant presence of red and dark blue spots, indicating various pairs of assets are either heavily negative or positive correlated to each other when it comes to price movements. It became known as Ro-Ro or Risk-on-Risk-off mode of financial ... Christof Govaerts

FX space billiards

"When you put all the pieces together, my guess is that the next in line will be Australia", Econoshock 16/04/13 Beggar thy neighbor in full swing. Well, it took about a ... Christof Govaerts

"Further veering up from what makes sense"

Last October, we already covered some nasty evolutions on the prices of US farmland http://www.econoshock.be/the-heartland-as-good-as-it-gets-folks It seems that today, also ... Christof Govaerts

Travel Log - Balticum

Late November I missed my appointment in the Baltics but I stated back then that one day I would visit this Nordic hub. And thanks to VOKA Antwerp Chamber I achieved so last week. ... Christof Govaerts

  • Death by Excel and the power of Mach 10 media

    Death by Excel and the power of Mach 10 media - image How sad, how sad to celebrate the liberty of media globalization in such a way. I am referring to the recent Rogoff-Reinhart incident or already better known as the R-R-gate. Some people discovered a mistake - an excel programmed calculation error - which puts the R-R thesis of "post crisis slow growth in a debt > 90% of GDP ... Christof Govaerts

  • Beggar thy neighbour in full swing...

    Beggar thy neighbour in full swing... ...and we have our first victim under the category "to export your problems or not, that's the question" : South Korea. When "Abenomics" was announced for the first time late November, markets already anticipated on a huge Japanese support program in budgetary terms and in monetary terms to create inflation and weaken the currency. ... Christof Govaerts

  • Housing, a new business cycle shelter ?

    Housing, a new business cycle shelter ?   - image A couple of months ago, we already discovered some green shoots in the US economy with some cautious revival signs in the housing sector after 5 years of blood, sweat and tears. Today we see that more and more optimistic surveys point to hope on the good old brick coming to the rescue once again. What's the state of play as far as ... Christof Govaerts

  • Liquidity carpet bombing

    Liquidity carpet bombing - image “The risk is we stay in this climate too long and that the carpet bombing of liquidity spurs inflation. Though there are no current signs of consumer price inflation, there is inflation, perhaps a bubble, in some asset classes. Segments of property markets across the globe, for example London, also display symptoms of this. ... Christof Govaerts

  • Henry Fonda

    Henry Fonda - image Friday and we like to take a detour to a classic movie, a Sidney Lumet 1-acter dating from 1957 starring a host of star actors, not in the least Henry Fonda. At stake is the life of a young Latino and what seems apparently to be a clear cut case for the jury, is not so straightforward for Henry Fonda. He doubts the evidence of the ... Christof Govaerts

  • Update BRICS and Global Finance

    Update BRICS and Global Finance  - image We shouldn't be surprised after all but today came the news that BRICS - Brazil, India, China, Russia and S-Africa - are a bit fed up with the international world of finance. Last year we already commented on the fact that they were willing to come to the rescue wrt the sovereign debt crisis in the developed world, provided their ... Christof Govaerts

  • Friday's "light" take on Silver

    Friday's Since QE went into 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and now global with Japan trying to break world records, gold has received quite some attention. But next to gold, we have a commodity named silver and this commodity has recently returned into the spotlight. Silver is an industrial commodity but most of all it has been subject of attention ... Christof Govaerts

  • Russia cornered in the Mediterranean ?

    Russia cornered in the Mediterranean ? - image Cyprus and the bail-out. Excuse me, depositors' "bail-in" deal and the visit to the hairdresser. About the rescue package and the fact that private savings' accounts are partially confiscated, already a lot of criticism has arisen. Economic sense or nonsense ? Or are other major forces at work here ? On the deal itself, it's a ... Christof Govaerts

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