Today, we have reserved a guest post for Jan De Blonde who is very actively engaged in sustainable farmland investment abroad. Jan is ...
My friend the equity racehorse sent me me the following interesting link which appeared on Dutch television and which basically ...
Vorige zondag (6 mei 2012) verscheen het volgend interview in De Zondag:
Elk jaar omtrent deze tijd publiceert BP zijn Statistical Review of World Energy. Bijna 50 pagina’s grotendeels gevuld met tabellen ...
Door een abrupt beëindigde skivakantie (nauwelijks 50 meter op de latten gestaan) bracht ik de rest van de week haast immobiel en al ...
Well, it's not exactly Moody's but more precisely Fitch, sending out messages which are "surprising" to say the least. Remember ...
Davos, setting of the Thomas Mann novel "Der Zauberberg" and sheltering famous people throughout history such as ...
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 ...
You may remember I wrote a piece on Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) , Heineken and Fraser & Neave (F&N) when I was in Singapore earlier ...
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 ...
Geen kat die deze stelling zal betwisten, maar de impact ervan op de Chinese economie wordt vermoedelijk zwaar onderschat. We hebben ...
De kogel is door de kerk, iedereen van ons kan straks aandeelhouder van Facebook worden. Intekenen op een IPO is echter niet altijd ...
Apple kwam de afgelopen week met de langverwachte medeling over hun spaarpot van 100 miljard $. Een mogelijke overname is nog niet in ...
On March 14th, the Media Innovation Center was launched (under the wings of the IBBT) and baptized 'Mix'. Its goal is to support and ...
Yesterday Fitch released a report with some arithmetics and outlook on the ageing population and how the developed west so far has ...
According to the World Economic Forum, Canadian banks have been ranked as the soundest and most safe banks world-wide, this for 5 ...
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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De openlijke steun van Paul Krugman voor François Hollande is tekenend voor de Amerikaanse topeconoom. Hij schuwt geen duidelijke keuze, en is niet de typische tweehandige econoom (“on the one hand, on the other hand”). Het grote voordeel van de duidelijkheid heeft ook een nadeel. De huidige crisis wordt daardoor al snel een ...
Today is the day that the draft for the 2012 Belgian public budget should have been finalized. Unfortunately, in absence of a government, and in absence of any consensus, there is no such draft ready. Welcome in the country named "later" or "almost there". A quick glance at the numbers learns were the problem is situated in our ...
The Financial Times Deutschland mentioned the fact that the EU is thinking about a ban on rating agencies issuing ratings on eurozone countries. It could be said that the ratings agencies are like thermometers that provoke a rise of temperature. But this is probably not the right angle to look at this possible action. The reason ...
The Top 10 of rarest things in the world ? 10. Fine German restaurants 9. Humor and self-criticism 8. Safe biking lanes in Flanders...4. Proposals for public expenditures cuts in Belgium (as part of the 10Bn€ effort) 3. Reliable US statistics 2. Reliable Chinese ...
Heel de wereld is in de ban van een piramidespel, waarvan de volgende generatie het slachtoffer zal zijn. Maar er is nog een sprankeltje hoop, zegt Geert Noels. Noels is hoofdeconoom van Econopolis.Een Ponzischema of piramidespel is tot een kunst verheven in onze westerse wereld: een schema waarbij de beloften groter zijn dan de ...
Last June we wrote that 2011 was evolving in exactly the same way as 2008. End August we Twittered a picture of a chart showing the parallel between 2008 and 2011. The chart traveled around the blogosphere with mixed reactions.
Het vertrek van Jürgen Stark kan nauwelijks overschat worden. Het komt na het vertrek van Axel Weber eerder dit jaar. De ECB zal nu in handen komen van de Italiaan Mario Draghi, met als vice-voorzitter de Portugees Vitor Constancio. Alleen een verhuis van Frankfurt naar Milaan ontbreekt nog. De reden voor het vertrek is duidelijk. ...
10 jaar geleden werd de VS getroffen door laffe terroristische aanslagen. Dezegebeurtenissen werden enorm gemediatiseerd. Miljoenen mensen beleefden rechtstreeks een groot drama. In de dagen na de aanslagen, ontstond een zekere massahysterie, die logisch was gezien de enorme impact van de aanslagen, en de media. Een jaar na de ...
Once upon a time, central bankers were anonymous, not known to the broad public. They managed silently the liquidity needs and money flows in the banking system. Under the Greenspan-era, they have become more active, intervening in the markets, and increasing their ambitions. Today, central bankers see their role very broadly, ...
Stall speed is the speed at which aircrafts do not get enough lift to fly. It is the perfect description of the pace of growth in the US and the eurozone. With quarter-on-quarter growth near zero in the 17-eurozone countries, growth momentum has come to a halt. As GDP growth numbers are lagging sentiment indicators (see main ...
La crise financière fait partie d’une évolution plus large. Le système économique occidental a besoin d’un changement fondamental allant vers un système plus durable. Il manque un équilibre et une réflexion pour la génération suivante. Le système actuel se caractérise par « trop » et « sur » : surconsommation, surendettement, trop ...
Europe is in the midst of a financial crisis. But the US is also experiencing a debt crisis. The discussion about the so-called " debt ceiling" hides a more fundamental problem: the appetite of foreigners for US debt has been disappearing. Only China and the US Federal Reserve are willing to ...
De extra uitzending van Z-Talk voor de nationale feestdag, zag er als volgt uit: Deel 1= Frank Vandenbroucke en Etienne Vermeersch over België in 2030Het werd een fel debat over de huidige situatie. Etienne Vermeersch was bijzonder kritisch over de nota van Elio di Rupo. Deel 2 = Geert Noels en Frank Vandenbroucke over Europa in ...
(deze tekst verscheen in De Standaard afgelopen weekend) - Geert Noels, hoofdeconoom en stichter van de vermogensbeheerder Econopolis, zegt dat de tijd van schuldgedreven groei definitief voorbij is. Hij waarschuwt voor kwakzalvers die ons naar de afgrond brengen. Politici en bankiers zouden moeten kijken naar ...
If we use the same logic over and over again, we will arrive at the same end result. The solutions that were used by Japan, and proposed by ia. Greenspan and Krugman failed. And yet, the same school is still in power, and implementing the same policy in the US. In Europe, this school is very powerful. In 2008 they pushed for higher ...
If you ask a frog to come up with a plan for draining a swamp, you are likely to end up with a proposal for more flooding.An inverse wealth tax That is the conclusion of Harald Hau , finance professor at Insead. the bailout is unlikely to end the problems with Greece and the eurozone. Why did the EU made such a bad ...
Een analyse van de Sociale Indicatoren door de OESO, toont enkele verrassende conclusies: Mexicans work longer days than anyone else in OECD countries, devoting 10 hours to paid and unpaid work, such as cleaning or cooking at home. Belgians work the least, at 7 hours, compared with an OECD average of 8 ...
Apple is on the brink of becoming the biggest company in the world in terms of market capitalization. It will exceed the size of Exxon Mobil, the US oil company. (The chart on the top shows the Market Cap of Nokia and Apple in Bn USD) I am a huge Apple fan, and admire Steve Jobs for every step he ...
The best publicity for Belgium and the Belgian Navy ever made.And guess what: the Navy doesn't like it...
Google has become a multi-billion company, making most of its revenues from advertising. Research now shows that Google earns the most from the financial industry, and that the 3 most important ad-themes are loans, mortgages and insurance. SEO-company Wordstream analyzed the most important search terms and the ...
