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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Yesterday Fitch released a report with some arithmetics and outlook on the ageing population and how the developed west so far has anticipated on these demographic evolutions. As usual, most politicians and media take this with a benign neglect attitude : What's the problem, 2050 is still ages away ? Or in true Belgian style, it ...
According to the World Economic Forum, Canadian banks have been ranked as the soundest and most safe banks world-wide, this for 5 years in a row. Toronto Dominion Bank, the country's second largest lender, is the only publicly traded lender in the world which still carries a AAA label from Moody's (for what that's worth of ...
Gemini, the immortal twins Castor and Pollux, in this case Dublin and Cork. We picked up an interesting story from out of Bloomberg with the Irish unit of RBS liquidating its Dublin/Cork real estate portfolio. Royal Bank of Scotland Plc’s Irish unit offered to sell properties, including 640 apartments and a hotel, for about ...
The age of financial repression is going global these days. And it hence shouldn't come as a surprise that large pension funds are not really happy with what monetary policy is fabricating in terms of QE and interest rates. As a consequence, some re-allocations are taking place. Yesterday, the news came in that Japan's Teacher's ...
Qatar's energy resources have given it one of the world's highest per capita incomes, a futuristic urban skyline and enough clout to host the 2022 soccer World Cup. But its wealth may not be enough for the arid state to achieve an even more ambitious goal: becoming largely self-sufficient in food. ...
The labor market, the most important one in economic terms as far as I am concerned. We used to have the idea that the European labor market is much more distorted than the American one, the latter supposedly more "free". Despite today's so-called good news on the US - admittedly, it's not so bad - the numbers don't tell the whole ...
Het ene pensioensparen is het andere nietWie dacht dat men met de ogen dicht aan pensioensparen kon doen, is deze week toch abrupt met de feiten geconfronteerd geworden.Pensioensparen wordt door de financiële instellingen verkocht als een product waarvan de bijdragen deels door de belastingen worden betaald (fiscaal aftrekbaar) en ...
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 ...
Men kan het bijwonen van een concert van Roger Waters (Pink Floyd, weet u nog…) in Manchester op twee manieren verantwoorden. De eerste manier is de eerlijkste: het gaat hier duidelijk om een totaal uit de hand gelopen passie, een vorm van nostalgie die door gespecialiseerde artsen als pathologisch zou omschreven worden. Guilty as ...
De ontslagnemende regering loopt vast op het IPA. Vooral omdat ABBV/FGTB het akkoord niet zien zitten, werd het naar de regering verschoven. De Standaard stelde de vraag aan Rudy De Leeuw (ABVV) wat er mis is met het IPA. Wat is er mis met het IPA? 'Veel. Onze militanten van de sterke ...
The global population is increasing, and so does the food demand. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) even estimates that global food demand will have doubled in 2050. A huge challenge, but achievable. Food supply is not expected to become a big issue, which is not the case for sustainable food production. Rabobank ...
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You might have read that the US recession has ended.
Ik verslikte me toch even in mijn ochtendkoffie toen ik Rudi Kennes (ABVV) van Opel Antwerpen hoorde op de Radio. Blijkbaar vindt slechts een derde van de ex-Opel arbeiders een nieuwe job (DS). De voorwaarden zijn over het algemeen echter minder aantrekkelijk dan de oude voorwaarden bij Opel. Een derde van de werknemers die ...
Misschien hebt u de discussie in VOLT gemist over de hervormingen van minister Pascal Smet. Hij wil de leerlingen na het lager onderwijs nog 2 jaar langer samenhouden:
De zorgsector zou dé groeisector worden van de toekomst. Een sector die jobs gaat creëren, en opportuniteiten biedt. Men schijnt hierbij wel te vergeten dat deze sector betaald moet worden uit andere activiteiten, maar dat terzijde.Niemand zal ontkennen dat deze sector bepaalde karakteristieken heeft die hem "zwaar" maakt. Maar ...
Last month, the FAO - UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation - called for a special meeting (24/09 in Rome) after riots in Mozambique and press head lines suggested we were heading for a major food crisis, with echos from the 2007-2008 commodity spike. How serious is it and should we become worried ?
16,7% unemployment rate now in the US: taking into account discouraged workers etc. That is a lot for an economy that claims to be very flexible, and has lower wage costs than in Europe.Probably a lot of explanations, I see one very important one: overexposure to consumption, voluntary reduction of manufacturing activities to ...
