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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China is stepping up its efforts to show its unease with the US dollar. The Chinese reserves are predominantly invested in USD. The US are pursuing an unconventional policy to fight against deflation, buying US Treasuries, toxic debt and almost everything in between. China smells the risk of devaluation, and this explains ...
I will spare you all the details, but the Geithner plan is basically the creation of a government-run hedge fund, in which all possible clients are invited to participate. The difference with a hedge fund is the remuneration of the managers of the fund (which will not be the typical 2/20 rule), their offices (which will be ...
Opmerkelijk: Floris Deckers, de grote baas van het Nederlandse Van Lanschot, biedt zijn excuses aan en geeft meteen zes aanbevelingen voor het herstel van vertrouwen in de banken. 1 Banken waarvan het bedrijfsmodel niet nadrukkelijk een echte vraag van echte klanten beantwoordt, hebben geen toekomst meer. ...
The Belgian government has decided not to develop a second recovery plan. The first one was already a very light menu of candy for consumers and companies. In my opinion, the best measure is in what the government is not doing. No budgetary stimulus for unnecessary projects or increases of replacement wages and ...
The chart above suggests that gold is in the early phase of a bubble. This implies that the price of the yellow stuff could start to rise more spectacularly in the coming year, to crash back to earth later. Shorting gold therefore would be quite dangerously. National banks around the world have been selling their gold, or leasing ...
Alan Greenspan has written a remarkable column in the Wall Street Journa l, entitled : The Fed Didn't Cause the Housing Bubble - Any new regulations should help direct savings toward productive investments. Greenspan makes the subtle difference between 'low interest rates' (fixed by his ...
Economists around the world are promoting Keynes to the government. Given current circumstances, if I had to chose between Keynes or Shumpeter however, I would go for the latter. This being said, 'creative destruction' can never be achieved without government measures. These policies should not address primarily the companies in ...
We gaan vandaag gebukt onder een financiële crisis en een economische crisis. Maar er is méér: economie is uiteindelijk maar een vertaling van menselijk gedrag. Als dat groepsgedrag op hol slaat, krijgen we overdrijvingen die we bubbels noemen of collectieve waanzin. Die overdrijving kan zich manifesteren op de beurs, of in de ...
I was looking at the chart from 'The Economist' on public debt of selected G20 countries. The trend is scary. On the other hand, the difference between developed and emerging markets is not a qualitative one. Emerging countries have often better economic fundamentals than the developed. Quite a difference with the recessions over ...
De Franse President Nicolas Sarkozy duwde Zwitserland nog wat meer naar de afgrond. Hij zei dat het Alpenland op een zwarte lijst van belastingparadijzen zou kunnen komen. Dit kan belangrijke gevolgen hebben, en het einde betekenen van een welvarende Zwitserse banksector. De samenstelling van deze lijst zou op 2 april in ...
