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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
(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 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 ...
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 ...
China is slowing down. How much we do not know. Macro-economic numbers are not always reliable, but China makes a league of its own. Official growth numbers were still around 10% in Q1 2011, but they were probably closer to 6%. A story you might have missed, is the Canadian-Chinese version of Madoff. A company named ...
Central banks, Ministers of Finance, Regulators, CEO's from banks, and everybody working in the financial industry should watch "Air Crash Investigation" on National Geographic Channel. They show how the financial industry should learn and deal with every accident, even the smallest ones.Watching television is not really my ...
The IMF and OECD remain quite confident that the world economy is just undergoing a soft patch. (Bank) economists have been issuing buy-recommendations on equities, corporate and high yield bonds, Greek debt and the new Coldplay-CD. The latter is a good reference point, because just like some recent Coldplay-songs, we have a ...
The problems with Greece are not an isolated case. Solving the Greek crisis without a reflection on a long chain of monetary and economic errors would be a complete waste of money. Our political leaders should look far beyond the Greek problems and evaluate their economic and financial policies over a period as long as ...
Yesterday's narrow confidence vote is a first step for Greece to let the austerity plan approve by the Greek Parliament. In our view, Greece and Europe were faced with a catastrophy: a Greek default in the midst of the Summer, and worse the midst of the Greek touristic season. Such a disaster can still happen. The EU needed however ...
1. Is een Griekse schuldherschikking onvermijdelijk ? 'Een of andere aanpassing van de terugbetalingsmodaliteiten van de Griekse schuld is niet te vermijden. Voorbeelden daarvan zijn een verlenging van de looptijd, het overslaan of kapitaliseren van een rentebetaling, het nemen van een 'haircut' (bijvoorbeeld aanvaarden ...
