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I am not sure if most banks in the west want to finance productivity, efficiency and sustainable economic growth. And why do I say that? Well, let’s see, a very large part of the banks’ balance sheet seems to be allocated towards financial market transactions. Be it growth in lending to private equity firms,
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According to known history, banks as an idea began around 1,800 BC in Babylon. It started replacing moneylenders who would make loans to people. Over time banks, as independent entities became the beacon of trust in society, and started making loans as well as accepted deposits. They also changed money. Modern banking as we know
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A generic description of nature will most likely be , the collective natural, physical, material world as well as the universe at large. Some refer to “Nature” as the physical world they live in. Our best and biggest discoveries all come from nature. And as humans we are all part of nature, so we come
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Every human idea is a product of imagination and thinking, be it, the idea of a nation state, democracy, economy, financial markets, or a religion for that matter. As these ideas evolve, we then conceive processes and procedures to keep the idea going and growing. But all these ideas that we conceive, do come with
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The markets are abuzz about the possibility of a global recession. And based on the economic indicators especially the tools used by the market participants to gauge or predict a possible recession, you could see a strong case there. Having said that, if you are student of recession and also life in general then, your
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The recent movements in the markets and its overall behaviour is starting to indicate that the game is changing and has already changed somewhat, and the market participants are having to adapt to these changes rather quickly. And here is an example, so when my GrandMa suggested that never mind the good old correlation theory,
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Our modern economic system is overload with all sorts of statistical data, all aimed at helping us better understand and interpret, the overall health and condition of the economy. And one of the top leading economic indicator to measure the health of an economy is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), used by central bankers around
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When answering the question, why the quantitative easing (QE) didn’t create an inflationary fire in the developed world as expected by many in the markets, we would probably need to go back to basic. And based on basic economics, we know that the real inflation is driven by an increase in spending from the consumer side. The
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