Protectionism: the current situation - May 11, 2018
Last week both Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel rushed to Washington to meet Donald Trump and discuss with him about the freezing of tariffs on European aluminium and steel, imposed by the US administration and starting on May 1st, 2018. They claimed that tariffs lead to protectionism and slowly but truly to a real trade war, which is very perilous for the global economy. |
Piling on debt: an alarming déjà-vu - April 18, 2018
Expansionary monetary policies following the financial crisis have produced a global rise in the level of indebtedness that, considering the impending end of monetary loosening policies, appears more alarming than ever. Recently, the International Monetary Fund reported that public and private sectors are now more indebted than they were at their peak in 2009. |
Sustainable Investing: a virtuous spiral - April 13, 2018
Nowadays, investors have plenty of choices about how to invest their savings. Today we will analyze sustainable investments trying to understand if this ethical choice provides also economic benefits for investors’ savings. |
‘Bitcoin 2.0’ - The benefits and risks of state-backed cryptocurrencies - April 9, 2018
In the past few years, there has been a great increase in the awareness level of peer-to-peer concept of private digital currencies, also called cryptocurrencies. In the meantime, more and more experts of the financial sector have openly expressed their skepticism and criticism towards some of its currently existing forms, the bitcoin, with a market capitalization of roughly 168 billion dollars, being the largest one of them. |
Socially Responsible Investments: do well by doing good - April 2, 2018
When people think about finance they generally indirectly give for granted the dichotomy between profit and sustainability. In reality, we can find a strong link between the two and this link is called SRI, or socially responsible investment. But what is an ethical investment in practice? |