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Cryptocurrency: A store of value for the current crisis?
Now that the global economy is in deep recession, investors are looking for crisis-proof stores of value. Cryptocurrencies are a new class of assets that could fulfill this need. Several European countries have already created or at least started to consider the legal frameworks necessary to institutionalize this innovation. One of the biggest remaining hurdles is a lack of knowledge about cryptocurrencies among the general public, especially of those who are investing in these new asset classes.
South Africa’s new leader launches plan to accelerate growth
Following South Africa’s “lost decade” under the chaotic, often controversial leadership of former President Jacob Zuma, his successor faces challenges that are both daunting and delicate. President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to restore basic functionality of the South African state while its ruling party, and its multiethnic society, are increasingly divided ...
Renzi’s tinkering with jobs shows a changed mood in Europe
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promised to turn Italy inside out, jump-start economic growth and reduce unemployment. But during almost two years in office, he has introduced only one significant economic reform, the so-called “Jobs Act.” The outcome has been mixed, and certainly below expectations. This does not mean Mr. Renzi ...
Global trends: India’s all-out push for economic growth
The government of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going into 2016 with two principal policy objectives. One will be implementing the economic reforms that he has promised to foreign investors. Such reforms are considered crucial to industrialization and further accelerating India’s growth, which currently clocks in at a respectable ...
After Fed delay, investors consider Chinese elephant in the room
Financial markets did not react well to the Federal Reserve’s decision in September to keep interest rates stable. Presumably, investors were worried that China’s slowdown is more serious than anticipated, and that the Fed has well-founded concerns about the outlook for the American and European economies. <i>While...
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