economics

Top 5 Articles15% of S&P 500 companies have a price to sales ratio over 10, more than double the peak in 2000.A study found that fund manager experience correlates...

Top 5 ArticlesThe US government is penalising savers with the largest negative real bonds yields in 40 years. In 1982, Kuwait had the third largest stock market in the...

In this wire, I take a look at investor psychology (why, for example, we’re at that stage of the cycle where amateur investors see lucky idiots making huge returns and...

Top 5 ArticlesHow Evergrande’s financial problems could spill over into banks, insurers and the Chinese stock market. Tesla has the same market capitalisation as the...

This week came the announcement that the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to three American economists for their work on natural experiments....

Much has been written on the failure of the Reserve Bank to achieve its inflation target in recent years. Bill Evans and The Australian Financial Review have argued...

Top 5 Articles The tweet that sums up investing in 2021. As a result of the eviction moratorium, some American landlords are demanding 6 months of rent upfront. ...

Top 5 ArticlesHow “the bezzle” temporarily inflates GDP in euphoric times before reversing in a downturn. A Westfield mall in California had its valuation slashed by...

A monthly wrap-up of interesting and informative media on finance, economics, politics and society that you might have missed.Individual American investors are...

One of the most annoying and destructive narratives from mainstream economists in the last decade has been that government debt doesn’t matter. It’s commonly trotted...