It Was a Pivotal Year in TPP Activism but the Biggest Fight Is Still to Come … A draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership's (TPP) Intellectual Property chapter from May 2014 leaked this past fall, confirming what previous leaks had suggested: this so-called trade agreement would bring copyright enforcement provisions that threaten users' right to free expression, privacy, and unfettere...Read More
World faces low inflation threat not seen since before WWII … Analysts are predicting that inflation will fall below 2pc in all of the countries that make up the G7 group of advanced nations this year. Central banks need to work fast to stop the world falling into a deflationary spiral … If inflation falls as low across the G7 as economists expect it to, this year will bring one of the...Read More
The latest Calvin Klein Jeans campaign has been directed by Johan Renck and features global superstar Justin Bieber and supermodel Lara Stone. Justin and Lara wear key jeans styles of the season, furthering the iconic brands' longstanding legacy of bringing fashion and music together."Calvin Klein is such an iconic brand and I am excited and honored to become a part of the Calvin Klein brand legac...Read More
The Duke of York's personal friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has seen him dragged into an alleged sex-slave scandal Prince Andrew first met Jeffrey Epstein through his friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, in the 1990s. By 2000, the Prince and Miss Maxwell were holidaying with Epstein at Donald Trump's Mar a Largo Club in Palm B...Read More
How can we make capitalism more popular? Individual investors should have access to tech start-up IPOs, giving the public a stake in capitalism, says Xavier Rolet, the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange … Capitalism has taken a pummeling over the last few years. From the global credit crunch to the banking failures, the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) and beyond,...Read More
The Rise and Fall of Gold … King Midas lusted after it. The Incas worshipped it. Shiny flakes of it set off a 19th-century rush to California and ship captains never stop looking for it at the bottom of the sea. While gold has ignited passions for centuries, for today's investors, it seems, the metal has been losing its allure. After surging sevenfold during a 12-year bull market —...Read More
How can we make capitalism more popular? Individual investors should have access to tech start-up IPOs, giving the public a stake in capitalism, says Xavier Rolet, the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange … Capitalism has taken a pummeling over the last few years. From the global credit crunch to the banking failures, the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) and beyond,...Read More
The Rise and Fall of Gold … King Midas lusted after it. The Incas worshipped it. Shiny flakes of it set off a 19th-century rush to California and ship captains never stop looking for it at the bottom of the sea. While gold has ignited passions for centuries, for today's investors, it seems, the metal has been losing its allure. After surging sevenfold during a 12-year bull market —...Read More
This week, we're joined by our friend and returning guest, Jeb Handwerger. Jeb is the editor of GoldStockTrades.com, and is a highly sought after analyst, focusing on the mining sector. Jeb has been very true towards the junior mining sector the last years, even while the general stock market has reached new highs, and the junior miners have been extremely undervalued. Jeb has remained bullish on...Read More
So high expectations, so few riders … Criticizing economics for not being scientific enough is a crime of which many of us – I've done it – are guilty. But there's a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain, writing in the New York Times, have done it the wrong way. – BloombergDominant Social Theme: Economics is a great tool for...Read More
Greek expulsion from the euro would demolish EMU's contagion firewall … Should EMU leaders choose to cut off liquidity support for the Greek banking system they might find that their contagion defences are a fiction. – UK TelegraphDominant Social Theme: Greece is now irrelevant to the financial health of the euro and the EU. EU defenses, as painfully placed as the Maginot Line, wil...Read More
So high expectations, so few riders … Criticizing economics for not being scientific enough is a crime of which many of us – I've done it – are guilty. But there's a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain, writing in the New York Times, have done it the wrong way. – BloombergDominant Social Theme: Economics is a great tool for...Read More
Greek expulsion from the euro would demolish EMU's contagion firewall … Should EMU leaders choose to cut off liquidity support for the Greek banking system they might find that their contagion defences are a fiction. – UK TelegraphDominant Social Theme: Greece is now irrelevant to the financial health of the euro and the EU. EU defenses, as painfully placed as the Maginot Line, wil...Read More
Over the past few decades, Steven Hudson started two businesses: Newcourt Capital and, later on, a hair club for men and women. So, now that he's started a third business, you might say he's in his element.Especially since this third company is actually called Element Financial Corp. (EFN-TSX).Be that as it may, John Stephenson likes what Mr. Hudson has done. Mr. Stephenson is president and CEO...Read More
My very first club mix! Enjoy and feel free to comment and rate!:) More mixes will follow depending on the numbers of likers. All music belongs to the rightfull owners, if u like the songs be sure to support the artists!Tracklist:00:00:00 - 00:03:36 Aly & Fila meets Roger Shah ft Adrina Thorpe - Perfect Love00:03:36 - 00:07:22 Sander van Doorn, Martin Garrix & DVBBS ft Aleesia - Gold Skies00:07:22...Read More
Our Predictions … Gold and Silver Markets – 2015 Astrological Trends … Gold and Silver markets are relatively stable, owing to which both these metals are seen as good investments. Ganesha takes the advent of 2015 as an opportunity to look at the 2015 Horoscope and planets to predict the way ahead for these markets … Gold and Silver markets are relatively stable, owing to w...Read More
There Is a Constitutional Crisis, but Not the One Many People Think … It's the Bush-Obama record of surveillance and lack of accountability—and not executive action on immigration—that ought to concern citizens. – The AtlanticDominant Social Theme: Lawlessness is the problem, not specific laws or regulations.Free-Market Analysis: The idea of this Atlantic article is tha...Read More
Our Predictions … Gold and Silver Markets – 2015 Astrological Trends … Gold and Silver markets are relatively stable, owing to which both these metals are seen as good investments. Ganesha takes the advent of 2015 as an opportunity to look at the 2015 Horoscope and planets to predict the way ahead for these markets … Gold and Silver markets are relatively stable, owing to w...Read More
There Is a Constitutional Crisis, but Not the One Many People Think … It's the Bush-Obama record of surveillance and lack of accountability—and not executive action on immigration—that ought to concern citizens. – The AtlanticDominant Social Theme: Lawlessness is the problem, not specific laws or regulations.Free-Market Analysis: The idea of this Atlantic article is tha...Read More