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Tougher market conditions. High volatility. Slumping commodity prices. Exorbitant debt.
Tougher market conditions. High volatility. Slumping commodity prices. Exorbitant debt. These are the headlines describing the recent performance of emerging market economies, a group of middle-income countries that have become …
Financial Affairs for Dummies: Interest Rates
If you were given a choice of paying £30 for a paintball game today or on the Halloween of 2016, you would probably opt for Halloween 2016. While your more …
What happens if the US Federal Reserve raises the interest rate?
Author: An Li Xu, Jia Qi Jiang The US Federal Reserve announced its decision on short-term interest rate policies last Thursday September 17. Although they have issued multiple warnings and …
Hedge Funds: A Crisis in the Making
HEDGE FUNDS: A CRISIS IN THE MAKING Author: Abhishek Parasrampuria, Chief Financial Correspondent, The London Globalist While 78 billion dollars may not get you the world or Robert Downing Jr. …
Greece Elections: What might happen to the Financial Markets now?
By late Sunday on January 25th 2015, Greek voters decided to give power to the radical leftist party in their national election. The opposition party Syriza, led by the young …
The Entrepreneurship Series: Lance Uggla of Markit
‘Know a little bit of everything’ was one among several nuggets of entrepreneurial wisdom delivered Markit founder and CEO, Lance Uggla. On Tuesday night, LSE’s Sheikh Zayed theatre hosted the …
Ebolanomics: The Pharmaceutical Question
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed close to 5,000 lives. The UN predicts up to 10,000 new cases per week could soon be witnessed. World Bank president …
Will democracies continue to bid for global sporting tournaments?
The 2022 Winter Olympics represent something of a watershed moment for the IOC. The withdrawal of Oslo as a candidate city this month has left the organisation with just two …
Breakfast and the Papers-Tuesday 9th September
We are all told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. We are also often told the importance of keeping up to date with global current affairs. …
Nuclear Visions: Is Fukushima a Global Crisis? By Madiha Bataineh and Didrik Dyrdal
On the 11th of March in 2011, the Tohoku earthquake triggered a tsunami that broke against the coast of Japan and impaired the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Water waves flooded …