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  Shadow banking has been gaining attention in the mainstream financial press in recent months, and although this sector is still largely unknown to most people, it has the potential to significantly impact them. The term “shadow banking” typically refers to non-bank financial intermediaries that offer credit and other banking-like services outside traditional regulatory and […]

  The issue of peso appreciation in Argentina has been a growing concern since the beginning of the new government. The current monetary policy has chosen a monthly depreciation of 2% of the exchange rate in the face of inflation that has not yet converged to those levels. From the beginning, this spread has raised […]

Public debt levels are rising throughout the developed world, with economies bordering on stagflation as politicians prefer short-term giveaways to long-term fixes. Since the turn of the century, the amount of public debt relative to gross domestic product (GDP) in developed economies has surged to highwater marks not seen since the turmoil of World War […]

  On 18 October 2024, the following commentary was in Bloomberg News:   For Wall Street skeptics and diehard members of Team Recession, there’s always some evidence to support their grim prognostications. And while they’ve been proven wrong time and again by an effervescent US economy, right now equity valuations are indeed stretched, corporate bond […]

  Once driven by market forces, China’s stock market now serves as a strategic instrument in a tightly controlled mixed economy. Under previous administrations, there was a notable push toward pro-market reforms, which allowed for a degree of responsiveness to global financial trends. However, with President Xi Jinping at the helm, the landscape has changed. […]