Far from the idea of “trickle-down economics”, a map illustrates how the waterworks of the financial system are parching certain sections of the real economy and producing vast inequality.
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Clarity and care for the environment should be priorities.
A call to make our cities more resilient to climate change could drive one of the largest new infrastructure builds in history.
The European Investment Bank’s funding of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline will harm the climate and makes little financial sense.
A variable special rate on new residential housing developments in selected centres could be used to create a local incentive to supply more affordable dwellings at higher density.
If the UK fails to maintain its global outlook, it could lose business to a globalist France.
The stricken bank offered a chance to remodel how we think about banking in Britain. Instead it should now provide a focus for anti-austerity protests.
Looking back at how the US financial industry grew to dominate the economy rather than merely serve it will help us avoid another crisis.
The biggest open secret in the financial world has been confirmed. Regulators in the UK, the US and Switzerland have announced massive fines for some of the world’s largest banks for a manipulation of…
Islamic finance is going global. South Africa has joined the UK and Hong Kong to become the third non-Muslim country to issue an Islamic bond or sukuk. And this follows American investment bank Goldman…
The major international banks are being lumbered with more and higher fines as the fallout from the financial crisis continues. Our research as part of the Conduct Costs Project at the CCP Research Foundation…
When Mathew Martoma, the former portfolio manager of SAC Capital, was sentenced to nine years in prison for insider trading last week, much of the comment was about how harsh the punishment looked. It…
The EU has been busy promoting its business interests abroad in an attempt to boost exports, underpin a faltering economic recovery and raise the competitiveness of European member states. Trouble is…
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, wants to change the way bankers get paid in order to discourage them from taking excessive risk or behaving badly. He has suggested that a big part of…
Another week, another banking scandal. In the past few years we have seen what appears to be an endless line-up of banks behaving badly. They have engaged in rate manipulation, rogue trading, product mis-selling…
Stephen Long’s story last night on the ABC’s Four Corners beautifully illustrated the human cost of financial misconduct, as retirees and widows described the pain of having lost their super funds and…
The first thing that strikes you when you re-read the “Declaration” issued in autumn 2011 by the Occupy protesters assembled in Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan is how little of it actually relates…
Wealth management company Yellow Brick Road and Macquarie Bank have foreshadowed some sort of relationship which will provide a “much-needed alternative for Australian consumers” with the first step being…
“How was it that relatively unsophisticated Council officers came to invest many millions of ratepayers’ funds in these specialised financial instruments? That is the fundamental question at the heart…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has chalked up what appears at first glance to be another high-profile success in its prosecution of the strategies used by investment banks to profit from…
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