financial crisis

A central bank will prioritise financial stability over dealing with high inflation if the instability evolves into a financial crisis.

When an economic crisis arrives, there’s often two key economic arguments that play out. First, how much government stimulus should occur to replace the reduced...

In what follows I will swiftly cross Continents to consider the futures of four enigmatic economies. The fortunes of two of these concern me greatly but, that of the...

Now GDP is the cumulative amount we all earn through the course of 12 months. It is a flow, and must not be confused with either the total value of assets across the...

Frank Partnoy has lit up financial media with his claim that CLOs are set to cause a financial crisis level of bank collapses. He argues that today’s CLOs are the...

Even before COVID-19 changed the world, Tony Cousins of multi-asset and global equities manager Pyrford International was feeling pretty nervous heading into 2020. "We...

The rapid and widespread sell-off over the last four weeks is a textbook systemic deleveraging. Whilst the culprits are many; hedge funds, risk parity strategies and...

Becoming one of the most engaging wires on Livewire is no easy task. Hard work and great content aside, it contains an ‘X’ factor element that causes the piece to...

Donald Amstad of Aberdeen Standard Investments proclaimed the developed world is on the brink of “financial, economic, social and political crisis” on Livewire in...

George Bush once famously mangled the old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. Whilst it’s embarrassing watching the video of him try to...

Ten years on from the Global Financial Crisis and the threat of another financial crisis in the medium term is now a solid possibility. There are signs of weakening...

This week it's the PE10 and the impact of the financial crisis. Specifically what we're looking at is how the PE10 or CAPE (Cyclically Adjusted Price to Earnings)...

The severity of the global financial crisis, and the weakness of the subsequent recovery, triggered much soul-searching among the economics profession. The global...