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- ekan commented Dec 17, 2019
The author makes an important point that Singapore is very far from "unregulated", but a very tightly managed society. Based on my almost 8 years of experience living there, this is true. Certain taxes in Singapore are very low. Income tax, even ...
Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?
- ekan commented Dec 17, 2019
Nigel Farage said on TV "48 to 52 will be unfinished business", when even he believed Leave would lose.
Three Lessons From The UK Elections
- ekan commented Dec 17, 2019
Buy the poll sell the election. In the morning after the night of the spike up at the exit poll, some right wing news paper triumphantly displayed a chart of the spike with the clear message how the markets endorse BoJo. I hope now they will display ...
GBPUSD collapses at European open, trading down to 1.3160. Stops Triggered
- ekan commented Dec 16, 2019
bones....I can only hope the leavers (along with Trumpies, and the rest of your ideological brethren elsewhere) will continue to give a hoot about democracy when you start losing. i seriously doubt you will, though.
Three Lessons From The UK Elections
- ekan commented Dec 16, 2019
Nothing shortens the memory like profit and money.
Mnuchin says trade deal with China to boost global economy
- ekan commented Dec 14, 2019
Jeez.....please be fair to Republucans also. Nixon went to Beijing eager to score internal political points. Dems did not send him there. Reagan, busy with the Soviets, let CCP put on their sheep clothing without much objection. Tian An Men square ...
US-China Agreement Fact Sheet
- ekan commented Dec 14, 2019
I did not say easy. It is not easy in other professions, either. If you are a doctor, and you treat a patient with opposite political beliefs in a medically inferior way, you face disciplinary, potentially even criminal, liability because you failed ...
US-China Agreement Fact Sheet
- ekan commented Dec 13, 2019
Anyone who has any amount of work experience should not need such a lesson. It is expected in all places of employment. If you want to have any chance to succeed as a trader, you should take it as a business/self employment, hence the lesson applies ...
US-China Agreement Fact Sheet
- ekan commented Dec 12, 2019
So, inflation, a hardcore price phenomenon, now has a faint disconnection with prices?? Hmmmmm....does he even realize the oxymoron within his sentence? It has been obvious for months now the derivative/speculative black hole is sucking in dollars. ...
Powell Q&A: Inflation weaker over years, now faint connection with prices
- ekan commented Dec 11, 2019
Apparently God's help will be needed! The Chosen One seems to have had a hard time with it so far.
Trump can’t force China to yield on trade like Mexico
- ekan commented Dec 11, 2019
And one more thought. Of course noone with economics credentials spares a thought of the biosphere carrying capacity. The rosy economic dreams of another long spell of a secular growth may well suffer a brutal crash at the Malthusian limit. Greta ...
Is It Time to Retire Global Unemployment?
- ekan commented Dec 10, 2019
It is important to understand this: "Like all predictions our model comes with some uncertainty, and the margin of error here could put the final number of Conservative seats from 311 to 367. This means that we absolutely cannot rule out the 2019 ...
UK Election: YouGov/Times MRP Model Projects Conservative Majority of 28 (Nov. 27: Majority of...
- ekan commented Dec 8, 2019
"In the long run the economy should return to a market orientation" I am wondering if Commie Princeling Levin(!) Zhu really believes his own bs. PRC economy has never been a market economy. It cannot return to what it has never been. Over the last ...
Chinese government advisers warn against major stimulus to keep economy on track
- ekan commented Dec 8, 2019
In fact Trump has been exceedingly lucky not to face a major crisis that would truly test his capabilities or lack thereof. Most of crises during his presidency have been of his own making. This is a stark contrast to Bush, who had to deal with ...
UK will have time to strike trade deals after Brexit - Johnson
- ekan commented Dec 8, 2019
This actually isn't news in a sense of an urgent account of a recent or current event. It is more like an analysis that is relevant to any weekend, this, next, or last. Perhaps the greatest value of this analysis is the destruction of a pervasive ...
Danger Lurks for Currency Market If Volatility Recurs, BIS Says
- ekan commented Dec 8, 2019
Never mind - your reply is 5 days late. We are already preparing for the net week's moves past NFP.
GBP/USD surges to near 7-month high
- ekan commented Dec 8, 2019
Wonderful logic! I love that. How about we extend it thus: it is good for The West to break once and for all its dependence on Communist China for manufacturing. No mater the short term financial pain, nor attachment to just one ...
UK will have time to strike trade deals after Brexit - Johnson
- ekan commented Dec 5, 2019
The catalyst of the yesterday rally is still a mystery. Bones tried to ascribe it to the usual suspect, a poll predicting Tory majority. Typically of his one-liner style, link to the source was not provided. FF reported nothing. The move started out ...
GBP/USD surges to near 7-month high
- ekan commented Dec 5, 2019
Thanks for your unneeded help, bones. As I wrote later "buy the poll sell the election". And yes, I am waiting for my sells to cash back in. Those who pine how cable will keep going up on and on fail to take into account the manic-depressive nature ...
GBP/USD surges to near 7-month high
- ekan commented Dec 5, 2019
Not a word about The People's Republic either. Even stranger, isn't it....
‘Free money’ could spark crisis