Brexit: The Barnier Cliff
December 31 is a Barnier deadline too.
Read more...Yearly Archives: 2020
This Is What Can Happen When a Cross-Border Bank Merger Goes Horribly Wrong
As Banco Sabadell’s disastrous acquisition of UK TSB has shown, a bank merger can founder due to botched IT integration.
Read more...As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find
Yves here. It’s only early December and doctors and nurses are already exhausted. The grim figures in this article are already dated; Covid hospitalization just hit a new high of 100,000 in the US. How are hospitals going to keep their troops from falling over? The earliest time when conditions might be better than now […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/2/2020
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Read more...Rapid COVID-19 Tests Can Be Useful – But There Are Far Too Few To Put a Dent in the Pandemic
Why Covid antigen tests, which are easy to administer and produce results in less than a half hour, are not a magic bullet.
Read more...Links 12/2/2020
Big Banks Grow Bigger and Smaller Banks Disappear, As Mergers Return to Crisis-Hit Eurozone
A fresh wave of bank failures and mergers are set to trigger a new round of consolidation of the Eurozone’s banking system
Read more...How Do You Combat Information Overreach?
A shaggy dog story, and a request for reader ideas on how to escape unreasonable requests for personal information.
Read more...Are “Net-Zero” Emissions a Smoke Screen?
A wide-ranging, and therefore sobering, discussion of climate change policy, including emissions and temperature targets.
Read more...Potential Consequences of Post-Brexit Trade Barriers for Earnings Inequality in the UK
More bad news on the inequality front.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/1/2020
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Read more...MMT and the EU: A Case for Capturing the Prevailing Narrative
A political economy take on the EU.
Read more...Links 12/1/2020
Another Blow to Private Equity: “You Can Pick Winners” Again Shown To Be a Fool’s Game
More bad news about private equity returns.
Read more...Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050
A new report confirms earlier studies that found that climate change will render a lot of the US uninhabitable in a few decades.
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