Australia looks to be on the verge of a nasty unwind of its housing bubble. A plunge would damage not only its banks but also retirement funds, since banks play an outsized role in the Australian stock market.
Read more...May looks to be hoist on her Brexit petard.
Read more...Testing your knowledge of which top Federal officials have been tough and lax on bank fraud.
Read more...The long arm of US law reaches into bitcoin wallets.
Read more...The World Uncertainty Index reveals how uncertainty in the world has evolved over time, whether it is synchronised across countries, and how it compares across income groups and political regimes.
Read more...Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system not a bug, pioneering economist Susan Strange recognized.
Read more...Bronze Age societies forgave agricultural debt to keep cultivators working on their land, able to pay taxes and work in the military and on public projects. Lenders were seen as greedy and exploitative.
Read more...New research shows that ‘master’ fingerprints can bypass smartphone fingerprint ID systems – thus striking another blow at the biometric ID fairy.
Read more...Concerns are building over the extent of leveraged lending, among regulators and politicians and the private sector alike. Some, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren see troubling signs that recall risks that triggered the Great Financial Crisis.
Read more...Why debt unforgiveness is the original and incurable curse on our post-eighth-century-B.C. Western Civilization,
Read more...Some emerging-market economies look wobbly. How likely are we to see more crises?
Read more...Clearing up fundamental misconceptions about US Treasury bond issuance.
Read more...Consumer debt continues to grind upwards.
Read more...Who will feel the pain first in the coming credit squeeze?
Read more...Some of the analytical sleights of hand used to promote the ideology of financializatation.
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