Getting the economy going

Intercontinental Finance, Issue 127/14, 1st September 2014 Invest in management incentives and secular stagnation The last financial crisis, like those which followed the 1929 crash in the US and 1989 crash in Japan, was caused by excess debt, with the trigger...

Remuneration – It’s Broke, So Fix It

Executive Compensation Briefing – Vol. 11. No. 2 March 2014 [ISSN 1743-7113], 1st March 2014 Adam Smith taught us that some qualities of individuals that are not necessarily admirable, such as greed, can nonetheless have beneficial outcomes for the economy as a...

Easy, queasy money.

Financial World [December / January 2013-2014], 2nd December 2013 The central banks of Japan, the UK and the US have been giving priority to stimulating demand because they believe their economies are operating below optimum level. The usual way would be to lower...