Economic Bubble

Popular tales of “Mrs Watanabe” -- the canny Tokyo housewife who dabbles in currency trading in between school runs and shopping -- barely begin to tell the story of Japan’s retail traders in the foreign exchange market. With almost 800,000 active forex acco…

(Bloomberg) -- Popular tales of Mrs. Watanabe -- the canny Tokyo housewife who dabbles in currency trading in between school runs and shopping -- barely begin to tell the story of Japans retail traders in the foreign exchange market. With almost 800,000 acti…

UAW Strike: Another Indicator of Bursting Bubble Economy

As the Halloween dance rages — a gymnasium of high schoolers in cheap costumes bouncing around to the sounds of The Offspring — one teen arrives with murder on the brain. Anton (Devon Sawa) cuts through the crowd, vaults onstage and waves the bleeding stump o…

Tulips, bitcoin, fantasy worlds — how to each relate to the other? Alexandra Rowland knows, and in their Big Idea for A Choir of Lies, they are happy to lay it all out for you. ALEXANDRA ROWLAND: Do you like coincidences? Here’s a cool one: From November o…

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Fintechs are all the rage. Scarcely a day goes by without a new challenger bank or money app making headlines about how it seeks to disrupt traditional banking and solve personal finance problems. As a result, capital is pouring into the sector last year, gl…

1. Recession is a phase in the economic cycle of any economy when there is a decline in GDP, income, employment, manufacturing and sales. 2. It may be triggered due to a financial crisis or an external trade shock, an adverse supply shock or the bursting of …

(Source - Pexels/Aleksandar Pasaric) The iShares MSCI Japan Small-Cap ETF (SCJ) has to be one of my favorite developed-world equity ETFs on the market today. It lacks the severe overvaluation risks of global large-caps and has financially clean companies wit…

The Cabinet Office estimates that up to 3.4 million people work as freelancers, or about 5 percent of the nation’s 66 million-strong workforce. Some private-sector estimates put the number at more than 10 million, depending on the definition of freelancing. T…