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Swiss on wrong track with early retirement

Swiss on wrong track with early retirement

    Like many developed countries, Switzerland is facing a long-term demographic crunch that threatens to contract the labor market and undermine social pension funding. So it’s a little surprising that the Swiss Federal Council is considering a proposal that would...

Current UK prudential regulation “bound to fail”

    Tired of talking about Brexit? Don’t worry, we can talk about the “rot at the heart of the banking system” instead! The Adam Smith Institute has a new white paper outlining the continuing vulnerabilities of the British financial system, which are due in large part...

U.S. consumers paying price for tariffs

    Donald Trump’s decision to escalate the trade war with China is counter-productive, harmful to American consumers, and could even derail the stock market, argues Young Voices contributor Charlie Gers in his recent op-ed in The OC Register.     Gers notes the...

Trade War – DEFCON 2

    By David Nelson, CFA CMT, TES Contributor     Friday brought the curtain down on the market’s first negative month of the year and its first down May since 2012. From the President’s first tweet that China was backtracking on commitments already made...