Financial know-how and literacy are important life skills. Find out what’s going on in the stock markets, who sets interest rates, how mortgages work, the role of banks, crypto currencies, Blockchain and much more.
What is the big deal about crypto currencies, and about Bitcoin in particular?
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For years, outsiders trying to scale the unassailable walls of Wall Street, the epicentre of the world’s financial establishment, had little or no success.
2/09/21
Demographics matter a lot. Why? Because economic models are built on growth and productivity and need a lot of people of working age to be, well, working.
31/08/21
If asked, our economic selves would say we would be happiest living in a country with a healthy economy, whilst paying little or no tax at all
9/06/21
An economic bubble is created when the price of something is driven much higher than what it should be
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Recently, Coinbase, a crypto currency exchange, was listed on the Nasdaq with a valuation of $60bln. And most of us had not really heard of it before. So what is it?
7/05/21
In 2013, two friends set out to invent a ‘parody crypto-currency’. They wanted to make it as jokey and ridiculous as possible, and ‘memed’ it
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27/04/21
When the Happy Endings Ice Cream shop in London wanted to expand its successful ice cream business by building a new kitchen at a new site, it decided to reach out to its customers
22/03/21
News outlets and economists often mention inflation with a sense of doom, as the beginning of the end of the good times
19/03/21
NFTs - Non-Fungible-Tokens burst onto the scene when the auction house Christie’s recently sold a digital artwork
16/03/21
If we think about nature and the many things it offers us, it is hard to imagine that investing in stock-markets would have anything to do with this.
4/03/21
