Why literature matters in debate about race and immigrants
Dec 01, 2016 01:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The people who voted for Donald Trump did so for a variety of reasons, but chief among them was the sense of their having been economically abandoned for several decades. Trump has promised to restore their economic...
Mexicans are migrating, just not across the US border
Dec 01, 2016 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
Mexican migration to the U.S. is in decline. The Pew Hispanic Research Center has found that since 2009, more than one million native-born Mexicans living in the U.S. returned to Mexico. But many other Mexicans never...
ECB would react to “shocks” caused by the Italian referendum
Nov 30, 2016 12:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
ECB meeting on 8th December will be largely influenced by developments in Italys politics as we head into Italian referendum scheduled to take place on 4th December. At its semi-annual financial stability report last week,...
Nov 30, 2016 09:39 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The Aussie plummeted today after the mixed housing related data. AUDUSD is dropped a little at 0.7465 after the Australian Bureau of Statistics earlier reported thatbuilding approvals dropped 12.6% in October, confounding...
Nov 30, 2016 07:46 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
From last two weeks, although the rallies have hit 49.17 levels, theprice behavior have remained well between 46.27 and 45.54 (i.e. price range between the last weeks open to this weeks open) The break above 46.30...
The lack of justice for journalists' sources is a catastrophe for democracy
Nov 29, 2016 17:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Ten long years ago, Robert Norman was getting on with his demanding job as a prison officer at the high security Belmarsh Prison in London. Then in 2006 he became an undercover whistle-blower, revealing hidden details of...
India's golden quest to tackle 'black money' and the lessons from a century ago
Nov 29, 2016 17:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Economy
The Indian government has been trying to reduce its citizens demand for imported gold through a number of means over the last few years. This is part of a wider crack down on currency used in the black market, that...
Canadians are feeling increasingly powerless amid economic struggles and rising inequality
Another election, another round of Nigel Farage hype, with no lessons learned