Many people think that a slowdown to say 4% growth in China would be unimaginable. But how about minus 4%?   By István Zsoldos and Péter Simon Vargha It has always been a question of when, not if. China’s per capita GDP has grown almost 6 fold in the past 20 years, a compound annual…

From Before Cyprus to After Dijsselbloem? The Eurogroup leader whose name starts with a D showed how to become a swearword from obscurity in a single day. But was he actually onto something important? A modest proposal. OK boys and girls, it is time to ask some tough questions. What should the…

So here we are: the Gold Standard was discredited in the 1930s and the paper money regime by the recent economic crisis (and also the inflationary periods in many countries), so the world is looking for new (or old) solutions.  Hence the renewed interest in the Gold Standard. Of course it does not…