Consensus remains euphorically optimistic about the Eurozone.
However, the first data of 2018 are worrisome. While consensus expects a strong 2018 for Europe, the advanced data begins to question the optimistic expectations. Continue reading The Crowded Trade. Is Europe Slowing Down?
“The EU, China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism” Wilbur Ross.
Protectionism only protects the Government. It does not defend obsolete industries, does not create jobs and certainly does not support growth. It only protects the government that imposes it, because the governments present themselves as saviors of the effects of something that they have no power to change. Progress and competition. As Henry George said, “what protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war”. Continue reading Tariffs Are The Worst Way To Combat Protectionism
The latest figures on the state of the global economy have led investors and economists to use the term “synchronised growth” as a signal of a healthy, robust improvement in the worlds’ economies in 2017, with almost every country in the planet improving its economic output.
As a startup founder of an early-stage technology company called VitiVision, I recently went through the challenging process of setting up a business, raising funding, refining my business model, interviewing customers, and recruiting a team.
Even as a CFA charterholder, former investment banker and VC, I realized during the process that there were many financial considerations that I wasn’t aware of or ready to make.
Startup advice that I gathered from internet research was also fragmented, legally oriented, or biased towards a VC perspective. Continue reading Startup Financing for Founders: Your Companion Checklist