In October 2023, the EU introduced its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). It requires EU companies that import high-carbon products like aluminium ...

Finance is becoming ever more quantitative. The sheer amount of data available grows exponentially and the tools to analyse it are becoming ever more ...

Yesterday, I wrote about nerds having an advantage over traditional investors. But let’s face it, we live in a world where nerds are rapidly taking control ...

I know, I am supposed to write about the weird and quirky side of economics and finance on Fridays, but while browsing the Annals of Improbable Research I ...

It is Labour Day or, to give it its official name: International Workers’ Day. So, all please raise your fists and sing with me: “Arise, ye pris’ners of ...

On the day after Liberation Day I somehow found the time to sit down with robin Powell on his Investment Show. It was a wide-ranging discussion based on the ...

It’s funny how perceptions change. Throughout most of my career, which admittedly only spans about 25 years, one persistent narrative about stocks was that ...

Most people are vastly overconfident about their abilities, their knowledge, etc. Back in the days when I was working in private banking, I used to subject ...

Generative AI is being adopted faster than any other major technology we have seen before. The St. Louis Fed reported in September 2024 that two years after ...

MARKUS GUENTNER – KONTRAPUNKT Ever since his first releases – Regensburg in 2000 and In Moll in 2001 – Markus Guentner has developed his own ...