Korn Ferry: The Other Crisis That Can't Be Ignored

By SIMON CONSTABLE

A severe affliction is blighting some of the world's largest economies. It has resulted in a record-breaking drop in business efficiency, and in turn that is harming economic growth. Analysts don’t see any quick answers.

Of course, this may sound like the terrible fallout from the coronavirus outbreak that began to grip the world earlier this year. But it’s a different matter entirely, without any of the human suffering but still plenty of economic angst. It’s about worker productivity. Read more here.

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John Batchelor Show: Lockdown for Scotland, But Golf, Fishing Allowed Soon

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Financial History: Will COVID-19 Kill Globalization

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John Batchelor Show: Scotland Remains Shutdown On A Sunny Day

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WSJ: A "Risk" ETF at the Right Time

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Launching an exchange-traded fund is always an uncertain venture. But trying to do it during a pandemic takes it to a new level.

Yet that’s what one company did: RPAR Risk Parity ETF (RPAR) made its debut on Dec. 13, right around the time Covid-19 was starting to ravage Wuhan, China. Read more here.

WSJ: What is "Priced In"?

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What do investors mean when they use the phrase “It’s priced in”? They’re talking about the way investors’ expectations move financial markets. Read more here.

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Forbes: Bitcoin Markets Hide Vast Risk-Free Profits, Study Shows

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Hundreds of millions of dollars a year in risk-free profits could be hiding in the markets for Bitcoin, experts say. 

The market for Bitcoin has grown massively in the decade or so since the cryptocurrency got invented. But that growth has not come in tandem with efficient markets where the price of one bitcoin is worth roughly the same on every cryptocurrency exchange, according to new research published recently in the Financial Analysts Journal (FAJ). Read more here.

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