Tag: fungible

• Yahoo and Google: Democratic Responsibilities of Corporations

  Overview: China is renowned for keeping its citizens in the dark. They censor their television shows and ads. Now time travel, homosexuality, and luxurious lifestyle programs are banned from Chinese television (Time.com). They sensor Internet chat rooms to deter the conversations from issues like politics “towards [issues] such as which celebrities make the best role models.”…

  Thomas Schleusener

  September 26, 2016

  Markets, Non-Fiction

  censorship, china, corporate responsibilities, democracy, ethics, finance, fungible, fungible thoughts, google, tom schleusener, Yahoo

• Who’s got the power?

    When interest rates go up, and they will, the 50% increase across the board will topple markets, namely bond markets. Today’s interest rates are unprecedented. The lowest possible bound for an interest rate USED to be 0%. In finance terms, we call it the ZLB or the zero lower bound. Today bond yields in Germany…

  Thomas Schleusener

  August 3, 2016

  Markets, Non-Fiction

  banks, bonds, cash, clinton, ecb, fed, fed funds rate, federal reserve, ffr, financial crisis, financial institutions, fungible, interest rates, money, negative interest rates, pensions, power, rates, trump, us fed, us federal reserve, wall street, zlb