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Technical Default Options – US Government Shutdown Analysis (Part2)

The real challenge and issue: The US Debt default that is looming ever larger with each passing day that the US Congress, Senate and White House seem to treat as a brinkmanship fatigue challenge will have a specific default structure or process attached to it, that the rest of the world needs to get to … Continue reading Technical Default Options – US Government Shutdown Analysis (Part2)

US Treasury Yield Curve – The Shutdown Analysis (Part 1)

Today we very briefly focus on the dynamics we have observed in the US Treasury Yield Curve between two critical dates: 1. The Yield Curve at 30 September 2013 - The day before the US government shutdown officially began 2. Friday 11 October 2013, exactly 11 days into the White House, Congress and Senate stand-off … Continue reading US Treasury Yield Curve – The Shutdown Analysis (Part 1)

The Kuznets swing and the market for labour and skills

The changing way labour and skills markets operate and are being disrupted by on-line exchanges and cloud computing 'enablement' technologies

Pony ponderings…

Have you ever overheard a small debate between children related to #economics? Some at theMarketSoul (c)1999 -2013 find themselves in Spain this weekend, relaxing with family and the following conversation between young siblings are worth repeating. In some bizarre way, it relates to labour economics and the minimum wage: We had just observed a single horse … Continue reading Pony ponderings…

Dysfunctional, “Disinterested” and Disenfranchised

Let Collaboration trump the three Destructive "D" words in organisational life...

The Inverse Relationship

Cost control and the Inverse Relationship with the (Learning) Experience Curve

The Future is Collaboration

Understanding the collaborative mind-set of the future

An Ownership Revolution is required

We have been following the G20 'get those naughty multinationals in the tax tent' debates raging for a few months now, with amusement we have to add; here at theMarketSoul and have the following short thought piece to contribute to the debate. We know the 'outrage' really is all about the what the OECD calls … Continue reading An Ownership Revolution is required

Behavioural Consequences – The UK Bond Market Rigging Scandal

Thoughts on over regulation and disincentives

Transaction Cost Economics is ruining everything!!!

...or is it regulation and process not taking into consideration Transaction Cost Economics? This post is really a little rant. We just tried to contact a well known global financial services institution in London in order to enquire about the opening of a corporate bank account. We have a few why questions and cannot figure … Continue reading Transaction Cost Economics is ruining everything!!!