Commodities are good for traders, bad for investors
Businessam StaffJuly 24, 2017
Investing in commodities is tough. Things are so tough, in fact, that many commodities traders are fleeing the business altogether.
The airline industry’s huge waste problem
Businessam StaffJuly 23, 2017
Every day, Emirates’ airline catering facility prepares 180,000 meals to service its more than 400 daily flights around
Uber could one day end up like Yahoo
Businessam StaffJuly 21, 2017
Yahoo started as a pioneer and wound up a mere holding company. Uber Technologies could be embarking on the same path. In the heady
‘America first’ may put Africa last
Businessam StaffJuly 20, 2017
In July, President Donald Trump walked out of a working session on Africa at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg. In April, Secretary of
Two to tango: Inflation management in unusual times
Businessam StaffJuly 19, 2017
Monetary and fiscal policies interact in complex ways. Yet modern institutional arrangements typically feature a strict separation of
Fintech—A brave new world for the financial sector?
Businessam StaffJuly 19, 2017
From smartphones to cloud computing, technology is rapidly changing virtually every facet of society, including communications,
Why talk of bank capital ‘floors’ is raising the roof
Businessam StaffJuly 19, 2017
Calculating how much capital banks should have is often a bone of contention between regulators and banks. While there has been
What if big oil’s bet on gas is wrong?
Businessam StaffJuly 18, 2017
Talk to a Big Oil executive these days, and the chances are they’ll steer the conversation toward gas. “In 20 years, we will not be
What Milton Friedman got right, and wrong, 50 years ago
Businessam StaffJuly 17, 2017
Paradigm shifts do not come often in economics. From Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, there is only a handful of scholars who can
Old media leads the pack breaking news on Trump
Businessam StaffJuly 17, 2017
One of the more delicious elements of the Trump-Russia scandal is that it’s being driven not by social media or television