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Featured Articles Energy Brothers in Energy Monetary Policy Diverging Global Monetary Policies Plod On Economic Conditions That's One Tough Dollar, but Oddly Down for September Employment Remember September (for Jobs Data) Featured Articles Energy Move Over Oil, It's LNG During this year’s G7 summit, Japan announced its vision of creating a LNG market to meet increasing energy demand. Natural resource markets are a foundation for trade and economic development. What is less well known is the close link between the natural resource markets and the currency markets. Read more Japan Does Japan's Democracy Have Room for Women and Children? A wave of political activism has animated East Asian politics: Taiwan’s Sunflower Student Movement in 2014, South Korean 2015 street protests against President Park’s new labour law, and protests in Japan in 2015 against Prime Minister Abe’s security bills. Youth activism was common to all these movements. Facing challenges in a stagnating economy, the younger generations have developed a deeper political awareness from a sense of marginalisation from political decision-making processes. Read more Health Care Employer Insurance Premium Growth - Still a Problem Upward pressure on US consumer prices is stemming from two elements. Rents and medical services. Due to the differences in the composition of the basket of goods and services that are used, the core personal consumption deflator, which the Fed targets, typically lags behind core CPI. Read more Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. Wendell Philips He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. James A. Garfield The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted. Edmund Burke In the 2016 presidential race, candidates from both major parties are looking for ways to address inequality. Partly, they must do so because seven years after the 2008 crash, many Americans still are Read more Every year seems like an accelerated version of the previous one. Every year we think we have reached the peak and then following year comes, paling everything before it. Will 2016 be the same? Every Read more Latin America has quickly become the new go-to spot for investors, with even the country of China having pledged a sum of $250 billion within the next ten years. Colombia is one of many markets, which Read more Oilprice.com recently spoke with Carl Larry, Director of Oil and Gas at Frost & Sullivan, a consultancy that conducts research on oil and gas markets, to get his thoughts on the state of oil in 2016. Read more There are two ways of viewing the fact that a record 24 national teams are competing to lift the Henri Delaunay Cup at Euro 2016 in France. Some regard UEFA’s decision to include nearly half of its 55 Read more In 2016, Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party (CPV) will convene its 12th congress to select new leaders for itself and the country it rules. With new leaders will come new policies, but those who hope Read more Newswire Notice: Pace Meeting of the Board of Directors - Notice of Virtual Meeting of Open Session on May 20, 2020 Ad Experts Release New Service That Helps Real Estate Agents Grow Their Business Hands-Free Ascent Vision Technologies Delivers Latest X-MADIS CUAS Systems to US DoD Customer 4me Recognized as Rising Star in 2020 ISG Report What's an Investment Portfolio? 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David Smith Investigative Journalist British Brexit was a Victory for Far Right Politics Hillary Plays Dangerous Game with Bill’s Legacy Betting Markets ‘Trump’ the Polls when it comes to Presidential Forecasting View all contributors QFINANCE is a unique collaboration of more than 300 of the world’s leading practitioners and visionaries in finance and financial management, covering key aspects of finance including risk and cash-flow management, operations, macro issues, regulation, auditing, and raising capital. QFinance EconomyWatch Contributor Russia Counting the Cost of Adventure in Ukraine Huge Obstacles in $400 Billion Russia China Gas Deal New, More Transparent, Contracts To End Africa’s ‘Resource Curse’? View all contributors Nouriel Roubini, a.k.a. “Doctor Doom”, is chairman of Roubini Global Economics and professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Roubini has been consistently cited as one of the world’s top global thinkers. 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