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This Time, It’s Physically Different
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Campbell R. Harvey, Duke University Professor of Finance, finds that elements of this crisis may seem familiar, but it has some important differences.

Top 10 Steven Eisman Quotes from Hong Kong
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Steven Eisman delivered an hour's worth of pithy and insightful comments on the global financial crisis, the markets, and the finance industry.

The Makings of a Financial Crisis

Four tools may frame the analysis required to evaluate the likelihood of an impending crisis and that may provide us with a heads up before a financial crisis occurs.

Closing the Gender Gap Can “Grow the Cake for All”
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Gender is just the low-hanging fruit in an approach that promises to benefit society at large, says Halla Tomasdottir, founder and CEO of Sisters Capital.

4 Lessons from Iceland for Surviving a Financial Crisis
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Halla Tomasdottir cofounded Audur Capital in the year before Iceland’s massive financial crisis. She credits the survival of her firm to four key values.

Martin Wolf: How Markets Can Be Rebalanced
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Martin Wolf provides a prescription for how to reverse global economic stagnation.

Martin Wolf on Global Imbalances, Capital Flows, and Policy in Our Fragile World
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In his latest book, Martin Wolf offers a history of the financial crisis, his view of the global conditions that helped cause it, and suggestions to prevent it from happening again.

Checking Assumptions and Challenging Mindsets: A Crucial Investment Strategy
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If we truly aim to serve clients and our societies to the full, prudence guides us to check the assumptions and challenge the mindsets we instinctively rely on.

Ann Pettifor: Central Banking, State Capitalism, and the Future of the Monetary System (Video)
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Is ever-increasing sovereign debt a recipe for disaster or essential for global prosperity and stability?

Yves Mersch: Europe’s Banking Union Can Tackle the “Doom Loop”
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Yves Mersch, executive board member of the European Central Bank, says a banking union is central to a functional Eurozone — threats from southern European banks are unlikely.