FT Alphaville- The Italian house price conundrum November 18, 2019The country’s property sector is an outlier across Europe.
- The real story behind push payments fraud November 18, 2019And why banks are failing to deal with the problem.
- Further reading November 18, 2019Child labour forces as the new schools; A Shanghai GPS mystery; Google’s totally creepy medical harvesting; plus much, much more..
- Thought for the weekend November 15, 2019Gaze at the stars, and pick winning stocks.
- Shut down the internet, student housing edition November 15, 2019A student housing scheme we reported on in June is now impacting the students.
- The Italian house price conundrum November 18, 2019
Category Archives: Choice Debt Equity
What do you do with $ 30 bn cash ?
On October 10th, it was revealed that Google is developing a self-driving car and that it had already tested it over 140,000 miles of public roads. I also learned, reading that article, that Google is sponsoring a prize for landing … Continue reading
The limits of covenants
On October 5th 2010, the Flemish business paper De Tijd published a short article entitled “Banken blijven noodlijdend technologiebedrijf Option steunen” (Banks are obliged to go on supporting the technology company Option). Option is a Belgian company manufacturing mobile modems. … Continue reading
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Conflict between shareholders and lenders: the perfect example
For years, I have been explaining to my students that there is a potential conflict of interest between the owners of a company and the people that lend money to it. Indeed, shareholders have the chance to get an upside on … Continue reading
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