Richard Fisher discusses US financial policy that impacts on the world. Article He imagines the world economy as a naval battle. 
Contrarian Dallas Fed President Talks at the Harvard Club
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The Euro Crisis: How Important is Its Story to the Event
Robert Schiller is the author of “Irrational Exubernance,” and a distinguished
professor of economics at Yale University in the US.
He wonders why, Greece, a country of 11 million people (only slightly larger than New York City) was on the brink of bringing the world economy down. Here’s his intriguing answer. Article
Is Business Volleyed World-Wide to Get “Tax Efficiency?”
Tax evasion is illegal but tax avoidance isn’t. Some US congressional leaders are now determined to change the status of tax avoidance. This has implications in all countries that help transfer transactions. Article
ECB Says Cost of New Frankfurt Skyscraper Soars by 41%
The European Central Bank said the cost of its new Frankfurt headquarters will jump by as much as 41 percent due to higher prices for construction materials and “a number of unforeseen challenges.”
The 185-meter twin-towered skyscraper will now cost as much as 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion), up to 350 million euros more than the initial price of 850 million euros, the ECB said in a statement yesterday. The central bank’s relocation to the new premises remains scheduled for 2014, it said. Previously, the ECB said it would move into its new headquarters in early 2014, with construction due for completion at the end of 2013…article
The Hidden Costs of Being a Woman
Earlier this year, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation made a surprising 
announcement: Women, it turns out, pay higher interest rates on credit cards than men do. It’s just a half-point difference, but the study points out that over a lifetime, women could pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars more to borrow money than men…article
High Speed Trading? Should It Be Confined to Las Vegas?
The Economics of Breast Photography
Many breasts were bared as William and Kate visited the Solomon Islands. The photographer said he would have earned 1.6 million dollars if he’d been allo
wed to market Kate’s breasts turned out to be off limits. The photographer who captured them said he could have made 1.6 million dollars if he had been allowed to continue to sell them.
Kate’s breasts. Article
Why Women Entrepreneurs Make Less Than Men
What’s that old expression? “It takes money to make money?”
Well, women may not be making as much money as men because they are not getting as much, according to Women-Owned Businesses in the 21st Century, a report by the US Department of Commerce, which found that women are more likely to self-finance and less likely to have outside investors …more
Most Influential Woman in Investment Banking: The shortlist
US Banks Targeted in Money Laundering Investigation
Us investigators have gone after HSBC and Standard Chartered, but now they are taking aim at JP Morgan Chase, President Obama’s favorite bank. Article
