The money network:

The money network:

Why crowdfunding threatens traditional bank lending

China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

Up to 40% of China’s $1.7 trillion LGFV loans are at high risk of default. What’s a panicking Beijing to do?

December 2007

Is it goodbye to the dollar?


There’s a lot to be said for a monetary union for north America.


Top models and pop icons are asking to be paid in euros. New York’s Fifth Avenue is full of Europeans snapping up cheap goods. At Buffalo there are six-hour queues of cars full of Canadian consumers on weekend shopping trips to the US, and analysts predict that the UAE or Qatar will sever their dollar peg within the year. The bottom, it seems, has fallen out of the dollar, and with US firms across all sectors suffering from a looming recession, to quote one head of an international bank it’s...


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