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The UBS Private Wealth Management team seems to think so. In a report titled “Franc loans might become a threat for Switzerland” the UBS economists analyze the impact of the surging EURCHF (last at 1.33, not to mention the USDCHF which is quickly going to parity), combined with the over $500 billion in Swiss franc loans lent abroad to banks and non-banks, that “The franc’s rapid appreciation …

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Investors from the Gulf and beyond are showing greater interest in Syria’s burgeoning real estate sector, which has managed to outpace GDP growth in the country over the past few years.

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Timothy R. Homan, writing for Bloomberg says GDP Probably Grew as Stimulus Took Hold The economy in the U.S. probably grew in the third quarter at the fastest pace in two years as government stimulus helped bring an end to the worst recession since the 1930s, economists said before reports this week. The world’s largest economy grew at a 3.2 percent pace from July through September after shrinking the previous four quarters, according to the median estimate of 65 economists surveyed by Bloom

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Japan’s Zombie Banking Taken To New Levels Of Lunacy Japan’s real estate and stock market bubbles burst in the early 1990’s. Since then, twenty years of non stop Government stimulus programs have failed and left Japan with the highest debt to GDP ratio in the world and two decades of lost economic growth. The costly attempt to have failed banks prop up failed companies has lead to a massive misallocation of capital and resulted in Zombie Firms and Zombie Banks. Banks were not forced

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You did not miss out, you did not escape; you’re next. Job Opportunity : The US has an immediate opening for someone to convincingly explain how an economic recovery can lead to 3% GDP growth if the consumer is unemployed. Speed Trap : Global warming is exceeding the most extreme predictions of the last IPCC report, as global carbon emissions have accelerated from a 1.1% annual increase to over 3.5% per year. Events the IPCC saw as unlikely to ever occur are already happenin

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