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Do you want to get absolutely legitimate access to the EU’s banking system by becoming a co-owner of a European bank to have personal and corporate accounts in your own financial institution? It’s like having a VIP card by VISA or MasterCard with huge discounts worldwide…
At the point, most representatives of the international expert community are pretty sure that the global economy has been growing confidently for some time. However, Goldman Sachs analysts claim that the global economy is starting to slow down.
In February 2018, 7 out of 10 base components of Goldman Sachs' Global Leading Indicator (GLI) dropped a bit. The bullish momentum started weakening and slowed down from 0,249% down to 0,234%. These are the weakest figures since March 2016.
Vladimir Putin has recently presented new Russian weapons. Western experts have been busy discussing them ever since. According to several observers, this move literally means that Putin has challenged Washington.
The Chinese government is planning to turn the Chinese Yuan into a global reserve currency in order to make the national economy more open to the rest of the world. This was confirmed by the People’s Bank of China.
Not so long ago, United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin promised to announce a new round of the sanctions against Russia within the next 30 days. The question is whether the United States will manage to root against Putin once again before March 18th?
In practice, there can be multiple Brexit scenarios, i.e. the scenarios of how the United Kingdom will exit the European Union. Experts say that almost any scenario will damage the British economy to some extent. Moreover, there will be some economic damage to both the UK, the USA, and the EU.
According to two major investment banks – Citigroup and JPMorgan, the days of cheap money and low interest rates are nearly gone after almost 10 years since the last global crisis. They warn us that major central banks around the globe (including the ECB, for example) are going to start toughening their monetary policies in 2018 at the fastest pace in 12 years.
It seems like people have been obsessed with cryptocurrencies. While loading up on them like crazy, they seem to have forgotten that everything has a price. When it comes to mining cryptocurrencies, this is all about the growing deficit of electricity. The thing is that all those mining farms consume tons of energy. Maintaining that cryptocurrency infrastructure is rather energy-consuming as well since all of that requires really powerful and capacious hardware, which consumes big amounts of electricity.
Since the Brexit referendum that took place in the United Kingdom last year, European banks have already withdrawn from the UK as much as 350 billion euros. That’s reported to be the official stats provided by the European Union, The Financial Times reports.