Tax Havens – Key takeaways from the book: Treasure Islands

Let’s start with Starbucks. Starbucks argues that its customers do not buy coffee from Starbucks only for having coffee; they buy it because they want the “Starbucks experience”. The company says that every cup of coffee is sold on back of the “Starbucks” brand, and therefore, a portion of the profit made from every cup
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The Smartest Guys in the Room – Key Takeaways from book

“The smartest guys in the room” is about Enron, a company that filed the biggest bankruptcy case in the history of the United States on December 2nd, 2001. Some of the key takeaways from the book are as follows: Smartest Guys in the room – Key takeaways We focus a lot on the ambitions and
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Book review: A Plea to the Retail Investors

Bob Rice, author of “The Alternative Answer”, is Managing Partner of Tangent Capital and is known to viewers of Bloomberg TV as their alternative investments editor. Much of The Alternative Answer will convey familiar information to those who have followed the quest for alpha over the years. Those working in investment industry will hardly encounter with any sense of
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Book review: Europe’s Unfinished Currency. The Political Economics of the Euro

Thomas Mayer argues persuasively that Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) could work if the member states would embrace a new EMU architecture. Even though all past monetary unions of sovereign states have failed, Mayer remains hopeful that the EMU can develop a more robust framework and contribute to the historical work of European unification.