13/9/18: Shares Buybacks Swallow much of Trump’s Corporate Tax ‘Reforms’
A recent post from the U.S. Fed looked at how companies with large holdings of cash abroad have used those funds following the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017…
1/10/18: BRIC Manufacturing PMI dips down in 3Q 2018
BRIC Manufacturing PMIs turned south in 3Q 2018 in line with Global trend, but leading that trend to the downside. Per latest data through September 2018:Russia Manufacturing PMI averaged miserly 49.0…
2/10/18: Government Debt per Employed Person
We often see Government debt expressed in reference to GDP or in per capita terms. However, carry capacity of sovereign debt depends not as much on the number of people…
3/10/18: Dumping Ice bags into Overheating Reactor: Bonds & Stocks Bubbles
"Supply shortages, induced mainly by central bank quantitative easing have been a major factor driving asset markets, in our opinion. Not all, but a big part." So forget the 'not…
A Budget Line (budget constraints)
The budget line is an important component when analysing consumer behaviour. The budget line illustrates all the possible combinations of two goods that can be purchased at given prices…
Indifference curve analysis
The aim of indifference curve analysis is to analyse how a consumer chooses between two goods to get maximum satisfaction. Or how a consumer makes choice from his limited resources…
Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
Utility refers to the amount of satisfaction a person gets from consumption of a certain item.and marginal utility refers to the addition made to total utility, we get after…
Consumer Behaviour
A consumer is someone who makes demands in the market. If there is no consumer then there would be no producer. If we, as a consumer won't make demand…
Factors affecting Elasticity
Elastic means flexible demand and Inelastic means Fixed demand. · Availability of substitutes · Postponement of consumption · Proportion of expenditure (needles: inelastic; TV: elastic) · Nature of the commodity (necessity vs. luxury) · Different…
What is Elasticity?
Till now we only discussed the direction of the changes in price and quantities demanded. But here we will answer the question “By how much”. and This how much is…
