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Shaun Richards

Shaun Richards
Shaun Richards is an independent economist who studied at the London School of Economics. His specialty was (and remains) monetary economics. He worked in the City of London for several investment banks and then on his own account over a period of 15 years. After initially working in the government bond department at Phillips and Drew Ltd. Shaun moved on into the derivatives arena with options of all types being a specialty. With his specializations of monetary economics and knowledge of derivatives, Shaun has plenty of expertise to deploy on the financial and economic crisis which has unfolded in recent years.

Recent blog posts

  • Cyprus faces an economic catastrophe even worse than that inflicted on Greece
    The last fortnight has seen some extraordinary developments in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. These have seen a small island become a problem for the euro project that is way out of kilter with its 0.2% share of its overall economic output. Also we see something that has developed relatively quickly as the Greek part of Cyprus only joined the euro on the 1st of January 2008. Oh how they must rue statements like this from back
  • The Reserve Bank of India is taking quite a gamble with India’s economic future
    The Prime Minister of the UK David Cameron has just completed a state visit to India with the objective of boosting links between his country and its former colony. He may well consider how things and times change as it is India with its current estimated 5.5% economic growth rate (which it considers to be low!) which is far exceeding the UK’s flat-lining economic growth performance. UK readers may well be saying "about time" as they read this as their leaders have spent so much effort on a sclerotic and arthritic Europe and much less on parts of the world which are booming. However my emphasis in this article is to look under the bonnet of the engine of the Indian economy as not everything is working in tune.
  • Is Japan and her economy moving forwards or towards an abyss?
    Back on the 6th of December 2012 I wrote an article for QFinance outlining the prospects for both Japan and Switzerland with respect to not only the reality of very expansionary monetary policies but in Japan's case the prospect of  "More, More, More" of this. I was concerned then about the prospect of interest rates going below zero into the world of negative interest rates. Since then there has been a considerable number of developments as the new Liberal Democratic Party government lead by Shinzo Abe has got to work.
  • To how many countries will negative interest rates spread?
    One of the subjects which has most exercised my mind over the past eighteen most has been the possible and then increasingly the probable spread of negative interest-rates. This has several different facets but they all involve savers and investors facing the prospect of having to pay to put their savings into either an institution or a bond.

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