Global | The Property Chronicle

For FX sake, don’t be deceived by the dollar’s ‘head-fake’

by Savvas Savouri | Aug 18, 2022 | The Economist, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

Keen sport watchers will have witnessed the use of ‘head-fakes’ to deceive an unsuspecting opponent. Indeed, the phrase is used generally to describe not only using a fake move with one’s head to wrong-foot opponents, but legs, arms and even – with the head remaining...

Global real estate investment in a world of slowbalisation

by Eduardo Gorab | Aug 15, 2022 | The Analyst, zOurWriters2

A considered outlook. International integration has faced numerous challenges over the past decade. Brexit and the Trump presidency are clear examples where traditionally outward-looking trading economies turned inwards. More recently, the tragic war in Ukraine points...

Strangers on the marsh

by Martin Hole | Aug 11, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Farmer

Originally published December 2021. How uninvited guests can bring unexpected delights Farmers are apt to rail against uninvited people on their land. I am no exception, yet the farm would be a poorer place without them. ‘The 1066’ runs out from Pevensey Castle’s...

Everything was forever, until it was no more

by Chris Urwin | Aug 11, 2022 | The Analyst, zOurWriters1

In his 2005 book, Everything was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, Alexei Yurchak introduced the term ‘hypernormalisation’. The book concentrated on the circumstances that existed in the Soviet Union during the time following Stalin but...

BOE is talking economic nonsense

by Savvas Savouri | Aug 11, 2022 | The Economist, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

The Bank of England (BoE) projects the UK will ‘enter recession from Q4’. I will only accept we are heading into recession if the OBR says so when it next updates us in October. Only those close to 60 will painfully know what a real recession feels...