OPINION/EDITORIAL

Netherlands Most Crypto Obsessed Country in the World, Study Finds

October 27, 2022 Oakley Lowe Netherlands ranks top across the globe, with 1.4 million monthly searches for the most popular cryptocurrencies – equivalent to 8.2% of its population.  Turkey ranks second and Germany ranks third most crypto-obsessed.  The United States had the highest total number of cryptocurrency searches at 6.5 […]

Market Liquidity Strains Signal Heightened Global Financial Stability Risk

Credit: phongphan5922/iStock by Getty Images Chart of the Week Financial markets October 27, 2022/IMFBlog Fabio Cortes, Glenn Gottselig, Shoko Ikarashi, Aki Yokoyama Liquidity is a key measure of how well financial markets are working. It refers to how easily assets can be bought or sold—and when it dries up, it […]

FG’s Oil Revenue Problem; A Recipe for Sustained Fiscal Troubles

October 27, 2022/United Capital Research The recently released Public Presentation of the 2023 Budget proposal revealed that Nigeria generated a total of N3.7tn revenue between Jan–Aug 2022 compared to the pro-rated sum of N5.5tn expected for the period. This implies that Nigeria was only able to generate 66.7% of the […]