A critical look at the risk measurement tool that has repeatedly, and severely, hurt the financial worldThe credit crisis that erupted in 2007 is by no means the only shock to have shaken the financial markets throughout the years. But these market tribulations seem to wreak more havoc than ever...

A critical look at the risk measurement tool that has repeatedly hurt the financial world The Number That Killed Us finally tells the "greatest story never told": how a mysterious financial risk measurement model has ruled the world for the past two decades and how it has repeatedly, and...

The €215 billion lent to Greece by her Eurozone siblings are likely among the very cheapest funding ever enjoyed by a sovereign borrower. Not only would the effective net interest rate so far be negative, but actually more so than those faced by essentially all countries lucky enough to have...

If there is one indelibly recurring myth surrounding the infamous bailout loans received by Greece for the last seven years it's that the money went overwhelmingly to foreign bankers (who owned allegedly massive Greek government bond portfolios). This ever so popular argument attempts to fan the...

No. The infamous bailout loans granted by Europe and the IMF to Greece since 2010 did not create austerity in the country. We use official statistics to show that government spending and deficits did generally not go down in the bailout period versus other previous periods in “modern” Greece...