American consumers got rid of credit card debt after the crash of 2008. But this chart shows a steady re-leveraging. We’re particularly interested by people increasing their leverage after the noteworthy election of 2016. What do you think it means?
Fluctuations in the LIBOR, 1999-2018
The LIBOR, or London Inter-bank Offered Rate, is the average of what top banks in the City would charge to loan to each other. It’s a key indicator of financial markets and economic trends in general. We’ve noticed a strong recent shift in this indicator, and we believe that it will have particular impact on highly-leveraged business deals – not …
What WSJ CEO Council Attendees Think of the Near Future
Recently, our Dir. Eric Garland interviewed and was a featured speaker at the WSJ CEO Council event in Washington, D.C. During some of the breakout interviews, the WSJ did snap polls of the CEOs in attendance. We will be delving into more of these data points in the coming months, but here are some choice insights into what global CEOs …
Why a Code of Ethics makes intelligence practices more effective
In our latest white paper, we look back and review two decades of operating under the SCIP Code of Ethics – and conclude that ethics aren’t a constraint, they’re a road map to better efficacy with less risk.
Extreme poverty dropping rapidly around the world
Good news from Oxford researcher Max Roser, who lightly chided the news media to frame a headline that could suggest that more than 100,000 people left extreme poverty yesterday alone. Newspapers could have had the headline “Number of people in extreme poverty fell by 137,000 since yesterday” Every day in the last 25 years. pic.twitter.com/oKxco1oVHL — Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) …