What Is the Emerging Markets Bond Index (EMBI)? The emerging markets bond index (EMBI) is a benchmark index for measuring the total return performance of international government and corporate bonds issued by emerging market countries that meet specific liquidity and structural requirements. Despite their increased riskiness relative to developed markets, emerging market bonds offer several…
If you weren’t deprived of television all your childhood, you must have grown up watching far too many cartoons. There are some that scared us and others that made us cry but we always ended up knowing them by heart. Unless you’ve watched ALL the episodes, you’ve never seen what your favorite characters looked like…
Do you have a small slab? I did, but since I didn’t have a snack on hand while writing these words, so I made use of photos of cakes lying around on the net. So it gave me the idea to make you a little tasty selection to say thank you to the cakes that…
A recession’s severity is measured by its depth, diffusion and duration, or what we call the 3Ds. In terms of depth, this recession looks extreme, and will likely be the deepest in living memory. It’s also exceptionally widespread in terms of industries affected, so in terms of diffusion, as well, it’s a severe recession. Regarding…
If today children play Pokémon, consoles, toy cars or in very unhealthy playgrounds, we cannot really say that this was the case for children of previous centuries. Since there were no toy stores we had a little fun with what we had, and sometimes all we had was a rusty scythe, the arm of a…
There are people you can totally trust like your mom or the editors of Topito. But there are people to be wary of, including people who sell stuff on the internet (yes, yes, NFTs count in that). Because as we have seen with the worst products sold on Vinted and the worst products sold on…
Summary Lakshman Achuthan is the co-founder of ECRI, the Economic Cycle Research Institute. He also serves as the managing editor of ECRI-produced forecasting publications. Over nearly 30 years of analyzing business cycles, he has been regularly featured in the business and financial media, and as an invited speaker at a number of conferences. In 2004, he…
Our little candidate LR for the 2022 presidential election is one of the most surprising people with whom you never get bored. Between her great Tinder profile as a 2022 presidential candidate and the things to do to be a real Frenchman according to Valérie Pécresse, we already had a lot of fun. But Valoche…
They earn millions during their career and often we envy them a lot, but that doesn’t prevent some from ending up totally ruined, which is quite sad. So the “you don’t go with your money from your grave” may be true, but still having money helps a lot in life generally. Here are 15 examples…