A Trade for our Times
In an environment dominated by uncertainty and low rates one strategy offers investors the potential ability to capture yield and...
Is the US Just too Big?
In the wake of one of the most polarising elections in US living memory that showed deep divides across America, it is interesting to...
On the Origins of the Political Right and Left
As the world watches the upcoming US election, fallout from the UK Brexit vote and increasingly populist, divisive and identity-based...
Mind Games - Chess vs Poker in Strategic Thinking
"Many of the things you do in poker are very useful in politics and in foreign affairs." Richard Nixon Chess is a game that requires...
Low Interest Rates Are Not Good for You
Since the Global Financial Crisis central banks have been attempting to stimulate growth through extremely low and in many cases negative...
Asylum Seekers - Mutual Benefits But Not Without its Problems
The mass migration of asylum seekers into Europe represents the largest group of displaced people since the Second World War. UNHCR...
Risk Culture in Banks
Yesterday Agile Thinking attended a seminar at KPMG on Risk Culture in Banks, presented by Professor Elisabeth Sheedy of Macquarie...
China Healthcare and Labour Costs
This week Agile Thinking completed a project for a large Chinese manufacturing firm to examine commercial opportunities in the China...
Free Trade - Policy and Outcomes
The view that free trade raises the wellbeing of economies is based on the theory of comparative advantage coined by economist David...
Indonesia in the Asian Century
Last night Agile Thinking attended a discussion between former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr and the former Indonesian Ambassador...
