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Nuno Gomes
An informative podcast focused on the economy, businesses, markets, finance, technology, and much more. It is hosted by Nuno Gomes, an active Economics student in the United Kingdom, pursuing this personal project to apprise and collaborate with like-minded individuals who seek insights through reports on occurring topics within the realms of the financial and economic markets. Make sure to contact my socials for further discussions and collaborations! @nuno.hfg - Instagran @nuno.hfg - LinkedIn nuno.freitasgomes@gmail.com - Gmail
Hello, this is Nuno Gomes for the Academic Observer on Economics, Business and Finance and for this episode I talk about Zimbabwe Gold. Any expectations to come?
Chapters-00:00 Intro01:04 Move over, GDP02:18 USA as prime "Real Estate Location"04:50 Extra Arguments05:58 HOW to measure "Richness"?07:45 China leads in GDP! (adj. for PPP)08:06 USA ranks lower per capita. Cases for Norway, Ireland, Singapore09:23 Inaccuracies 11:39 Mean, Median, Modal Wealth12:20 Example: A "Monegasque" & "Impoverished" society 14:33 Mean vs Median Wealth: Where is the USA?Correction: Not mentioning for Income, Rather Wealth15:15 London is NOT like the UK! 17:05 Perspectives of Subnational Wealth17:55 "My country is rich, why aren't I?"18:30 Poorest live better in Slovenia than the USA19:30 Thank you
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Hello, this is Nuno Gomes for the Academic Observer on Economics, Business and Finance and for this episode I talk about demystifying Asia's anti-democratic rhetorics. Check out other audio content on Spotify (previous 25 episodes posted there!)Intro 00:00Asian politics are linked to Confucian beliefs 01:00Case for Singapore 01:40Case for China 02:52Extension: Democratic "Minben"? 06:17Asia and Hierarchy 07:53Modernisation to revamp the System 09:50Asia and Personalism 10:56Decay of Personalism 13:57Asia and Authority 14:38Asia and One-Party Dominance 16:36General Acceptance of One-Party Rule 18:35Concluding Remarks: Defending Asia-Style Democracy 19:55
Euro (and Cents): A Battle with debt. With an honorary case study of the Greeks and Yanis Varoufakis in the Eurozone.
Hello, this is Nuno Gomes for the Academic Observer on Economics, Business and Finance and for this episode I talk about Javier Milei and his impact to the Argentine economy. Check out other audio content on Spotify (previous 19 episodes shared there!)Brussels Buyers Club: EU running Cartels to procure Critical Minerals:https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vB2... US Hegemony: The Soft Underbelly of the Dollar Empire:https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DYS...
Hello, this is Nuno Gomes for the Academic Observer on Economics, Business and Finance and for this episode I talk about Geo-economics as the new study of how Geo-politics and economics interact in international relations. 00:00 Intro 00:08 Origins of Geo-Econ 00:54 A "Thesis" to back it up 02:31 Human Behaviour Constraints 03:58 The Case for Chad (French vs Chinese Influences) 06:34 Belt & Road as the Flagship of Geo-Econ 10:06 Concerns (Neo-Colonialism?) 10:49Richard Youngs 11:56 The US "Chessboard" of Geo-Econ 12:48Concluding & Thank You The other 18 episodes are available on Spotify, exclusively on audio. Search our @AcademicObserverPod on other platforms!
Hello, this is Nuno Gomes for the Academic Observer on Economics, Business and Finance and for this episode I talk about the Chinese Economic Model for Growth and Investment: The Savings Dilemma.
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Hello, this is Nuno Gomes for the Academic Observer on Economics, Business and Finance and for this episode I talk about the proposed Buyer's Club to procure for Critical Minerals (CRMs). I thank Cullen Hendrix's work for the Peterson Institute of International Economics.
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Hello, this is Nuno Gomes for the Academic Observer on Economics, Business and Finance and for this episode I want to tackle the hot-topic question of the global currency supremacy. Does the reigning USD have a soft underbelly?
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Hello, this is Nuno Gomes for the Academic Observer on Economics, Business and Finance and for this episode I want to tackle the Phillips Curve Dilemma. Some points mentioned during the episode:
Minute 00:15: Introducing the topic of Central Bank's operations and the relevance of economist William Phillips
Minute 03:21: Jerome Powell recordings in the European Central Bank Forum (29th of June, 2022)
Minute 03:48: Looking at the existing doubts of mainstream Keynesian approaches (Phillips Curve Model) used by the Federal Reserve, and critics opinion on the matter.Â
Minute 09:42: Asking "Is the Phillips Curve actually dead", backed by economists Steve Keen and Phil Dobbie
Minute 14:22: Closing remarksÂ
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The Turkish Lira currently stands as the worst performing currency against the USD for the second year straight. Just this last month it has lost almost 40% of its value and the USDTRY seems to hit all time highs day-in-day-out. Although Turkey "only" faces a 20% inflation rate, the Central Bank has been cutting interest rates against general conventional wisdom. It is important to note that this meltdown in the Lira is not necessarily caused by a broad based USD Emerging Market matter, it is actually faulted by Turkey´s own idiosyncratic characteristics. This problem sets to possibly cause a Contagion (Spillover) effect that could spread not only to the EU, but the rest of the world.Â
Credit for this episode: The excellent Weston Nakamura from Real Vision Finance! Â
Hello, this is Nuno Gomes for the Academic Observer on Economics, Business and Finance and for this episode I want to tackle the global energy crisis. Some points mentioned during the episode:
Minute 01:02: Genesis of UK´s gas crisis: Gas dependancy? Lack of energy-supply diversity? Brexit? Renewable energy unreliability?
Minute 03:36: Global Markets for Energy Commodities: Record high numbers for Natural Gas TTFs, WTI, Brent and Dubai Crude Oil prices, Coal prices too.
Minute 07:11: France Nuclear Approach: Right or wrong? Nuclear fusion and breeder-reactor programme by ITER could supply free energy for all!
Minute 09:07: Answering the question: How can one supply progressively larger amounts of energy output to meet world demand in a sustainable manner? Decarbonisation techniques for non-renewable energy sources e.g. Deep-sea $1.7 billion "Carbon Capture & Storage" CCS to turn oil extraction carbon-neutral, and more ideas!
Minute 12:22: Recorded talk with social scientist Holly Jean Buck, her take on Carbon Revolution. Debunking Malthusian perspectives and explaining today's Shaky decarbonisation outcomes
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The year 2020 closed with the worst economic crisis in Latin American history. As economic growth during the quinquennium prior to the current crisis was close to zero, Latin America is immersed in a new lost decade, 2015-2024, which may be worse than that of the 1980s. As the continent embraces the poorest performance of any developing region in the world in the past three decades, we focus our attention on Brazil´s current economic outlook. Is it as bad as people perceive it to be? Are there valid grounds to accept an institutional crisis in the country?Â
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For this episode, we cover one of the hottest topics in recent times, the shifting towards the digitalization of currencies, as we see the ECB initializing its investigative phase for a new electronic euro, and the Chinese Central bank CBDC also pursuing a new digital Yuen. We also mention other technological developments on-demand, such as the rising crave for NFT´s and other Blockchain projects practiced by multinational corporations all around the world.Â
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For years now, the Federal Reserve has tried to normalize itself from the worrisome Federal balance sheet, which has reached the $8 Trillion mark. Despite the targets for normalization, no real policymaking strategy seems to support this objective. The Fed is closer to Japanification, as the federal rates remain near the zero percent mark, and the reserve keeps pilling up. Could the recent Trickle-Up economic implementations by the Biden administration permanently trap the Fed?Â
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In today's episode, China and their influences in South America and the Caribbean are presented and discussed. With specific interest in the overviews of Development Finance between both regions, the Covid-19 aid, their trading operations, which includes talking Foreign Direct Investment and active merges and acquisitions, and also Chinese-led multilateral initiatives in LAC, charged by the Chinese Infrastructure Investment Bank and the notorious Belt and Road Initiative program. For further collaboration or enquiries, make sure to check out my socials:
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In this forth episode, Inflation will be tackled. We extensively discuss about its impact on a national and sectoral level, from Argentina to Kenya, from Automobiles to the American bond yields. The second part of the episode will focus more on the preoccupations rising from the Fed’s actions in the United States. To contact me for further collaborations or enquiries, make sure to check out my socials:
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This episode was recorded on the 18th of May, as Bitcoin prices plunged from the new expectations set by business magnate Elon Musk. This is an opinion-based episode, where his influences over the crypto space will be discussed. For any future enquiries or collaborations, make sure to contact my socials at:
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In this second episode the flopped April Job Report predictions by US analysts will be discussed, followed by an evaluation on Biden’s aggressive fiscal and monetary stimulus plans. And from that, we will opine whether or not Biden’s interferences caused this significant distress within the American labour market for the months ahead of us.
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In todays episode we discuss the empty apartments and plummeting rents in the world's most expensive housing market to extend our thought on how the exodus out of Hong Kong could change its real-estate scene in 2021.Â
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