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July 6, 2015 Bangkok, Thailand While all eyes were on Greece this weekend, one of the largest banks in Lithuania quietly posted an awkward announcement to its customers. Interest rates are now negative. So negative, in fact, that the bank actually has to pay interest to some of its borrowers.
July 2, 2015 Singapore When I was a kid, my friends and I used to cruise around on our Huffy bikes for hours at a time. Often we’d end up on the other side of town in unfamiliar places. No helmets. No knee pads. No reflector vests. No parents. Had
July 1, 2015 Singapore Yesterday over coffee, a friend of mine leaked the news that JP Morgan’s private banking division here in Singapore is going to start charging negative interest rates. I almost fell out of my chair. He’s a successful hedge fund manager and one of their best customers.
June 30, 2015 Piraeus, Greece [Editor’s note: This letter was written by a Greek-American friend of Simon’s who is currently living near Athens.] Since my arrival into the country late May, the topic of most discussions I overhear everywhere are naturally about the debt negotiations. I’d call opinions in support
June 29, 2015 Singapore It is somewhat amusing that the word ‘crisis’ originates from Ancient Greece. It’s actually a medical term; Hippocrates wrote extensively about ‘crisis’ being the key turning point in disease progression– the time at which it either overcomes the patient, or it subsides. And though the word
June 25, 2015 Bali, Indonesia In late June 1997, eighteen years ago, this part of the world felt pretty normal. People had jobs. Inflation was fairly low. The economy was growing. Confidence was high. Life was great. For years, most of the economies across Asia had seen meteoric, credit-fueled growth.
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