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                                    This is part of a series examining not just the principal causes, but, even more importantly, the appropriate solutions to the island’s economic crisis. 
This week we return to policy analysis and the somewhat contentious issue of foreign investment....                            
            
                
                    DATE: Mar 04, 2019
                 
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                                    Welcome back. We pick up Bermuda’s policymaking trail having just left the deliberations of our Financial Policy Council in 2017.
In this particular meeting, our panel of external experts has advised the Bermuda Government in clear and unequivocal te...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Feb 14, 2019
                 
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                                    So, where were we? Ah, yes, our “fundamental macroeconomic external imbalance”.
If a nation’s savings exceeds its investment, as ours obviously does, the country has “excess savings”, which it then exports to other countries to fund their investment ...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Feb 07, 2019
                 
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                        Robert Stubbs 
                    
                            
         
         
     
 	
    	
                    
        
                    
                    
            
            
                                    While our politicians spent the new year attempting to mitigate the embarrassment of their longstanding, adamant denials of Bermuda’s indubitable status as a tax haven being now well and truly exposed as a farce, much of the rest of the island were a...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 31, 2019
                 
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Robert Stubbs