Reproduced with permission, the full text of Dr. Delisle Worrell – former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados – July 2019 newsletter: The one question which always surfaces in response to my lecture “The time has come to permanently retire all our Caribbean currencies” (search for this title on Youtube) is about national sovereignty.…
Read More DeLisle Worrell: Sovereignty and the US DollarReproduced with permission, the full text of Dr. Delisle Worrell – former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados – June 2019 newsletter: The Time Has Come to Permanently Retire All Our Caribbean Currencies Caribbean currencies served a crucial purpose when they were first introduced, but they have now become a nuisance in today’s digitised…
Read More DeLisle Worrell: The Time Has Come to Permanently Retire All Our Caribbean CurrenciesMy Year in Review 2018 The Economic Letter This year my monthly Economic Letter became a widely-anticipated source of information and analysis of the Barbadian economy, written for ordinary citizens. In my January Letter I explained that even though the outlook for the year was dire, my pamphlet The Barbados economy: the road to prosperity offered a…
Read More DeLisle Worrell Year In Review 2018iMarketsLive recently held events in Barbados and Trinidad. From what I understand, the Barbados event had a huge attendance (several hundred, possibly thousands from what I remember hearing). This piqued my interest in iMarketsLive itself. Who is iMarketsLive and was this a potential scam in the making? In this post I will refrain from answering…
Read More Is iMarketsLive A Scam?The IMF just released their projections for Latin America and the Caribbean earlier today. Here’s what you need to know as it relates to the Caribbean (the full report is available here):
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