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One-Year Anniversary
A year to the day, I took the dazzling initiative of setting up the “It Is What It Is” blog. First and foremost, all I intended was to share with my readers an unbiased and educated opinion about the complicated world of finance. Today I would like to walk through the main topics that I have addressed over the last twelve months. Where should I start? Maybe back in the summer of 2008, when I have been invited to the Romanian Diaspora Conference and where I presented my research paper “Financial Meltdown – Effect on CEE Credit Markets”. The conclusion of my work stated that Hungary, the Baltic countries and Romania are the most vulnerable economies to the global credit crunch. We all know what happened in the following months thereafter. Continue reading ‘One-Year Anniversary’