According to my calculations on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve, employment inbusinessmanagement and finance during the past 20 years correlated negatively at a moderate magnitude with changes in the interbank interest rate.
One in five work in such fields as management, business services or finance, where the percentage of people working for themselves rose from 28 percent to 40 percent between 2005 and 2010.
Energy-rich Qatar is an important hub for infrastructure finance, with ambitions to develop further businessin wealth management, private equity, retail banking and insurance.