Category Archives: Economics

World’s Fastest & Slowest Growing Economies

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

Here’s our update of last November’s post of the world’s fastest and slowest growing economies ranked by 2013 GDP growth.  The growth estimates and nominal GDP data are from the April IMF World Economic Outlook database. We still note, the … Continue reading →

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Global Economic Growth – The Economist

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

In recent years poor countries have enjoyed impressive improvements in GDP per person. But in the rich world they have hardly grown at all. (click here if video is not observable)

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Stocks Better Than Alternatives – Economist

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

The Economist sums the melt up best: It is tempting to attribute the strength of the Dow to optimism about the American economy. Tempting, but wrong. Studies have shown almost no correlation between GDP growth and equity returns. Indeed, the … Continue reading →

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Stanley Fischer to Replace Bernanke?

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

The Washington Post thinks it is a possibility. Dylan Matthews’ excellent piece – run don’t walk to read — speculates on the  former:  1) MIT/University of Chicago professor;  2)  Ben Bernanke Ph.D. adviser;  2)  World Bank chief economist;  3)  IMF … Continue reading →

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Berlusconi’s incredible comeback – Economist

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

As Italy heads into an tightly-fought election battle between three very different candidates, we ask who stands a chance of winning and what Italy will need from its next leader – EconomistMagazine (click here if video is not observable)

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Stratfor: France’s Economic Challenges in 2013

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

Year to date France’s 10-year sovereign spread is 10 bps tighter to the German Bund and the CAC 40 stock index is almost almost 4 percent.  No worries, mate.   Not yet. Stratfor Europe analyst Adriano Bosoni discusses France’s challenge to … Continue reading →

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Crisis, Contagion, and the Need for a New Paradigm

Posted on January 19, 2013 by

In his lecture at the Latsis Symposium 2012 “Economics on the Move” in Zurich,  Nobel Laureate Joe Stiglitz nails the fundamental problem and crisis of modern macroeconomics, which failed to predict the financial crisis. If you say…what is good science … Continue reading →

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Lagarde on debt ceiling, bank liquidity and paths to growth

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde talks to Chrystia Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters Consumer News, about the challenges of regulatory arbitrage, the need to promote job-based economic growth and the dire dangers from the U.S. debt ceiling fight.   – ReutersTV … Continue reading →

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America’s Bubble Dependent Economy

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

Interesting chart (which we marked up) from the JEC of the U.S. Congress illustrating household net worth as a percent personal income.   If that doesn’t look like a head and shoulders formation in the making, nothing does! The second chart … Continue reading →

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The Changing American Economy

Posted on December 25, 2012 by

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