Today, this blog offers a year end assessment of three crucial issues that relate to this: the supply side in the US; China’s attempt to control its credit bubble; and the ECB’s belief that there is no deflation threat in the euro area
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Three big macro questions for 2014 | Gavyn Davies
Three big macro questions for 2014 | Gavyn Davies
Friday, December 27, 2013
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Prosecuting Grand Corruption as an International Crime - DiscussionPaper_ProsecutingGrandCorruption_EN.pdf
Prosecuting Grand Corruption as an International Crime - DiscussionPaper_ProsecutingGrandCorruption_EN.pdf
Grand corruption takes place at high levels of the political system, when “politicians and state agents entitled to make and enforce the laws in the name of the people, are misusing this authority to sustain their power, status and wealth.”
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Monday, December 23, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Coppola Comment: Weird is Normal
Coppola Comment: Weird is Normal: My latest post at Pieria: "Three years ago, Nick Rowe produced this post describing a “weird world” – a world in which the equilibr...
Friday, December 13, 2013
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
How Mandela Shifted Views on Freedom of Markets
1990 “The nationalization of the mines, banks and monopoly industries is the policy of the A.N.C., and a change or modification of our views in this regard is inconceivable,”
1992 “I came home to say: ‘Chaps, we have to choose. We either keep nationalization and get no investment, or we modify our own attitude and get investment.”
1992 “I came home to say: ‘Chaps, we have to choose. We either keep nationalization and get no investment, or we modify our own attitude and get investment.”
Monday, December 9, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Linda Yueh of the BBC talks with Stiglitz and Krugman
Missed it on BBS/World; waiting for it to be on BBC iPlayer
Five years on from the worst crash in a century, the recovery is still slow in the West. What's holding it back? Two Economics Nobel Laureates Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz tell us their predictions for when things will go back to normal, and why the US and British governments have huge challenges ahead
Five years on from the worst crash in a century, the recovery is still slow in the West. What's holding it back? Two Economics Nobel Laureates Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz tell us their predictions for when things will go back to normal, and why the US and British governments have huge challenges ahead
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
Intelligence2 Angela Merkel is Destroying Europe
BBC World News will broadcast a 45 min edit of this debate on 7th December at 09.10 and 20.10 (GMT) and on 8th December at 02.10 and 15.10 (GMT).
For the motion:
for the motion
Mehdi Hasan
Political director of the Huffington Post UK, biographer of Labour leader Ed Miliband and the author of an e-book on austerity mythsEuclid Tsakalotos
MP for the Syriza party in Greece, economic adviser to Alexis Tsipras, the party leader, and a professor of economics at the University of Athensagainst the motion
Antony Beevor
Award-winning historian of the Second World WarChristine Ockrent
Belgian-born journalist and former chief operating officer of France 24 and RFI. She was also editor in chief of the weekly news magazine L’ExpressSunday, December 1, 2013
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