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Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr. Doom, was the economist who predicted most of the present mess years ago. He has still something valuable to teach us. Quite a few of these things we’ve argued here before, so we agree. But we have to be careful not to throw out the child with the bathwater. Markets, especially [...]

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McKinsey did a survey on the uses of the new collaborative (so called Web 2.0) applications like blogs, podcasts, and wiki’s. Here is a quick overview of their findings, and some comments from us.

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The New York Times is not the only place with the best columist (Paul Krugman and Thomas Friedman). The Financial Times of London, an excellent newspaper, has Lionel Brittain and Martin Wolf. Here is one of Wolf’s gems, one of the best analysis of what needs to be done you’ll come across..

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Funny to see how nobody can deal with the arguments of Paul Krugman, who argues the government is the only party in the economy who can spend enough to prevent a deflationary spiral from which it is very hard to escape. Here is one attempt, but the writer, a businessman and investor, has to create [...]

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We already posted some remarkable material from Simmons and co, who argued with hard figures that oil production has peaked in 2005. Now, the International Energy Agency (IAE) is warning that next year will see an oil crunch as demand recovers. China, meanwhile, is not sitting still..

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Banks are rapidly turning into the real villains. These once masters of the universe not only had a large part in triggering this recession by gambling with other peoples money and walking a way with billions, they kept on paying large bonuses even in the midst of the wreckage and on the receiving end of [...]

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Anyone seriously thinking we don’t need radical measures to get us out of the economic slump and that talk about the seriousness of the economic situation is just scaremongering hasn’t paid attention to what’s happening in the world’s second largest economy…

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We’ve already alluded to this excellent article by Nicholas D. Kristof in our last column, but it really deserves a full mentioning.

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The editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal (otherwise an excellent newspaper) are usually politically situated to the right of Attila the Hun. That’s ok with us (live and let live), but they urgently need an economics 101.

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Often, the best first approach to a difficult situation is to list as many ‘stylized facts’ as one can think off. Here is one ‘stylized fact’ to dominate all others: no economic recovery without a functioning banking system. It’s a simple truth, there will not be many people disagreeing with it (hence it is a [...]

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