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Entries Tagged as 'Economics'
Austerity + Gold Standard = Greece?
March 30th, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: Economics · Shareholdersunite elsewhere
Do we compete with China?
January 24th, 2012 · No Comments
Less than you might think..
Is 25 percent of the world economy fake?
January 7th, 2012 · No Comments
Huh?! The curious world of Austrian economics
Tags: Economics · Shareholdersunite elsewhere · Voodoo economics
Solutions for the housing market
December 30th, 2011 · No Comments
Anything in sight?
Finance and complexity
December 26th, 2011 · No Comments
Also having trouble to figure out the cheapest flight, or the best mobile phone subscription? Think that complexity is by accident or design?
Tags: Credit Crisis · Economics
There are limits to free markets
December 23rd, 2011 · No Comments
Free markets have created enormous wealth everywhere they’ve been introduced. But for free markets to provide the best outcome for society, they need rules of the game and institutions enforcing these rules. We should not close our eyes that free markets without rule enforcement have some weaknesses, especially those in finance.
Tags: Economics
A Few Lessons from Oliver Blanchard, Chief Economist of the IMF
December 22nd, 2011 · No Comments
Conclusions from the events in the year 2011. An extremely succinct and equally useful little overview. Required reading.
Germany remodeling the euro zone after itself
December 20th, 2011 · No Comments
Can it be backfiring?
Tags: Economics
Balance sheet recession primer (two for the price of one!)
December 17th, 2011 · No Comments
The best description for what is going on in the economy is a ‘balance sheet recession’. This is a situation in which asset prices have crashed (like the housing markets) leaving the balance sheets of the private sector impaired, as the debts remain. Here is analysis, policy choices, consequences and a lot more.
Japan’s enormous public debt
December 14th, 2011 · No Comments
Time to short the JGB’s?
Tags: Economics