Not the end of free market capitalism, but the end of the unregulated version
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’ve already alluded to this excellent article by Nicholas D. Kristof in our last column, but it really deserves a full mentioning.
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 […]
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: […]