Recovery? What recovery?
Draghi predicted a “gradual recovery” for the 17 European Union countries that use the euro in the second half — but added that his outlook was “subject to downside risk.” […]
Can lead poisoning really be the source of violent crime?
At first it seemed preposterous. The hypothesis was so exotic that I laughed. The rise and fall of violent crime during the second half of the 20th century and first […]
Liberal Versus Conservative: A Tale Of Two Economies – Seeking Alpha
Now, we think that this perfectly describes what has happened to the US economy post 2008. There was a whopping $9 trillion hit from falling house prices to household balance […]
Trouble in the Netherlands..
The Dutch were long among Europe’s most diligent savers, and in the crisis many are holding onto their money even more tightly, which is also toxic to the economy. “One […]
US healthcare prices are the elephant in the room
US healthcare prices are the elephant in the room.
Spring cleaning at the DPE?
“Papua New Guinea’s oil and gas industry is celebrating a government decision to convert the under-performing upstream regulator (DPE) into a statutory authority. It is understood the main differences between […]
IMF lessons from the financial crisis
Oliver Blanchard, chief economist of the IMF: My generation, which was born after World War II, lived with the notion that the world was getting to be a better and […]
The Untouchables
This kind of information is absolutely crucial to understanding what caused the subprime crisis. There are people out there still willing to argue that the government somehow “forced the banks […]
Lone Dutch Hero
Mr Teulings is not the only economist in the Netherlands sceptical of austerity, but he has been the only one with any policy influence. Prominent austerity sceptics at universities and […]
An interesting note from Canaccord
NQ Mobile announced that America Movil would offer NQ Mobile’s flagship products – NQ Mobile Security, NQ Vault and NQ Family Guardian – to its 262M subscriber base located in […]