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Posted 14 hours ago
Well, I for one can t help thinking that it s now well time we all stopped getting carried away with the use of so many acronyms. Not only may one man s meat easily prove to be another s poiso
Posted 2 days ago
Liaquat Ahmed s Lords of Finance is somewhere between a history of the world economy between the First World War and the Great Depression and a group biography of the key central bankers of that era
Posted 2 days ago
Charlemagne, over at the Economist blog, can be uneven. But this recent post about Greece s public sector is IMO top notch. It puts the creation of Greece s huge, poorly paid, inefficient pub
Posted 4 days ago
I hadn t seen an advance release of the January German export data, when I wrote the following on Tuesday, honest injun I hadn t:Well, this is only a hypothesis. But if the hypothesis has any vali
Posted 6 days ago
According to Bundesbank President Axel Weber, Germany s economic recovery is essentially intact , and is now set to benefit from stronger demand in countries outside the euro region. I firmly
Posted 1 week ago
OK, so it s time for another chapter of the Strategic Defence Review as a Blog.Chapter 2 begins as follows:The use of force as an option is becoming more complicated. It is likely to become more dif
Tags: economy
Posted 1 week ago
Some comments or, perhaps better, some additions to Ed Hugh s piece of February 26, To Soon To Cry Victory on Latvia? by Morten Hansen, StockholmSchool of Economics in RigaThanks a lot t
Posted 1 week ago
Two interesting facts:1) After sharply negative growth last year, Russia s growth is predicted to exceed 6% this year. Okay, that s just clawing back what they lost. But it s still better tha
Tags: economy
Posted 1 week ago
In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest needWhen the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seedThere s a dyin voice within me reaching out somewhere, .It
Posted 1 week ago
Global manufacturing activity continued to expand in February, albeit at a slightly weaker pace than in January. At 55.2, down slightly from 56.1 in January, the JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI post
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