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Finance / the Economy

Growing Syria Crisis will Hurt Region's Economy

Sep 04, 2012 at 17:41 | Claude Salhani

The violence in Syria now entering into its 18th month will begin to target the country’s economy in a major manner if a threat made by the opposition to target…

Why Energy is Vital to Economic Growth

Sep 04, 2012 at 17:39 | Gail Tverberg

In the beginning, the Master Economist created the Economy.  He created businesses large and small, consumers, governments with their regulation, and financial institutions of all types. And the Master Economist…

Get Ready to Buy the Bond Market

Aug 17, 2012 at 17:18 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

The Treasury bond market has just suffered one of the most horrific selloffs in recent memory, taking the yield on ten year paper up from 1.38% to an eye popping…

Bleak Growth Prospects for British Economy

Aug 09, 2012 at 16:53 | Vladimir Harman

The outlook for Britain's economic growth remains bleak in the near-term, increasing pressure on Westminster and the Bank of England to spur growth well ahead of the 2015 parliamentary elections.

Britain's Spree of Multi-Billion Incentives

Jul 19, 2012 at 17:31 | Vladimir Harman

While the 17-nation Eurozone struggles with the introduction of its permanent €500 billion financial security mechanism, Britain itself, apart from their 2008 bail-out packages, has so far initiated more than…

Faith in the Feds Ability to Hit Inflation Targets Continues to Fall

Jul 18, 2012 at 18:32 | Ed Dolan

The latest inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the CPI unchanged in June, following a 0.3 percent decrease in May. For the full year, the CPI…

Declining Economic Growth due to Low Oil Supply Growth

Jul 16, 2012 at 17:21 | Gail Tverberg

The usual assumption that economists, financial planners, and actuaries make is that future real GDP growth can be expected to be fairly similar to the average past growth rate for…

Signs that China is Heading for a Crash

Jul 11, 2012 at 16:56 | Dave Cohen

There is something perversely satisfying in watching humans screw up on a massive scale, and especially so when you've seen it coming for years now. China's time has come. They're…

Rio+20 Economic Reality Check

Jun 26, 2012 at 15:59 | Gary Hunt

The latest economic statistics are out and it is not good news.  The Federal Reserve’s latest projections for the U.S. economy show significant deterioration as previous GDP growth and…

Is 2012 the next 2008?

Jun 25, 2012 at 17:20 | Daniel J. Graeber

There is some economic hope in the new government in Greece, but if oil prices are any sort of barometer, the global economy has a long way to go before…

Why I Am Chopping My U.S. GDP Forecast to 1.5%

Jun 25, 2012 at 17:01 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

For the past two years, I have maintained a GDP growth forecast for the US of 2% a year. I have not stuck with this figure because I am stubborn,…

The Crisis of Democracy Has Reached Act Two

Jun 18, 2012 at 19:10 | Gregory R. Copley

It would be a mistake to think that the Western economic crisis is being managed toward a successful conclusion; that perhaps it can escape from disaster. Rather, most Western societies…

Oil's Role in the Global Economic Crisis

May 25, 2012 at 17:34 | The Oil Drum

This is a guest post by Lucas Chanel, Research Fellow in economics, and Thomas Spencer, Research Fellow in climate and energy policies, both at the Institute for Sustainable Development and…

Lunch with Paul Krugman

May 24, 2012 at 17:14 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

The first thing I noticed when Paul walked in was the few extra pounds and silvery tinge to his hair he acquired since I saw him last. He's clearly spending…

World Banks have the Power to save the Global Economy, if they want to

May 16, 2012 at 18:06 | David Beckworth

The global economy appears to be headed over cliff this year.  The emerging world is experiencing a significant economic slow down, the Eurozone will probably break apart in the…

Is Constant Economic Growth Possible?

May 02, 2012 at 17:50 | Gail Tverberg

If we read the financial pages, economic growth seems to be viewed as the “normal” situation to which economies inevitably return. But is it really?If we look back…

The Death of Global Integration

Apr 24, 2012 at 16:16 | Kurt Cobb

The world's elites don't want to admit it. But the kind of global village that they have insisted on building--a vast free-trade paradise run by an ever more complex and…

Noble Notion vs Reality

Apr 01, 2012 at 10:43 | Vladimir Harman

Seventy six years have passed since the first notion on taxing financial transactions first appeared under the pen of John Maynard Keynes in his study on Theory on Employment Interest…

Ecological Economics: The Battle to Preserve the Natural World

Feb 09, 2012 at 16:27 | Breakthrough Institute

In September of 1982, a group of scholars met in Stockholm intending to reform -- even to revolutionize -- the study of economics. The new ecological economists saw the economy…

Is a Reduction in Population Numbers the only Sustainable Solution?

Jan 30, 2012 at 17:32 | Gail Tverberg

In a recent post, I talked about why we may be reaching Limits to Growth of the type foretold in the 1972 book Limits to Growth. I would…

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