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Global Rebalancing and sustainable recovery
on Oct 1, 2009Let me just momentarily dip back into the blogosphere with this link to Edward Hugh’s post…… The G20 and Why Export Dependency And Global Imbalances MatterEdward touches up on several recurring themes here in my blog, many of which I touched as...
Auf weider sehen
on May 28, 2009A year into my blog, I find a need to break. What a year it has been covering world economics. From the threat of inflation to its wild swing into deflation, events have led to a point where no economic doctrine was safe from intense scrutiny and que...
Ironies in economic behaviour
on May 21, 2009I listed the following economic truisms last year. I repost them here, as a reminder to both individuals in regulating their future behaviour, and to policymakers designing tweaks in the economic system.1. Quest for everything at the cheapest cost...
Rise of the dragon currency
on May 14, 2009Nouriel Roibini is warning how financial power is currently transferring at a rapid pace towards China, as a result of US need to fund its deficit.China is a creditor country with large current account surpluses, a small budget deficit, much lower pu...
Where to look for green shoots of recovery
on May 7, 2009In a regular business recession, businesses that over-expanded whittle down their excess inventory, and reinvest capital in more profitable lines. Once inventories are at a more sustainable level and capital redeployed to more appropriate endeavors,...
The curse of the big, publicly-held company
on Apr 30, 2009The bigger the company, the more lavish its executive perks. And the bigger the company, the more likely it will be a publicly-held company.Just about every corporate malfeasance seems to have been committed by those at the top of the publicly-held t...