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Adam Tooze considered where the global financial crisis has left us, how it has affected politics and geopolitics, and what the prospects are for the world to manage a future crisis.
Are we stuck in a low-growth, low-demand environment for the foreseeable future? Lord Adair Turner discusses whether governments and central banks have anything left in their arsenal.
Jason Voss, CFA, assesses three factors to understand the current bill of health for emerging market fixed-income investments.
The eurozone needs to address its lingering debt crisis before it loses the trust of international investors.
Just in time for the holidays, the US Federal Reserve released its quarterly Z.1 report. Recently retitled Financial Accounts of the United States (formerly Flow of Funds), the new data have provided a new, and perhaps final, chapter in the… READ MORE ›
Tomáš Sedláček interweaves psychology, philosophy, and pop culture to examine the strengths and weaknesses of global economics.
The route to recovery in Europe is so long that there will be plenty of growth opportunities to be captured by investors along the way, says David Kelly, CFA.
Arnab Das, managing director of research and investment strategy at Roubini Global Economics, argues the most important parallel issues are the distribution between creditors and debtors and the balance between future and present economic activity.
Tomáš Sedláček, chief macroeconomic strategist at CSOB Bank, believes that our problem is not lack of growth but too much of it. He stated, “It is like owning a car that explodes when it stops.”
Nobel laureate Robert C. Merton challenged traditional models used by investors to measure sovereign and financial system credit risk and instead proposes an alternative framework.