Fiscal credibility vs democracy
Last November John Hempton wrote an amusing post arguing that Ben Bernanke’s problem was that the Fed’s credibility was too high, thus creating a liquidity trap, and...
Markets Live transcript 16 May 2012
Markets Live chat transcript for the chat ending at 15:08 on 16 May 2012. Participants in this chat were: Joseph Cotterill, FT Cardiff Garcia JC Hola, rabble.JC And welcome to US Markets Live....
What price a slowing population?
Making babies is fun and good for economic growth (sexing up a lede has never been so easy). Nomura has taken a shot at calculating just how significantly population changes can hit GDP....
Only the IMF can break euro logjam
Fund must intervene to save the eurozone from itself