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• BoP Question

  
  Economics — Authority: 142
  The Korean National Pension Fund (the world’s fifth largest pension fund) is reportedly interested in purchasing UK commercial property. How might this affect the UK balance of payments in the short term and medium term? I will throw this to my students on Monday.
  3 days ago

• Will they… won’t they… will they?

  
  Economics — Authority: 142
  Ahead of President Obama’s visit to Asia, earlier this week, the Chinese central bank issued a report signalling its intention to perhaps consider allowing a more flexible exchange rate regime come into force. In one way or another, various entities from the U.S to the IMF have criticised the Chinese’ ...
  4 days ago

• Fiscal stimuli to continue till economy stabilises: Mukherjee

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said fiscal stimuli packages announced since December last year will continue even though the central bank had indicated a phased exit in its monetary policy update last month.“For the present, I maintain that the fiscal stimulus will have to ...
  1 week ago

• Exchange rates and trade: a delicate balancing act, currently out of balance!

  
  Welker's Wikinomics Blog — Authority: 125
  FT.com / Asia-Pacific – Renminbi at heart of trade imbalances . “The Americans get the toys, the Chinese get the Treasuries and we get screwed.” Thus a European Union official once characterised the pattern of Beijing accumulating US assets by selling renminbis for dollars, while nothing stood in the way of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Exchange rates, currency manipulations, and the balance of trade

  
  Welker's Wikinomics Blog — Authority: 125
  FT.com | The Economists’ Forum | Imbalances and undervalued exchange rates: Rehabilitating Keynes In our year 2 IB Economics class, we are beginning the part of our International Trade unit on exchange rates and the balance of trade . While the market for a particular currency reflects many of the same ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sugar prices and production and investment incentives

  
  Economics — Authority: 142
  World sugar prices are close to a 30 year high with values on the Chicago mercantile exchange hovering just under $30c per pound. For countries whose sugar exports account for a large proportion of their export earnings, the steep increase in world prices has brought about an improvement in their terms of trade ...
  3 weeks ago

• Henderson and Griswold are Mad About Trade

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 672
  Like EconLog’s David Henderson — here and here — I, too, am enjoying Dan Griswold’s Mad About Trade .
  4 weeks ago

• Getting Real American Foreign Policy, Debt And Health Care

  
  Gary Rumor's Anti-Entropic Continuum — Authority: 127
  Tonight I heard Chris Hedges on KPFK being interviewed about his new book ‘Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle’. He was speaking about the lack of intellectual depth in America. He was speaking about the fact that we have become a celebrity worshiping consumer culture. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Did a look see at historical trade numbers to see just how far off we are economically

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  Take a look at the following Augusts since 1999, also the YTD numbers. The trend continues off the abyss: Balance Of Payments Basis Year Month ….. Deficit ….. Export ….. Import 1999 Aug ….. (33,799) ….. 56,541 ….. 90,340 2000 Aug ….. (41,051) ….. 67,479 ….. 108,530 2001 Aug ….. (37,624) ….. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ageing North Sea Gas fields increase import dependency

  
  Economics — Authority: 142
  This article from the Times provides a timely reminder of the increasing importance of imported gas used in the gas-fired power stations that currently provide around a third of our electricity. Just a few years ago around 25% of gas was imported - now the figure is rising from countries such as Norway, Trinidad and ...
  6 weeks ago

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