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• Bernanke’s Tax-Cut Flip-Flop

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  Ben Bernanke is trying to have it both ways. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, the Federal Reserve Chairman argued that he had tried as much as possible to stay away from fiscal issues that are outside the purview of the central bank. Democratic Senator Jack Reed, of  Rhode Island, asked ...
  4 days ago

• ECB stumbles out the exit

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  The European Central Bank stumbled through the exit door on Thursday with a convoluted and complicated attempt to explain to markets exactly how it was going about it. Granted it had a lot to explain – it was trying to cut back its banking sector support in a humane fashion, without giving a signal on future ...
  6 days ago

• Step aside capitalism, how about leverageism

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  Our recent post on the End of Capitalism triggered much interest and comment.  There were plenty of diverse views, as one would expect. But one thread that came out was that what we are now seeing is not true capitalism (nor, of course, is it old-style communism). Ok, but what is it? Anthony Conforti suggested in ...
  1 week ago

• The end of capitalism

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  Hard to imagine with financial markets still buoyant and newspapers full of tales of bonus greed, but there is still the possibility that captialism will end.  At least there is according to prestigious investment consultants Watson Wyatt in their latest study called “ Extreme Risks “. The firm listed the demise ...
  2 weeks ago

• The end of capitalism

  
  Global Investing — Authority: 122
  Hard to imagine with financial markets still buoyant and newspapers full of tales of bonus greed, but there is still the possibility that captialism will end.  At least there is according to prestigious investment consultants Watson Wyatt in their latest study called " Extreme Risks ". The firm listed the demise of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chicago and the toddlin’ recovery

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  It may not get as much attention as the monthly employment report or GDP figures, but the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s  gauge of the national economy has a good track record of distinguishing economic expansions from recessions. And it’s suggesting that the U.S. recovery may be wobbling. Over at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health and the older worker

  
  UK News — Authority: 471
  An interesting post on INGs new eZonomics blog points the reader to a new study on older workers and health.  The findings -- as reported in The Lancet -- dont at first glance look terribly surprising: A poor work environment and health complaints before retirement were associated with a steeper yearly increase ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health and the older worker

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  An interesting post on ING’s new eZonomics blog points the reader to a new study on older workers and health.  The findings — as reported in The Lancet — don’t at first glance look terribly surprising: A poor work environment and health complaints before retirement were associated with a steeper yearly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Big ambition for Equatorial Guinea

  
  Africa Blog — Authority: 417
  This week has seen a rush of key policymakers and business executives from Africa flocking to London. Apart from Sierra Leone , oil and gas executives have been discussing the outlook for Equatorial Guinea, a small central African state rich in oil. Equatorial Guinea made a relatively rare foray into the global ...
  3 weeks ago

• Big ambition for Equatorial Guinea

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  This week has seen a rush of key policymakers and business executives from Africa flocking to London. Apart from Sierra Leone , oil and gas executives have been discussing the outlook for Equatorial Guinea, a small central African state rich in oil. Equatorial Guinea made a relatively rare foray into the global ...
  3 weeks ago

• Crisis? What Crisis?

  
  Global Investing — Authority: 122
  The title of this post is taken from two sources. One was a headline in British tabloid, The Sun. in January 1979, when then-prime minister James Callaghan denied that strike-torn Britain was in chaos. The second was the title of a 1975 album by prog rock band Supertramp that famously showed someone sunbathing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Crisis? What Crisis?

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  The title of this post is taken from two sources. One was a headline in British tabloid, The Sun. in January 1979, when then-prime minister James Callaghan denied that strike-torn Britain was in chaos. The second was the title of a 1975 album by prog rock band Supertramp that famously showed someone ...
  3 weeks ago

• Even Tiger gets the “loss aversion” blues

  
  Left field — Authority: 500
  Even the best golfers — yes, you Tiger Woods – systematically miss the opportunity to score a “birdie” (when a golfer sinks a ball one stroke below par, or what is expected) out of fear of having a “bogey” (or taking one stroke more than par), according to a study by two University of Pennsylvania ...
  3 weeks ago

• Even Tiger gets the “loss aversion” blues

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  Even the best golfers -- yes, you Tiger Woods -- systematically miss the opportunity to score a "birdie" (when a golfer sinks a ball one stroke below par, or what is expected) out of fear of having a "bogey" (or taking one stroke more than par), according to a study by two University of Pennsylvania professors. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Former Head of U.S. Mint Goes for Gold

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  You know the American dollar is in trouble when…  There is plenty of discussion about the fate of the U.S. greenback these days, what with multi-trillion dollar rescues still flowing through the financial system. But dollar bulls might feel just a little trepidation to see Jay Johnson, former head of the U.S. mint ...
  3 weeks ago

• New German finmin wins over EU colleagues

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  New German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble  is winning over his European Union colleagues with a commitment to reduce Germany’s public deficit at his debut meeting of EU finance officials.  ”I have great confidence in colleague Schaeuble,” Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos said on arrival for the ...
  4 weeks ago

• The word on Gordon Brown from Cayman

  
  UK News — Authority: 471
  Gordon Brown is truly having a rough time. Rebuffed by the United States, International Monetary Fund and others for floating the idea of a tax on financial transactions at this weekends G20 meeting, he has now got short shrift from the Cayman Islands. McKeeva Bush , the veteran Caymanian politican who is now ...
  4 weeks ago

• The word on Gordon Brown from Cayman

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  Gordon Brown is truly having a rough time. Rebuffed by the United States, International Monetary Fund and others for floating the idea of a tax on financial transactions at this weekend’s G20 meeting, he has now got short shrift from the Cayman Islands. McKeeva Bush , the veteran Caymanian politican who is now ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Summer of LUV revisited

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  In July, Stella Dawson, Reuters’ global treasury editor, posted some thoughts on what she called the Summer of LUV , a description of a three-pronged global economic recovery based on the idea of difference patterns in the United States, Europe and Asia. Since then her LUV thesis has been picked up widely. Here is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Walking, talking ECB leading indicator

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 419
  German Bundesbank President Axel Weber is developing a reputation as a leading indicator for the European Central Bank . In the same way as a pickup in confidence can foreshadow a pickup in the economy, Weber’s comments about the direction of ECB policy this year have tended to be borne out by events. The ...
  4 weeks ago

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