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Why Europe is Moving to Backloading Austerity
This is an article that originally ran early this month at VoxEU by the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund and one of his researchers that make the case now being used in Europe for the current policy mix.
How QE works and what this means for asset prices and credit
One of the most contentious topics in America is the impact of the Federal Reserve’s policy of “Quantitative Easing” – otherwise known as ‘QE’. The Federal Reserve has committed to spending $85 billion every month buying a wide range of…
US: Declining savings and deleveraging leads to releveraging
Economic growth is good. But what we want to see is job and wage growth to complement the asset-price growth. Without this catch up on the job and income front, the economy is on an unsustainable course.
Apple: Tax gimmicks could hurt the brand
One of the striking aspects of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on Apple's aggressive tax-avoidance strategies is the way the Senators bent over backwards to declare Apple love even as they poked and prodded at…
Europe is now officially in back-loaded austerity mode
As I have ben predicting here for months, the problems in individual large European economies have become to large to bear for the prevailing European policy mix. Therefore, today, in releasing the next year's country specifici…