Baltics

In a recent FT Op-ed, entitled "Estonia’s recovery defies economists and academics", columnist John Dizard argued that "the “internal devaluation” policy, which means cuts in nominal costs such as wages and rents, was very…

Bloomberg's David Tweed has made a run through Europe highlighting the economy in each country as he reports this August. He has just gone to the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the videos of which I feature below. While…

One of the things I think we can safely say about the impact of the current economic crisis is that the face of Macro Economic theory will never be the same again. Quite what the macro economics of the future will look like is too early to…

Here’s the third in the series of paper abstracts submitted to the Bologna conference in 2007 and which weren’t considered sufficiently interesting to be selected for presentation. This time the topic is migration and the Baltics, and the…

That was the week that was, it’s over, let it go……. Well I don’t suppose it’s that often that people get the opportunity to enthuse about the International Monetary Fund. Normally you find people like Joseph Stiglitz, or Naomi Klein, who…

Well, if you read this report from Euractiv, citing unnamed EU Commission officials, it is: “If nothing extraordinary happens, the Commission will give its positive opinion for the accession of Estonia to the euro zone on 12 May,” an EU…

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Officials have been trying to come up with some way to avoid the weekend referendum in Iceland but it looks likely those efforts have been in vain.  Polls show that nearly three-quarters of the Iceland voters will reject the deal that…

This post was originally published at A Fistful of Euros. “Doom-mongers” - the Economist tells us - “are licking their wounds”. And why exactly are they licking their wounds? Well for two years now (apparently) they have been telling us…

I am back from a week in Mexico.  And here in DC there are still mountains of snow on the ground. Here are some links I picked up on yesterday on my way home. Cheers. Edward PS. – the article from Worthwhile Canadian Initiative is…