Economic Data

The G20 meeting did not provide much in the way of fresh trading incentives.  However, there were a couple of developments that were noteworthy. The most important of these is the balance struck between growth and fiscal…

Blog post series, like the vuvuzela, is the new bacon; it works with everything and with John Hempton’s recent excellent series on the economics of default in the Eurozone and Edward Hugh’s recent postings on AFOE in which he pulls out…

The final revision to Q1 US GDP was disappointing in the headline and composition.  It is mitigated on the margins, for investors, by the substantial upward revision in corporate profits. Growth was revised to 2.7% from 3.0%…

It looks like regulatory reform might have some teeth from the latest updates from Josh Rosner.

Hat tip Stevie.

This week's review post is a bit late since I have been spending all my time watching the World Cup. Like last week, I will put the review in narrative form with links to last week's posts embedded. The numbers were OK but... I think the…

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…

This is a question I have been struggling with since the sovereign debt crisis began.  So let me run a little of it by you.  This may be half-baked but I would love some comments. In a perfect world, we would have full employment…

Actually, our tussle hasn’t only been with the research institutes, and the bank analysts, from time to time we have also engaged with some of the better known cases of mainstream journalism, as, for example in the case of The Economist,…

Well after a pretty hectic 48 hours being pursued all over the virtual globe by the economic and financial press, I am finally coming up for air. Those who don’t know what I am talking about might try this, or this, or this (etc). Actually…