media watch

This was my latest media appearance from last Friday. I spoke to Howard Green about the G-20 summit in Seoul with David Weidner of Market Watch. You can see some of my pre-meeting comments here. While I thought US Treasury Secretary…

I spoke to the Russian TV broadcaster Russia Today and the popular Indian website DNA India late last week about the escalating rhetoric surrounding the forex market. The video from RT is not available yet but the link to the DNA post is…

Here is a good segment I did this past Friday on BNN founding anchor Howard Green's "Headline" show. The other guest was Philip Coggan, capital markets editor at the Economist in London. Here's what we had to say. Record low…

The latest interview with Max Keiser this past Friday talking a bit about credit writedowns, real estate and trying to avoid another leg down. The video conversation is in three parts. Enjoy.

With a pressing unemployment problem depressing growth in the US, former president Clinton plans to demonstrate his five-year old public service community can create jobs in America while still implementing projects that achieve results…

GDP Growth Charts via EconomPic EconomPic: Great Recession was Worse than Thought EconomPic: GDP Growth Slows... Spike in Business Investment Spanish Unemployment La EPA constata que el paro no deja de subir; 20,09% de…

PBS' Paul Solman takes another look at Spain's economic woes, which include a 20 percent unemployment rate. In the Web extra above, he talks to British economist Edward Hugh, a long-time resident of Barcelona, about Span's underground…

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…

Max and Stacy talk about Twitter hashtag manipulation, elections in Reykjavik and the BP oil spill for some good fun.  Later in the episode I come on and ruin it with a little doom and gloom.  Take a look. OK, the BP stuff isn't…

In 2007, a credit crisis centred in the US subprime market began. It metastasised into a monstrosity of epic proportions that led to the worst and only synchronized global downturn since the Great Depression three-quarters of a century ago.…