Mideast

Piggybacking off of my last post highlighting Nouriel Roubini's talk with Simon Constable, I wanted to present three videos from Roubini's appearance on NBC Europe this morning. In the earlier pre-Davos Wall Street Journal interview,…

Marshall Auerback spoke to BNN's Squeeze Play about the civil unrest in Egypt and what the unrest means for financial markets and the global economy. The most obvious global implications regard the potential for civil unrest elsewhere and…

by Marc Chandler Through the Middle East, Tunisia's recent experience is prompting policy responses. Officials seem concerned that the ease at which the Tunisia's government was toppled could embolden the disenchanted elsewhere. High…

We need one of these! Citi invented the ATM, right? I wonder if Citi is on to this?

“We shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” --John Winthrop Joe Biden is buying none of this America-as-an-empire-in-terminal-decline meme.  The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne caught up with the Vice…

Byron Wien was amazingly accurate last year in his economic predictions even though his annual list is an attempt to build a non-consensus list of likely outlier events. So, I was eager to see Byron Wien's 2010 surprises, which were…

I will have some commentary on this in a future post or an updated version of this one. Update 1600 ET: you can see my commentary in the next post here. The Surprises of 2010 The United States economy grows at a stronger than expected…

Below are two videos and an article recounting the recent social unrest in Iran. Also see Biggest protests in months take place in Iran from the FT

This comes from Bloomberg News: Estonia is set to meet its goal of adopting the euro in 2011 because of the Baltic country’s work on fulfilling fiscal requirements, European Union Economic Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said.…

The last I had heard about a prospective Gulf currency union came yesterday morning in a note by Marc Chandler who is the Chief Strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman’s FX group.  He indicated that he was more optimistic about a Gulf…