Remember a few years back when the term decoupling was all the rage? Emerging markets and Europe were supposedly going to decouple from the US economy's troubles and continue growing while the US suffered through its real estate bubble collapse. Well that didn't work out so well with most every market in the world eventually succumbing to the undertow of [...]
“According to ABI the value of total loans issued, 1.467 billion euros, represented a 2.5% drop on the December value and was largely the result of the continuing recession in Italy. “Meanwhile, for the current year ABI researchers said their forecasts of a 0.6% contraction in the economy would likely be revised for the worse after a higher than expected [...]
Suzy Khimm has a post at the Washington Post's Wonkblog that says if you're worried about the fiscal cliff, you are by definition a Keynesian: The reason the fiscal cliff is such a threat to 2013′s economy isn’t that it’s too little deficit reduction — it’s that it’s too much all at once, totaling about $720 billion, or 5.1 percent of GDP [...]
Thinking Things Over June 4, 2012 Volume II, Number 22: There’s a Brighter Future Ahead….but When? By John L. Chapman, Ph.D. Washington, D.C. In a world of pure theory, stock and bond prices rise and fall according to the fundamentals of market reality, and exclusively so. The strength of profits and free cash flow, sustainability of a firm’s competitive advantages, technological [...]
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