Showing posts with label IMF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IMF. Show all posts
23 October 2012

Is the US About to Default?

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There was just too much going on in the IMF report I blogged about yesterday to cover it all. However, one of the most interesting paragr...
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22 October 2012

IMF Study Supports Public Money Creation

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My post earlier this month reporting that Adair Turner, one of the front runners for the post of Governer of the Bank of England, has sug...
24 September 2012

US Set to Buy up the Pyramids

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When Keynes wanted to come up with an example of activity that enables an economy to flourish by requiring the investment of huge amounts of...
17 October 2011

Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world, than to imagine the end of capitalism?

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This is the title of a new book published in Czech and it encapsulates an important thought given the extraordinary contortions we are witne...
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15 August 2011

Strange Fruit

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I think it was Arthur Scargill who said that if people start attacking you, you are obviously shaking the right tree. The interesting thing ...
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8 August 2011

Christine Lagarde: Is She the Man for the Job?

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The extraordinary thing about Christine Lagarde is not that she is a woman, but that she is a lawyer. In spite of holding the second highe...
16 May 2011

Something rotten?

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To the plethora of three-letter acronyms that infest the discussion of finance has been added another. Alongside the CDO and the CDS we now ...
6 February 2010

Markets Beware Greeks Bearing Gilts

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As Greece stumbles its way towards the humiliation of an IMF loan it is the way this latest economic tragedy is being reported that causes m...
23 January 2010

The Tripartite Hegemony

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It is clear that the problems facing the world economy have their origin in the financial system and that the curbs on bank powers proposed ...
9 April 2009

Plus ca change . . .

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Now the dust has settled, what are we to make of the G20 conference? Such high hopes; so little real achievement. When the whole process beg...
18 May 2007

Banking on each other

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No wonder that Venezuelan president Chavez is public enemy no. 1 for the Bush administration. Not only is he smart enough to have figured ou...