Global Economic News and Analysis
by Lakshman Achuthan, Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer, ECRI Economic cycles are an inherent part of how every market-oriented economy in the world operates, and what happens around cycle turning points has always been ECRI’s primary focus. From this perspective, with the onset of the Great Recession – even before the Lehman Brothers collapse – …
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by Jeffrey Frankel, Jeff Frankel’s Weblog Needless to say, the US has a long-term debt problem. The problem is long-term both in the sense that it pertains to the next several decades rather than to this year. (Indeed, the deficit/GDP ratio has been falling since 2009, despite the weakness of the economy.) The problem is …
Continue reading “Debt Ceilings, Bombs, Cliffs and the Trillion Dollar Coin”
by Paolo Manasse, Voxeu.org All G7 economies are struggling in the post-crisis climate, but US GDP has recovered to pre-crisis levels, while the Eurozone simply hasn’t. This column portrays the global crisis as a transitory shock for the US, but as a quasi-permanent shock for Europe. The policies that are needed get the Eurozone back …
The following lecture was given by Stephanie Kelton, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City to the New America Foundation / Economic Growth Program / Economists for Peace and Security in Washington, DC, 13 November 2012. The lecture is available in two forms: a slide presentation with audio and on a …
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by Steve Fraser, History News Network “Debtpocalypse” looms. Depending on who wins out in Washington, we’re told, we will either free-fall over the fiscal cliff or take a terrifying slide to the pit at the bottom. Grim as these scenarios might seem, there is something confected about the mise-en-scène, like an un-fun Playland. After all, …