Governed by the gutless?
Alan Beattie’s new booklet “Who’s in Charge Here” (Amazon) is an amusing, accurate, accessible account of the current mess in global financial and tra...
Alan Beattie’s new booklet “Who’s in Charge Here” (Amazon) is an amusing, accurate, accessible account of the current mess in global financial and tra...
Good sense from a former Chair of the WTO Appellate Body. "It is in the best interest of both countries to continue negotiating on the currency issue rather th...
The prospect of a U.S.-China clash over currency controls next month when the U.S. Treasury Secretary is supposed to pronounce on China's 'currency manipulation...
In comments on the previous post, Ian Castles AO, the former Australian Statistician, notes that the World Bank and IMF create confusion in their reports by m...
The key piece of bad news, today, from Chapter 3 of the IMF World Economic Outlook Recessions that are associated with both financial crises and global downtu...
Lenin recommended it. Now Simon Johnson moves from blaming the elites to organizing against them. "We have to break up any bank that's 'too big to fail' so tha...
A development worth watching: "Economists say the SDR plan is unfeasible for now but see Beijing’s currency swap deals [with Argentina, Malaysia, Indones...