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I hope they at least let my step daughter and her life partner get a slice of pepperoni before they give them the old heave ho! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2963229/ISIS-vow-Rome-throw-homosexuals-leaning-tower-PIZZA.html
Simon Fasdal, fresh from a visit to Moscow, looks at the pros and cons of Russian assets and why Russian corporate bonds, despite many risk factors, could be the choice…
Getty Images The financial markets listened to Janet Yellen’s speech on “normalising” monetary policy last Friday, shrugged, and moved on largely unaffected. It was, indeed, a dovish speech, of the…
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: What does Hillary stand for? Fly Title: Urban regeneration Rubric: As badlands get cleaned up, the poor still get pushed to the margins Location:…
The much-ballyhooed announcement video offers little hint [of who, policy-wise, Clinton is]. For the first half-minute or so, you would be excused for thinking that it was some sort of detergent commercial,…
Jean Pisani-Ferry, currently advising the French government and former director of Bruegel (the Brussels-based economic think tank) has written a heartfelt plea for more stability in the Commission’s estimates of…
Photo Credit: Tulane Public Relations || James Carville wants to be “reincarnated” as the bond market, to scare everyone — boo!I was reading this article at Reuters, and musing at…
That's UPSOGF for short.Gonna throw my daughter off the Leaning Tower of Pizza? I got three words for you and the first one isn't "I".
Last month, the global report card concluded that world economic activity was expanding at a roughly constant growth rate, with a slowdown in the US and China being offset by…
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: What does Hillary stand for? Fly Title: Growth in America Rubric: Unless wages grow, America’s economic blip could become a trend Location: ROYERSFORD, PENNSYLVANIA…
As Greece makes its payment to the IMF we hear that the country did not seek any financial aid from Russia. And while it's solved the immediate crisis, the Greek…
Slow to be getting to this, but I have to come back to such a major development. Good Jobs First, a national non-profit best known for its work on state…
Some macro textbooks (not all) are a bit like extensively modified code. You can see the structure of the original code, even after extensive software development. This can mean that,…
I write about this every now and then, because human fertility is falling faster then most demographers expect. Using the CIA Factbook for data, the present total fertility rate for…
https://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-matters-more-productivity-slowdown.html
The equilibrium real interest rate continues to lie at the heart of discussions about economic policy in the US and elsewhere. Ben Bernanke has written that the equilibrium rate, and…
The Loonie has soared and sunk in a loopy FX session dominated by US dollar moves vs the majors.
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: What does Hillary stand for? Fly Title: Economic policy in Japan Rubric: The government of Shinzo Abe is increasingly at odds with the central…
Paul Krugman writes about GE’s announcement to get out of the finance business. Why are they getting out? Financial reform from the Dodd-Frank legislation that includes “greater oversight, higher capital…
THIS week our correspondents discuss the latest developments in Greece's euro zone bail-out negotiations and Janet Yellen's testimony to Congress Comment Expiry Date: Wed, 2015-03-11 <div class="og_rss_groups"></div>