
Last week contained very little to alter our view that a global economic downturn is likely here. While we recognize the modest, low-level improvement in a variety of indicators (see Dodging a Bullet, from a Machine Gun …), and also
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Last week contained very little to alter our view that a global economic downturn is likely here. While we recognize the modest, low-level improvement in a variety of indicators (see Dodging a Bullet, from a Machine Gun …), and also
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…A top Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategist has provided the firm’s hedge-fund clients with a particularly gloomy economic outlook and suggestions for how these traders can take advantage of the financial crisis in Europe.
In a 54-page report sent to
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By EconMatters
As the global economy is still reeling from the Great Recession, the unemployment statistics are getting staggering in the U.S. by either historical or normal standards. There are more than 2 million… Americans jobless for more than 99
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…Robert Shiller the founder of the Case-Shiller index and one of the foremost experts on the housing market, weighs in on the future of home prices and if another stimulus is needed.
Shiller believes that housing prices will drop, and
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…While Bernanke continues to deny the potential of an economic downturn and tries to convince the market that he can save the economy with his impotent monetary policy, reliable and trustworthy economists like Robert Shiller say the Fed is out
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…Nouriel Roubini of Roubini Global Economics told CNBC Thursday that he believes the chances of a double-dip recession are now more than 40 percent and policymakers have few options to stimulate the economy.
I am not a macro-economist but I
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Few macroeconomic prognosticators have been as correct as publicly at crucial moments as Yale’s Robert Shiller, whose first and second editions of the Irrational Exuberance… laid bare, with remarkable timing, the speculative bubbles forming first in the Internet-crazed stock market
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By Francesco Giavazzi, Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and author (with Alberto Alesina) of “The Future of Europe: Reform or Decline“. CEPR Research Fellow
The global macroeconomy is at a juncture; some economists argue for continued fiscal …
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John Hussman is officially warning about a double dip recession. Hussman issued a similar call in November of 2007:
Based on evidence that has always and only …been observed during or immediately prior to U.S. recessions, the U.S. economy appears
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