BANGKOK, Jan 16 (TNA) - A World Bank economist expressed optimism that the Thai government’s new stimulus programme announced early this week would help cushion the impact of the world economic slowdown, but said that more measures are needed to improve the country’s competitiveness.
The government’s mid-year package of Bt115 billion (US$3.3 billion) was approved by [...]
THE “Fat One”, Spain’s record-breaking El Gordo lottery, made it an especially cheery Christmas in Soria. The €2.1 billion ($3 billion) prize draw was worth an average of €2,500 for each of the city’s inhabitants. As a stimulus package, that beats the Spanish government’s by a factor of ten.For the million Spanish families who saw a wage-earner lose their job in 2008, Christmas was a
“Aiuto cara, mi si è sgonfiato il P.I.L.!!”
La notizia è di questi giorni. La Gran Bretagna, patria dei valenti cronisti dell’Economist, tanto bravi a buttar fango su di noi e sui governanti che scegliamo (con copertine e articoli di dubbio gusto), se non sono in linea con le loro idee, si è vista sorpassare dall’Italia [...]
GROUCHO MARX got it wrong when he said that he didn’t care to belong to any club that would have him as a member. There are in fact few things in life so wounding to self-esteem as to be excluded from a gathering where you think you rightly belong. In an attempt to avoid such a fate, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, has cast dignity aside and importuned all and sundry wi
The IMF’s chief economist has warned that the global financial crisis is set to worsen and that the situation will not improve until 2010, a report said Saturday.
Olivier Blanchard also warned that the institution does not have the funds to solve every economic problem.
“The worst is yet to come,” Blanchard said in an interview with [...]
The Issue: Peter Schiff is the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, a Connecticut-based investment firm and was the lone economic expert who predicted the United States economic downturn. Prior to the downturn he was considered to be a minority opinion, but since the latest developments in the US Economy, he has gained significant credibility [...]
LIMA, Nov 19 - India and China’s ability to resist the global economic slowdown will greatly influence whether the crisis drags the world into a depression, a top Pacific Rim trade community economist said Tuesday. “If China and India come through this crisis with very good growth rates that would be very important for the rise of global economy,” Bob Buckle told reporters on the eve of a su
Clare’s college, one of Cambridge University’s oldest seats of learning, recently made a very interesting move. They borrowed £15m for 40 years to invest in stocks. They are planning to invest in equities, betting markets are the best investments in the long term.
Is it a good move?
It is a very common idea that equities [...]
Wow, I found an economist with a brain! One that suggests what we need most are more buyers encouraged to buy, not buying bonds, not bailing out the banks, but buyers to buy real estate.A plan to rebuild the housing marketBy Allan Meltzer(go to link for entire article)The US Congress and the Bush administration are considering ways to prevent mortgage defaults. Attractive for humanitarian reasons
Seguro que ante la situación de crisis en que vivimos, muchos se están preguntando: “¿cuanto va a durar la Recesión en España?”. Pues bien, el semanario The Economist publica un informe especial sobre nuestro país en el que hacen unas previsiones que deberían sonrojar a “ese colectivo de personas caracterizado por tener un cerebro que sufre una suave desaceleración”. Sin duda es pa
The Economist October 18 2008Editor:John Micklethwait Publisher:The Economist Group Limited Company Language: English Issn: 0013-0613 The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its
Según el diario ' The Economist ', España se librará de la recesión por los pelines. Se espera que el país tenga un crecimiento del 0,3%, al contrario de lo que piensa el FMI, que auguraba datos negativos, estimaba un crecimiento negativo de -0'2%. Australia, Canadá y Suiza, los menos afectados por la crisis.No cantemos victoria tan pronto, ya que a pesar de lo positivo de lanoticia del sema
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Two big events will frame the year ahead: America’s presidential election and the summer Olympic games in Beijing. The race for the White House will be a marathon, from the front-loaded primary season in January and February to the general election [...]
The Economist magazine has an excellent series of articles on the upcoming election, the issues we face and how the opposing candidates have pledged to handle them. And how does a group of economists rate Bush's tenure? It ain't pretty. Listed below are links to each of the major articles:IntroductionAn inconvenient truth John McCain and Barack ObamaThe battle of hope and experience The Econom
The Stepcase Lifehack blog pulls out a trusted tome, Deirdre McCloskey’s Economical Writing, and extracts some wisdom from an accomplished economics professor on writing tight sentences that are thrifty with words (unlike, say, this sentence). Here’s one bit especially relevant for online writers: Always ask "So what?†… Your reader's time is very valuable, and
The cover of the September 27th issue of The Economist eloquently captures the current state of the economy and awful credit crisis. .Oh Fuck indeed!!! .Check out more unusual and offensive magazine cover stories I wrote about at Trend Hunter magazine below.Political Magazine Satire - Sarah Palin Parodied on New Yorker Cover (GALLERY)(TREND HUNTER) VP candidate Sarah Palin is being roasted once ag
I rely on the Economist news magazine for a rational, intelligent - if at times slightly stodgy - conservative perspective. At best, it forces me to venture outside of my left-liberal comfort zone and consider another perspective. At worst, I may sometimes think that they are completely full of shit.In the latest issue, the Economist presented a poll of ... well, economists. The result may su
Western financial crisis will hit Asian earnings: economist
He reckons regional stocks may pick up only in 2H 2009
By EMILYN YAP
(SINGAPORE) The financial crisis in the West will hit earnings in Asia, and regional equity markets may only pick up in the second half of 2009, a private equity conference heard yesterday.
But despite this, prospects [...]
(Via The Atlantic). The Economist is proposing planetary-scale changes to combat global warming. This terraforming could involve removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or injecting sulphur into the upper atmosphere to block out some of the sun’s energy to cool the planet. While I’m sure this would require a great percentage of the world’s GDP [...]
The Economist 13 -19 September 2008 Editor:John Micklethwait Publisher:The Economist Group Limited Company Language: English Issn: 0013-0613 The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, it
Na edição que chega às bancas nesta sexta-feira, a revista britânica "The Economist" destaca o crescimento da classe média no Brasil, que hoje ultrapassa metade da população.
"The West must be bolder in its response to a newly assertive Russia." This is the proposition made for the upcoming The Economist debate series, setting off on 9 September. The opposite argument holds that this position erroneous by Western misperceptions of Russia, based on renewed reminiscences of an increasingly distant Cold War era. Speaking for the pro side is Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of t
EconomistEurope shores up the Russian-Georgian ceasefire agreementEconomist, UK - Sep 9, 2008Russia is sending a flotilla headed by one of its largest warships, Peter the Great, a nuclear-powered cruiser, to the Caribbean for joint manoeuvres with ...
This week extract from my favorite magazine focus on two subject I like a lot.
The first subject is Islamic Banking with two great articles. The first provides a quick back-ground history to better understand where it comes from and a quick glimpse at how faith-based finance work. The second focus on the struggle to reconcile [...]
A Life against the Grain: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Economist (Paperback)By Julian Simon
Buy new: $29.95$29.9510 used and new from $21.52 Customer Rating: First tagged “depression” by Donald M. Bishop Customer [...]
The ASEAN region is famous for its tourism, sandy beaches and colourful temples. But a new trend is emerging over the past few years where occidentals get on the plane not to enjoy hot sand and clear blue water - at least not in the first place - but to get treated here. Many hospitals [...]
LONDON -- The global financial crisis is set to get worse, with a large U.S. bank likely to collapse in the next few months, a former International Monetary Fund chief economist has warned, the BBC reports on its Web site Tuesday.Kenneth Rogoff said that despite hopes that the U.S. economy had turned the corner, it was "not out of the woods.""I would even go further to say "the worst is to come',"
The Economist Magazine - August, 2008English | PDF | 151 Pages | 5.22 MBThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which
The Indonesian economy in 2009 is expected to be in a better shape than in 2008, an economist said.A number of economic institutions, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF,) had projected the Indonesian economy to pick up next year, Sunarsip of the Fiscal Policy Board at the Finance Ministry said on Saturday."The United States is already aware of the mistakes in their financial system. Th
Despite its obvious concerns about inflation, the Fed is widely expected to leave rates unchanged at Tuesday's policy meeting. The weak housing market, rising unemployment, and ongoing stress in the credit markets will prevent the Fed from aggressively trying to tame inflation for the foreseeable future.Indeed, while futures traders are pricing in high odds of a rate hike before year-end, Beth Ann
It can be difficult to create a name for yourself these days. One of the surest way to do that is to stir the pot & go for controversy. It ensures that a few people will listen to you & the ones who feel attacks will respond. And there is only one thing worse than [...]
The Economist, August 2, 2008The Beijing Olympics: China's dash for freedomChina's rise is a cause for celebration -- but despite the Beijing Olympics, not because of them. World trade: So near and yet so farTrade ministers have come too close to a deal to let the Doha round die. Housing bill: A hair of the dogCongress has been too lenient on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Turkey's constitutional cou
There are few economists who have become both so reviled, and admired as Marx. Indeed some would even question whether Marx deserves to be called an economist; others would prefer terms like 'bungling and failed revolutionary'. However, there are certainly few economists who read so widely and wrote so much as Marx. Whether you love or loathe Marx, we cannot deny his writings had profound influenc
Prominent Indonesian economist Sjahrir died in Singapore at 8:50 a.m. on Monday (7:50 a.m in Jakarta) after being treated at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore almost two weeks for lung cancer. He was 63. Born in Kudus in Central Java, Sjahrir had been a member of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's advisory council on the economy since April 11, 2007. His remains are laid in state at his re
With the recent “credit crisis”, many are losing faith in the markets. Should we start panicking and invest in our good safe bonds and blue-chips as in the past, or should we look back on our former presumptions on the financial black-swan of 2007?
This week extract from my Economist reading is time for pruning article. [...]
The Economist is one of the world's most respected publications, founded in September 1843. It is edited in London, but aims at being a global magazine. Half of its 1.3 million copies per issue are sold in North America. It is owned 50% by the Financial Times (a sub division of Pearson PLC) and 50% by private shareholders including members of the Rothschild Family.It is not focused just on economi
From QuamnetFUZHOU, China (MNI) - China's economy is in its most difficult position in five years, a senior official with the government statistics agency said Friday, warning of a looming slowdown on the back of shrinking external demand and rising costs.National Bureau of Statistics chief economist Yao Jingyuan said that GDP will likely grow at around 10 pct this year - higher than the average 9
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by “The Economist Newspaper Ltd” and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North [...]
An Australian economist says Viet Nam has become one of the best performing economies in South-East Asia, averaging growth of between 8 and 9% every year.
Since Viet Nam embraced the policy of “doi moi”, or economic openness, more than a decade ago, millions have been lifted out of poverty, economist Ray Mallon told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
The roads are now full of new
The Economist, 5th July 2008English | PDF | 163 Pages | 2.5MBThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold i
Los españoles “se están dando cuenta tarde de la magnitud de sus problemas económicos“, pese a que su presidente, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, “siga negando que existan”, publica el semanario británico The Economist.
En su número de esta semana, la revista aborda la situación económica de España en un artículo titulado irónicamente “¿Crisis? ¿Qué crisi
It took me a wee bit more time than usual to read the Economist this week. Many reasons to that, some of them being work related, others being personal - those who know me well will understand easily…
This week extract from my Economist reading is the trouble with pensions article. It is on the lengthy [...]
After paging through transcripts of the first two days of testimony in the Seattle v. Oklahoma City Rat Bastards case, I realized I was in the wrong business. Actually, I’m probably overqualified to be Mayor of Seattle or even an expert sports economist.The transcripts detail how on Day 1 of the trial Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels threw up all over himself during his bumbling testimony. Day 2 broug
Difficile non soffermarsi sull’editoriale di questa settimana dell’Economist. Titolo: «Iraq start to fix itself», ovvero, «L’Iraq comincia a stabilizzarsi».
Una presa di posizione iniqua da parte di quello che, almeno a nostro parere, rimane uno dei...
(continua su RDM20)
The Economist (20 de Outubro de 2007) resume um estudo da consultoria McKinsey acerca das chaves do êxito dos países que obtêm melhores resultados na informação PISA.O dinheiro não é decisivo. A Austrália, que triplicou a despesa por aluno desde 1970, não consegue alcançar Singapura, que gasta menos que a maioria dos países. Os Estados Unidos ocupam o terceiro lugar inferior da classifi
I have briefly read through some of the articles from the latest issue of the Economist. These are the 3 articles I would like to share with my readers:The trouble with pensions:While defined benefit (DB) pension schemes were dominating in the past, defined contribution (DC) plans are more popular now. Employers bear the investment risk for DB plans, but now, the employee have to bear the risk.
Key Points from The Economist : The Global Economic Outlook presentation :-The current US recession will be much deeper than in 1991 or 2001. Yet Asia’s growth will slow by less than in previous US recessions: it is now less dependent on US demand.Asia is increasingly important as the main engine of global growth. The beginning of the end for the dollar as the main reserve currency.Rapid growth
As I tend to quote and link to The Economist on a regular basis, I decided to create a specific serie where I would “limit” myself to one article per week. The one I preferred of course. That way you will enjoy a quick extract of my Economist reading and will know when to expect [...]
The Economist 2006 Full Edition《经济学人》杂志 2006 合集 PDF | English | 98MBThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, abo
Richard Berner, Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. economist, said yesterday at a public finance and pension fund conference in Illinois that the United States is in a mild recession. Berner added that the U.S. housing crisis still has “a long way to go” because of excess supply and caution by both lenders and potential homebuyers. [...]
Bank Indonesia (the central bank/BI) is likely to raise its key rate by 25-50 basis points at the meeting of its board of governors on Thursday as the on-month inflation rate in May reached 1.41 percent, an economist said. "I think the BI Rate will be raised by 25-50 basis points this month in view of the high inflation rate last month," Fauzi Ihzan of PT Standard Chartered Bank said on Tuesday.
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an [...]
The Economist May 31 2008PDF | English | 2.3 MBThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North Americ
The Economist 2005 Full Edition《经济学人》杂志 2005 合集 PDF | English | 98MBThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, abo
India's inflation rate may be revised to 10 per cent from the latest estimate of 7.82 per cent as data for prices of different commodities is updated, London-based publication The Economist has said."Delays in data collection in India can mean big revisions to inflation... The latest wholesale price rate inflation rate might therefore be pushed up to 9-10 per cent," noted The Economist in its co
The Economist 2004 Full Edition《经济学人》杂志 2004 合集 PDF | English | 98MBThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, abo
The IEA’s chief economist yesterday warned that cap-and-trade policy alone will not deliver the cuts in emissions desired by the EU. His concern is that energy consumption is inelastic – people may simply pay a higher carbon price rather than consuming less energy.
He is right, of course, that that the EU ETS alone is not [...]
The Economist 2003 Full Edition《经济学人》杂志 2003 合集 PDF | English | 98MBThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, abo
The EconomistEstudio señala que Chile es el país más pacífico de América LatinaA nivel sudamericano, Colombia es el que ofrece los indicadores más altos de violencia interna, ocupando el puesto 130, de 140.LONDRES, mayo 20 .- Chile ocupa el puesto 19 entre los páises más tranquilos del mundo, liderando esta condición en América Latina, según una clasificación que compara las naciones e
Madrid, 22 de mayo, 2008. Aunque Estados Unidos se encuentra muy cerca de una recesión y el crecimiento en otras economías desarrolladas se ha ralentizado, la inflación sigue una tendencia alcista. Jean-Claude Trichet, presidente del Banco Central Europeo, dio esta semana una advertencia acerca de los errores de los años 70, cuando dejaron libre la inflación resultando en un alto coste para
The Economist 2002 Full Edition《经济学人》杂志 2002 合集 PDF | English | 98MBThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, abo
The Economist 2001 Full Edition《经济学人》杂志 2001 合集 PDF | English | 98MBThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, abo
Jeff Rubin has made some attention-grabbing predictions of late, including one that oil prices will reach $225 a barrel within four years and another that interest rates soon will head upward in Canada. Rubin doesn't have a lot of company on both calls. But the chief economist and strategist at CIBC World Markets defended his views yesterday at a lunch with clients in Montreal. Inflation is o
Emerging Markets: Lessons for Business Success and the Outlook for Different Markets (The Economist Series)# Author:Nenad Pacek, Danny Thorniley# Publisher: Bloomberg Press # Number Of Pages: 224 # Publication Date: 2004-09-01 # ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1861974086 # ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781861974082 Highly recomended for "western" managers and anyone interested as to how emerging markets really work,
Pocket World in Figures 2007(Economist)# Author:"Economist"# Publisher: Economist Books # Number Of Pages: 240 # Publication Date: 2006-09-07 # ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1861978251 # ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781861978257 This small book is packed full with vital economic statistics, which came from all the corners of the world. From standard of living to birth and death rates, it covered close to two hundr
Brands and Branding (The Economist Series) 品牌指南(经济学人系列)# Author: Rita Clifton, John Simmons, Sameena Ahmad, The Economist# Publisher: Economist Books # Number Of Pages: 288 pages# Publisher: Bloomberg Press; 2nd ed. edition (February 2004)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 1576601471# ISBN-13: 978-1576601471Although the balance sheet may not even put a value on it, a company's
Another day, another loss of academic star power for one of Florida's state universities. UF economics professor David Figlio, also a research associate at the NY-based National Bureau of Economic Research, is leaving the Gainesville public research institution after a...
Senior Planning and Investment Ministry economist Vo Tri Thanh is upbeat about Viet Nam’s economy despite the high inflation, anticipated lower growth and the global credit crunch.
"Issues of high inflation and market instability have challenged several developing countries," he told Viet Nam News yesterday.
"If the administrators follow overall macro-economic policies that prop
