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PIMCO’s Bill Gross: Can More Debt Solve Debt Crisis?
By Gil WeinreichThe bond king says stimulus policies are stifling growth; on same day, OECD pleads for structural reform.
October 26, 2011
The Lessons of Starvation EconomicsThe U.S. economy was worse off before now, worse even than in the Great Depression. In 1620, when our Pilgrim Forefathers arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, per capita GDP was nearly zero. Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradfords journal of those early years, records the economic scarcity prevailing at the time:
October 17, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Turns One Month Old, Goes GlobalPresident Obama has spoken sympathetically of the leaderless protest movement, Republican candidates have criticized it, Paul Krugman speaks of the group's positive potential while rioters in Rome attest to its destructive potential...
September 22, 2011
Senate Banking's Shelby Floats Cost-Benefit BillSen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., ranking GOP member on the Senate Banking Committee, introduced a bill on Thursday that requires financial regulators, like the SEC, to provide rigorous and consistent economic analyses on new rules they propose.
September 01, 2011
Success: Iceland Exits IMF Recovery ProgramIceland on Wednesday showed nervous Europe investors along with the rest of the world that its possible to exit successfully from supervision by the International Monetary Fund.
August 29, 2011
Obama Taps Economist Alan Krueger as Council ChairmanPresident Barack Obama nominated Alan Krueger, who served as the U.S. Treasurys chief economist from 2009 to 2010, to replace Austan Goolsbee as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
August 26, 2011
The Fed’s Empty Toolbox: AnalysisToo many worrywarts have lost wealth and squandered opportunity by being 'right' about the coming economic crisis too early.
August 24, 2011
On Eve of Jackson Hole, CBO Pegs $1.3 Trillion U.S. Deficit for 2011The Congressional Budget Office projection of the 2011 shortfall represents 8.5% of GDP; suggests real GDP of 2.3% this year, improvement in jobless rate.