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European Debt Crisis ‘Systemic:’ Barroso
By Marlene Y. SatterThe euro came within two cents of a five-week low after European Commission President Jose Barroso said the eurozone is confronting a truly systemic crisis. Word that the European Central Bank was buying up Spanish and Italian debt helped to reverse that fall, however.
November 03, 2011
MetLife CEO Co-Leads Economic Policies Working Group at B20 MeetingMetLifes Kandarian said the B20 group urged policymakers to balance the need to prevent another financial crisis with a focused commitment to private-sector economic growth.
October 31, 2011
PIMCO’s Bill Gross: Can More Debt Solve Debt Crisis?The bond king says stimulus policies are stifling growth; on same day, OECD pleads for structural reform.
October 27, 2011
Jubilation Over Euro Debt Deal Likely to Give Way to Next Act in Greek Tragedy: News AnalysisThe outlines of the deal reached in the wee hours of Thursday morning seem clear enough, though like many a Greek tragedy the gap between appearance and reality may greatly diverge.
October 26, 2011
Economic Jump-StartThe principle of homeopathic medicine is to let like be cured by like: treat an illness by giving patients minute quantities of medicines that produce the same symptoms. But treating indigestion with a 10-course meal is not a good idea. This is why throwing borrowed funds at the current economic...
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.