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– Public pension programs around the world are in financial trouble. Because of continuing increases in life expectancy, the number of eligible retirees is...
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– Public pension programs around the world are in financial trouble. Because of continuing increases in life expectancy, the number of eligible retirees is...
– Once again, all eyes are on emerging markets. Long the darlings of the global growth sweepstakes, they are being battered in early 2014....
– Bank of England Governor Mark Carney surprised his audience at a conference late last year by speculating that banking assets in London could grow to...
– The US Federal Reserve is being widely blamed for the recent eruption of volatility in emerging markets. But is the Fed just a...
– Markets can fail. But, as has been demonstrated in areas like air pollution, traffic congestion, spectrum allocation, and tobacco consumption, market mechanisms are...
– Soon after the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, I warned that unless the right policies were adopted, Japanese-style malaise – slow growth...
– The near-term outlook for the US economy has improved, owing to the sharp increase in household wealth in 2013, together with the end...
– In his pathbreaking 2005 book On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins proposed an alternative paradigm of how the human brain works. In his view, the brain...
– Financial markets and the so-called Davos consensus are in broad agreement that something close to a classic cyclical revival may finally be at...
– The US Congress has now carelessly blocked a long-awaited reform of the International Monetary Fund. That would be bad enough if it were...