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Free Exchange
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/
Correspondents for The Economist discuss and debate the latest economic and financial news.
- Added on: Feb 3rd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: rogermcshane
- Listed in: Global Economics US Economics
- Tags: finance trade Wall Street economics crisis the economist
Recent Posts
Wayward on their carry concern?
What's really behind the deficit hawkishness? MY WORKING theory of the Obama administration's recent deficit tough talk has been that the powers that be believe any new, deficit-funded stimulative measure would b...
A big Fed mess
Please stop patting Ben Bernanke on the back ALAN BLINDER opens a new Washington Post column with what I believe is the conventional wisdom:The Federal Reserve's performance in this long-running financial and eco...
Quote of the day
Would you take investment advice from this man? WHEN last we checked in on Bill Gross, he was writing about, um, death, before telling us all that assets have way over-performed over the past 50 years. In his latest ...
Beyond the peg
China's trade surplus is about more than exchange rates IN JUST about any analysis of the persistent trade imbalance between China and America, China's currency policy is sure to feature as the principle villain....
Did the president save the auto industry?
An unlikely explanation for high auto prices EARLIER this week, I pointed to a surprising increase in vehicle prices in the Consumer Price Index and noted that the rise seemed to be due to Cash for Clunkers, which de...
Link exchange
The best of the rest of the economics web TODAY'S recommended economics writing:• Metropolitan budgets are on the brink of catastrophe. (New Republic) • Income and poverty in American counties, nicely m...
