QE’s potential demise in the US has sent the world’s stock markets into a downward spin, providing the surest indication of where much of the benefit of this money printing exercise went. QE
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This is from the FT this morning, by Steingrímur Sigfússon: Iceland’s response to the financial crisis has been taken as a model for how a country should
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This is by Martin Wolf in the FT this morning: Last week the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was reported to have passed 400
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The Guardian had a great animation yesterday on the unburnable carbon that could now be inflating stock exchange values of a large range of quoted mining companies.
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The FT has reported this morning that: Microsoft has given the strongest signal to date of a change of heart over its new Windows 8 operating
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Larry Elliott argues this morning: Financial markets have become stimulus junkies. They crave their next fix of quantitative easing and when they don’t get it they turn
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The FT reported yesterday (and I missed it then) that: Lord Turner, the departing chairman of the Financial Services Authority has defended financing government spending by printing
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I do like this, from Olivier Blanchard and David Leigh at the IMF in a new working paper: This paper investigates the relation between growth
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I can’t pretend I live up to this, but it’s well worth reading and thinking about: Available for download here.