Fed Rate Hike: Mysterious Political Theater


By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com

By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com

During Alan Greenspan’s long tenure as head of the Federal Reserve, people were used to not understanding his arcanely-worded, mystically Delphic, pronouncements on interest-rate policy –

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Geopolitics: 10 Global Geopolitical Predictions


25 February 2010. These 10 Global Geopolitical Predictions and the Strategic Outlook summary that preceeds them have been provided by our partners over at OilPrice.com, publishers of the Market Intelligence Report. Previously only available to certain Governments, Military and Intelligence Agencies, OilPrice.com analysts are now providing ‘open-source’ geopolitical intelligence to help focus on macro issues facing the world’s political economy.

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Eurozone Crisis: Will PIGS Get A Blanket ???


By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist

, Economy Watch.com The current crisis in the Eurozone is not particularly easy to understand, but not impossible either.

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Of Davos, Doodles and Double-Down Indians


2 February 2009. By Keith Timimi, EconomyWatch.com. Reading through the reports from Davos (I was too busy running EconomyWatch.com to attend – oh yes, and my invite was strangely lost in the mail) there were a few trends the struck me that I think inform us of some of the key issues of the year ahead. [br]

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US Housing Market: Pending Home Resales Rocket 6.7 Per Cent


San Diego, California, 4 June 2009. The green shots of recovery seem to be taking hold with increasing numbers of data points showing either slowing declines or bottom-of-the-cycle increases. Since the USHousing Market dragged the whole world into recession, it needs to turn around to support a recovery, however tepid that might be.

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