Markets

23 February 2010

India and China Butt Heads in South Asia

By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.comBy David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com It’s a truism that the 21st century future of not just Asia, but the entire world, will be significantly determined by the relationship between the...

21 February 2010

Fed Rate Hike: Mysterious Political Theater

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

20 February 2010

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...

6 February 2010

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. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, Economy Watch.com The current crisis in the Eurozone...

2 February 2010

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...

31 January 2010

US Q4 2009 GDP: Should Growth Numbers Be Believed???

31 January 2009.31 January 2009. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist.  It was big news when the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis announced the US economy supposedly grew at a robust 5.7% during the fourth quarter –...

28 January 2010

2010 Crash: The March 2009 Lows Will Not Hold

28 January 2010. Juan Abdel Nasser, EconomyWatch.com. Just over 3 months ago, on the 26th October 2009, I said that stock markets were experiencing a sucker's rally. I predicted that a new bear market would set in during the first...

25 January 2010

US Supreme Court: No Campaign Finance Limits

25 January 2010. 25 January 2010.25 January 2010. David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. On January 21, the US Supreme Court, aka SCOTUS, overturned the most recent attempt to put some kind of limits on political campaign finance activities...

22 January 2010

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...

17 January 2010

The Media and the Market Place III: Burying Bad News in Plain Sight

19 January, 2010. David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. 19 January, 2010. David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com.19 January, 2010. David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. In the first part of this series, we outlined the general...

28 December 2009

Top Five Christmas Wishes for the World Economy

27 December 2009. 27 December 2009.27 December 2009. David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. While it lacked the dramatics of a 2008 that featured a Black September that will go down in history as one of the most chaotic...

22 December 2009

China US Relations Plummet With Copenhagen Climate Talks Snub

22 December 2009. David Caploe, PhD, Chief Politcal Economist, EconomyWatch.com. The Copenhagen environmental talks ended in a weak, informal “agreement” that some called the end of the UN-based world ecological process that began in the early 1990s with the Rio...

19 December 2009

Financial Regulation: UK Activism vs Laissez-Faire US

19 December 2009. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. 19 December 2009. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com.19 December 2009. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. While it wouldn’t take much to have a...