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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...

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...

6 January 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. The obvious temptation at this time of year is to a) look backwards – especially given the “end” of a decade [depending on how you count it], and b)...

There had been hopes that the Australian economy would escape the Financial Crisis unscathed, protected by Asian demand for its abundant commodities. While it is true that Chinese demand is picking up again, the idea of Australian immunity to global...

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. 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. 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...

17 December 2009. 17 December 2009.17 December 2009. During the decade after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, China was generally seen throughout East Asia as a friendly alternative power-center to the American-led Washington-consensus that told countries in trouble they had...

15 December 2009. In a global economic scene dominated by continuing uncertainty, one of the few “sure bets” has SEEMED to be the “green tech / cleantech” – whatever you want to call it – sector.[br] 15 December 2009. In...

As the increasingly ludicrous health “care” “debate” grinds agonizingly along – “Senate Democrats said Wednesday they were not sure exactly what was in a deal the As the increasingly ludicrous health “care” “debate” grinds agonizingly along – “Senate Democrats said...

We’ve previously noted, in much greater sorrow than anger, how President Obama has seemingly gone, in less than a year, from “The One” to “Who?” – so much so that some have started calling him “Mr. Irrelevant”. We’ve previously noted,...

As the far-from-finished Dubai World drama makes clear yet again, economics and politics are two sides of the same coin – the rulers of oil-rich sister Emirate Abu Dhabi MAY help their debt-ridden brothers to the north, but if they...

27 November 2009. Is this the trigger for the next round of the financial crisis?[br]27 November 2009. Is this the trigger for the next round of the financial crisis?[br] 27 November 2009. Is this the trigger for the next round...

21 October 2009. Like me and four million others, you may have read the first ‘Freakonomics’ book and felt it was a refreshing new take full of contrarian insight. In the sequel, ‘SuperFreakonomics’, the authors have taken on global warming....

19 October 2009. Although Sovereign Wealth Funds, or SWFs, still represent a small percentage of total world finance, with the Top 12 alone holding close to $3.2 trillion in assets they are big, and you can rest assured they plan...