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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 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 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. 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. 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...

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...