Author : David Caploe

 20 January 2011.  20 January 2011. If Chinese President Hu gets tired of being lectured to by President Obama and the rest of the US corporate / government elite,...

18 January 2011 We have consistently discussed how India's economic development strategy differs from those of China, Japan, and most of the rest of East Asia: 18 January 2011...

17 January 2011. 17 January 2011. With the eyes of the world on the dramatic events in Tunisia, we start this week with an analysis of the global oil...

Just before Christmas, we ran a long analysis of China's complex housing situation, noting that,  despite a literal over-abundance of housing in general, and luxury dwellings in particular, residential...

11 January 2011. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. Ever since the regime of Ronald Reagan, American political discourse has been in steep decline. His allegedly "sunny"...

    4 January 2011. A US economy stuck in neutral, with persistent and growing unemployment. An on-going financial crisis in Europe. Everybody knows 2010 has been an economic...

21 December 2010. How many flats in China are sitting empty?  It's been said many times that China is experiencing a nationwide urban property price bubble. Some months ago, the...

On a sultry June evening in 2007, more than 100 people camped out at the offices of Emaar, a prestigious Dubai property developer, to ensure that they would land...

16 December 2010 Vinod Khosla, the billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, was already among the world’s richest men when he invested a few years ago in...

   2 December 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com.  For a long time, we have strenuously objected to calling the Black September 2008 global financial meltdown...