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Chinese policy makers told: Prepare for U.S. monetary reversal - Xinhua News Agency

BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Economists are warning policy makers in China to prepare for a reversal in U.S. monetary policy to tightening during the second half of 2008. Market analysts said they expected the U.S. Federal Reserve Board to raise ...

Reverse Henry Fordism

There are no sellers without buyers. That’s the first law of practical economics. Everyone knows this to be true, whether or not one has ever taken a course in Economics. Everyone except, apparently, a few Ph.D economists who seem to forget this rule when they are hired by the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, etc

Japan revises up 1Q GDP to 4 percent - Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan on Wednesday raised its reading for economic growth in the first quarter, driven up by a stronger-than-expected increase in capital investment. But economists warned the world's No. 2 economy could slow to a standstill later this ...

B. DeLong Has a Lot to Say About Globalization


The question being discussed by a number of economists is the reason why the following is happening: Some say it's globalization. DeLong disagrees. His argument is medium-length and worth reading, but I'll put the conclusion here for safe-keeping: Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Jou ...

Maps of Real Estate Doom; Gary North on Lew Rockwell

The Federal Reserve System's economists have assembled six maps dealing with the state of the U.S. housing market. They show where the popped bubbles were concentrated, as of the fourth quarter of 2007. The mortgage delinquency and foreclosure situation is much worse today, but the maps will not cha ...

The home equity ATM shuts down

One reason consumer spending hasn't been so smokin lately. The second sentence is a typo ... their spending and investment decisions, which is why economists watch the rate so closely

The Globalization of US Business Investment (by Don Boudreaux)

In this very careful, data-rich, and important new paper from the Dallas Fed -- entitled "The Globalization of US Business Investment" -- economists Mark Wynne and Erasmus Kersting document recent trends in US FDI (both incoming and ...

Expect gasoline to hit $1.40 a litre this summer...

TORONTO _ National average gasoline prices will top $1.40 a litre this summer and $2 ... from economists at the investment banking division of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce coincided

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