Ricardo

Investment and the Recovery

Over the past few days, I have been following a debate between Barro, Krugman, Mankiw and Chin about investment and

A variety of financial market indicators got materially worse last week (bank equity vol and CDS spreads, high yield spreads,

I can’t stand Krugman on politics, but I have tremendous respect for him as an economist. I recommend this video

I rarely watch movies, even when I fly – but this trip I made an exception. I didn’t know that

Given the media reports of redundancies, it comes as no surprise that google searches for “unemployment benefits” are trending up.

Despite the fact that sequels are never as good as the original, markets have been fixated on the QE series

The August non-farm payrolls report was a bit of a disaster, and it materially increases the probability that the Fed

I read in the Saturday papers that Windsor and Wilkie — two of the three independents the ALP needs to

First, Sportsbet suspended betting on Gillard being dumped before the end of the 2011. Now, this morning, Gillard was all

One of my themes is that the NAIRU has probably moved up because of the re-regulation of the workplace. This