ricardian ambivalence

A long way from Geneva

I don’t think we will be paying negative bond rates on our debt anytime soon: Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s

I am a stock guy (life cycle consumption etc) so i worry about wealth effects. I found this post by

The May non-farm payrolls report was +69k (mkt + 150k), defying the balance of the partial indicators, which had suggested

About 80,000 jobs below expectations and the 3rd negative miss in a row: Employers created a paltry 69,000 jobs last

Markets sure are unusual at the moment. The price action is testing all sorts of assumptions – and has busted

The ongoing move to gas as a source of cheap energy is a great hope for the US over the

The sell-side /blogger reaction to Fed Dudley’s recent speech suggested that the Fed had made an unexpectedly hawkish move. Tim

It is reassuring that members of the Labor party have rediscovered the notion of innocent until proven guilty. I await

The Canberra consensus says that prior to the Hawke-Keating era, Australia’s economic policy was a wasteland of protective tariffs, over-regulation

I understand that the Labor party and the unions have a close relationship but who exactly is the “we” in

The weakness of the Chinese and European (flash May) PMIs tells an interesting Macro story. With a bit of imagination,

The monthly DEEWR benefits data lags the unemployment rate, and is highly seasonal. Mark the graph does a good job