‘Footsie pushes above 5,000’ but it will not last
byUpdate: As the Footsie pushes above 5,000, we bring this post forwards and refer readers to Why is the FTSE going up? Hopes for a…
Economics
Lord Timon’s Purse
byIn Lord Timon’s Purse, Sean Corrigan explores the causes of the forty US banking failures of 2009 and sets out some of the basics…
FT.com / Global Economy – Goldman chief hits at ‘useless’ banking
byLloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, has attacked some investment banking products as socially useless and said that the controversy over bankers’ pay…
Material Evidence
byIn the 1 September 2009 edition of Material Evidence, Sean Corrigan explains why the stock market is rising and why the appearance of prosperity…
Barack Obama accused of making ‘Depression’ mistakes – Telegraph
byBarack Obama is committing the same mistakes made by policymakers during the Great Depression, according to a new study endorsed by Nobel laureate James…
Now it’s looking like V for victory over recession – Times Online
byResponding to an article in The Times, Steven Baker indicates the origins of our views on the economic situation and its causes, of our…
Recovery surprises leave markets floating on air – Times Online
byThe distinguished writer and economist for the Sunday Times, David Smith, on the 30th of August in this article wrote the following; Why have…
Baxendale and Evans make the SSRN top ten
byOn 26 August 2009, Baxendale and Evans’ paper Assessing UK Money Supply Measures in Light of the Credit Crunch made the top ten papers of…
Tangible Ideas – Goodbye to All That
byBy kind permission of Sean Corrigan, we reproduce his report Tangible Ideas – Goodbye to All That, in which he explains the end of…
FT.com / Comment / Opinion – The risk of a double-dip recession is rising
byWriting in the Financial Times, Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at the Stern School of Business, asks questions which chime with The Cobden Centre:…