News by tag - fiscal policy
30/04/2014 15:20
After several months of disappointing economic indicators, China’s State Council has unveiled a “mini-stimulus” package, focused on social-h...
22/04/2014 08:50
More than one-third of the world’s population lives in just three countries: China, India, and Indonesia. With all three undergoing signific...
14/04/2014 15:26
Many in the eurozone’s crisis countries complain that the source of their suffering is a rigid economic-austerity regime – including reducti...
26/03/2014 09:19
In January, Chris Williamson, Chief Economist at the economics research firm Markit, called France “the new sick man of Europe.” With near-z...
25/02/2014 09:23
Ukraine has suddenly arrived at a democratic breakthrough. After former President Viktor Yanukovich incited major bloodshed, many of his MPs...
03/02/2014 15:23
The global economy’s glory days are surely over. Yet policymakers continue to focus on short-term demand management in the hope of resurrect...
10/12/2013 17:00
As 2013 comes to an end, it looks like the world economy will remain stuck in low gear. For those reading the tea leaves of global recovery,...
09/12/2013 14:03
Social Democrats (CSSD), ANO party and Christian Democrats are in talks whether to raise corporate tax by 1-2 pct pts, from 19%, or introduc...
27/11/2013 17:10
China’s leaders have now agreed to relax the country’s decades-old “one-child” policy. Couples now will be permitted to have two children if...
18/11/2013 07:29
On November 12, the Third Plenary of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced a major turn to market-orient...
14/11/2013 07:30
Last month’s US government shutdown – the result of a partisan standoff in congressional budget negotiations – epitomizes the polarization t...
21/10/2013 10:53
When Greece’s sovereign-debt crisis threatened the euro’s survival, US officials called their European counterparts to express bewilderment ...
30/09/2013 09:39
Today, the eco calendar is rather thin with only the first estimate of euro zone HICP inflation and the Chicago PMI in the US. ECB’s Mersch ...
04/09/2013 16:23
Five years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the world has still not addressed the fundamental cause of the subs...
23/08/2013 07:57
The twenty-first-century economy has thus far been shaped by capital flows from China to the United States – a pattern that has suppressed g...
20/08/2013 15:57
In recent weeks, talk about a budding recovery in the eurozone has gained traction, with key indices pointing to expansion in the core count...
10/04/2013 15:53
The euro crisis has already transformed the European Union from a voluntary association of equal states into a creditor-debtor relationship...
27/03/2013 07:58
In a period of 12 hours last week, two of the world’s most powerful institutions installed new supreme leaders. They have in common that the...
06/03/2013 17:57
The International Monetary Fund’s belated admission that it significantly underestimated the damage that austerity would do to European Unio...
21/02/2013 10:25
Poland’s debt-rating outlook was raised to positive from stable by Fitch Ratings, while the A-minus credit rating was affirmed. The revision...