This year, Russia has taken over the rotating chair of the G-20 group of leading economies. Its theme is the need to start a new cycle of economic growth. Timely.
As the E.U. will try to pass their multi-annual financial framework, a practical scheme to help the young jobless, Youth Guarantee, could be initiated.
The fiscal cliff negotiations over tax rises and spending cuts that dominated Washington towards the end of 2012 are directly to blame.
Both food and non-food price rises will remain high in the coming months
No major outcomes come from Santiago: ‘legal certainty’ in the economic investments while the E.U. was unsuccessful in closing a free-trade agreement with Mercosur.
Quick quiz question: Which country’s currency has risen threefold against the U.S. dollar over the past 12 months, a period in which the U.S. currency strengthened by 4% against all currencies overall?
On the face of it the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is getting some tough nuts.
Argentina president Cristina Kirchner is haunted by the fear that economic history will repeat itself.
Inequality and its consequences for the economy, democracy and society have become Nobel economic laureate Joseph Stiglitz’s leitmotif.
Japan’s record trade deficit for 2012 announced Thursday will bolster new prime minister Shinzo Abe’s determination to help his country’s exporters by further devaluing the yen through ultra-loose monetary policy. It should also strengthen the voices of those warning against the dangers of a new round of currency wars, and the politicization of central banks whose independence has kept them at bay.
