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Round-Up of Holiday Spending Surveys, Reports

Michael Panzner / 25-11-2009
If the following round-up of holiday spending surveys and news reports (with salient quotes) is anything to go by, those who have been counting on a V-shaped recovery in the (consumer-dependent) U.S. economy might want to reconsider:

DeLong: Rośnie groźba, że powtórzy się Wielki Kryzys

Metablog Obserwatora Finansowego / 25-11-2009
Na blogach ekonomistów rozgorzała dyskusja na temat następnego pakietu stymulacyjnego w USA. Brad DeLong (i tutaj), Paul Krugman, Nouriel RoubiniAlberto Allesina ("Pakiet stymulacyjny oparty na obniżce podatków ma większą szansę pobudzić wzrost niż ten oparty na zwiększaniu wydatków budżetowych"). A Daren Acemoglu z MIT pokazuje jak rządy przeszkadzają gospodarce. Mimo wszystko jednak Brad DeLong zmienia swoje zdanie na temat Wielkiego Kryzysu.

Heeding the Populist Call

Michael Panzner / 24-11-2009
  It’s clear that hostility towards Wall Street is increasing. Considering the well documented role that banks and brokers played in creating the mess we are in and the ways in which they manipulated the post-crisis clean-up to their advantage, the only real surprise is that it’s taken so long. One reason, of course, is money. The [...]

Already in the Pipeline

Michael Panzner / 19-11-2009
It seems to me that one reason why most economists and Wall Street strategists haven’t quite figured out that things are not getting better on Main Street is because they are theorists rather than empiricists. That is, they make assumptions about what should happen when the Fed does this or Washington does that, instead of [...]

Flowing Uphill

Michael Panzner / 17-11-2009
Remittances are transfers of money by foreigners to their home countries. According to Wikipedia, these cross-border payments constitute “the second largest financial inflow to many developing countries, exceeding international aid.” In 2008, for example, Mexico’s central bank reported that money sent to that country from Mexican immigrants in the U.S. totaled $25 billion. However, that sum [...]

‘The Good News Is Still Less Bad News’

Michael Panzner / 11-11-2009
Even though they create more than half of nonfarm private gross domestic product and employ half of all private sector employees, small businesses have borne a disproportionate share of the broad dropoff in demand and cutbacks in bank lending.

Raport o sytuacji na rynku pracy w USA (paźdz. 2009)

11-11-2009
Raport o sytuacji na rynku pracy w USA – pazdziernik 2009


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