This Great Graphic was posted on the FT Alphaville, which in turn appears to have gotten it from Credit Suisse, who relied on Thomson Reuters data. A prevalent monetarist argument is that foreign exchange prices should...
Most observers have focused on the stronger than expected German ZEW survey that showed expectations jumping to its best level since mid-2010. Yet what has been largely overlooked is a collapse of auto sales throughout...
There was something important coming from the G20 meeting, but it is not the currency wars that have captured so many imaginations in the media and blogosphere. It was about corporate taxes, but before turning to it,...
This Great Graphic is posted in numerous places, but I saw it on Miles Corak’s blog Economics for Public Policy. Alan Kruger, the Chairman of the Economic Advisors of the President helped popularize it in...
Rzeczywista woja walutowa jest mało prawdopodobna. Ostatnie konflikty miały głównie charakter retoryczny i nie wydaje się, żeby istotnie różniły się od tego co działo się wcześniej w epoce zmiennych kursów...
1. Banks that borrowed from the ECB under the Long Term Repo Operation (LTRO) can begin repaying, if they want. Banks must notify the ECB on a weekly basis about how much they want to repay. The ECB will publish amount...
This Great Graphic, from the Economist, utilizes the new data base created by the OECD and World Bank that we brought to your attention here. Rather than simply look at the dollar value of goods and services that cross...
These Great Graphics were posted Fabrizio Goria (@FGoria), a financial reporter for EuroIntelligence. They draw on research by Societe Generale and data from Eurostat. I have posted graphs of Europe’s unit...
This Great Graphic was part of Bruce Bartlett’s post on the NY Times Economix blog. It charts the Federal Reserve’s annual payment to the Treasury. The sharp increase in recent years recent years reflects...
The Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission (similar to the US SEC) said that China can increase by 10-fold the size of the two main channels by which foreign investors buy mainland financial assets. It can, Guo...