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oil

World Sets New Oil Production and Consumption Records

11/07/2014(0)
Last month BP (NYSE: BP) released the Statistical Review of World Energy 2014. This report is one of the most comprehensive sources of global and country level statistics on ... Read More
argentine

Argentina’s Sovereign Bondage

10/07/2014(0)
Sovereign debt has been back in the news recently, this time because of a United States Supreme Court ruling concerning Argentine debt. As a result of the ruling, a ... Read More
Russia-Gas-Pipe

Russia’s Grip Over EU Energy Unlikely to Change Soon

09/07/2014(0)
The European Union’s initial resolve at breaking its dependence on Russian energy after the Ukraine crisis erupted appears to be giving way to a realization that its giant eastern ... Read More
euro

Europe’s Debt Wish

08/07/2014(0)
Eurozone leaders continue to debate how best to reinvigorate economic growth, with French and Italian leaders now arguing that the eurozone’s rigid “fiscal compact” should be loosened. Meanwhile, the ... Read More
tokyo

Piketty with Chinese Characteristics

04/07/2014(0)
In his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty argues that capitalism aggravates inequality through several mechanisms, all of which are based on the notion that r ... Read More
bankruptcy

Gouging the Gauchos

02/07/2014(0)
Like individuals, corporations, and other private firms that rely on bankruptcy procedures to reduce an excessive debt burden, countries sometimes need orderly debt restructuring or reduction. But the ongoing ... Read More
SEC-Insider-Trading

The Sterner, Stricter SEC

01/07/2014(0)
As Mary Jo White sees it, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s job is to patrol Wall Street and Main Street and catch financial fraudsters. Since becoming the agency’s chair ... Read More
banks

Taking Systemic Risk Seriously

30/06/2014(0)
There are two leading views about the world’s financial system. The first, heard mostly from executives at leading global banks and their allies, is that the system is safer ... Read More
US CHINA

Rethinking the Sino-American Relationship

27/06/2014(0)
In early July, senior US and Chinese officials will gather in Beijing for the sixth Strategic and Economic Dialogue. With bilateral frictions mounting on a number of fronts – ... Read More
US-Central-Bank

Emerging-Market Target Practice

26/06/2014(0)
Central bankers want only a few things. To achieve any of them they usually seek to nudge inflation expectations, demonstrate the transparency of monetary policy, and establish their institutions’ ... Read More
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