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- Japan's Economic Slump: No End in Sight?
- Claus Vistesen submits: As I wind up, post exam session, for some serious economic analysis it is to an economic landscape which is increasingly looking like a surreal mixture between Kafka and Dali. Having been paying only scant attention to the data stream the past 5 months, I have...
- External links 2009-02-02
- Japan's Economic Outlook Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- Claus Vistesen submits: After a nice and entertaining week in Barcelona where I had the privilege not only to hold a seminar at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, but also to meet a host of interesting people, I thought that it would be about time that I finished my...
- External links 2009-10-19
- The ECB's Balance Sheet at a Glance
- Claus Vistesen submits: What follows is essentially the fruit of the last week's labour. It is a detailed look at the ECB's balance and the related question of whether we can call, what it is that ECB the is doing quantiative easing or not? Needless to say, I think...
- External links 2009-09-15
- Deflation Grabs Hold of Japan
- Claus Vistesen submits: I really don't want to beat a dead horse here and although I already gave it a kick in the context of the release of the May consumer price data, I do think that this is a pretty significant [quote from Bloomberg with my emphasis]. Japan’s...
- External links 2009-07-10
- Chile's Emerging Economy: Better than the Rest?
- Claus Vistesen submits: "Being a Keynesian means being a Keynesian in both the good and bad times." Andres Velasco Finance Minister in Chile [1] by Claus Vistesen
- External links 2009-07-06
- Germany's Peer Steinbrueck: Too Smug?
- Claus Vistesen submits: I have had a nice weekend not least because I have finally received my new laptop and as the first, of many, blog entries to be typed I would like to point your attention to some recent comments made by the German finance minister Peer Steinbrueck...
- External links 2009-06-14
- Reviewing the Latest Data from Japan
- Claus Vistesen submits: It appears that there is still some green shoots left in the news from Japan even though the underlying picture is one of deteriorating fundamentals. We learned recently how Q1 was absolutely horrid in Japan with out declining at an annualized 15.2% which, I a dread...
- External links 2009-05-30
- Japan's Economy Experiences Engine Failure
- Claus Vistesen submits: Last time I had Japan under the loop I asked whether there was no end in sight for Japan's economy and as I prepare for another close look, I must say that it is still very difficult to find any good news at all. However, and...
- External links 2009-03-30
- This Weekend's EU Summit Lacked Proper Teeth
- Claus Vistesen submits: It appears that many of us have had quite a bit of a weekend. Sitting here in Barcelona’s airport I can look back at some very nice dinners and conversations in the company of friends and colleagues as well as the odd stroll down La Rambla....
- External links 2009-03-02
- Australian Monetary Policy: Too Much of a Good Thing
- Claus Vistesen submits: It is indeed an old adage that while goods things are to be preferred over bad things, it is possible to get too much of the former. Looking at recent comments from the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, it is not difficult to imagine...
- External links 2009-11-06
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- CEE and Baltic Currencies: Where Now?
- Claus Vistesen submits: Ever since the illusive credit turmoil began, sentiment in the marketplace has been fickle - and essentially, like the assets of which it consists, volatile. We started off with an adamant focus on downside risks to growth which then turned into a focus on and fear...
- External links 2008-08-05
- Japan: Recession All but Certain
- Claus Vistesen submits: In my last note on Japan, I asked how much longer Japan could continue to fight off the incoming recession faced with a continuing shaky outlook on exports as well as a domestic economy steadily slowing down. Well, it seems as if the answer to this...
- External links 2008-08-10
- Is the Buck Really Back?
- Claus Vistesen submits: Can you feel it? That cold empty void that should have been Macro Man's dissection of last week's flight of the buck. Of course, this only goes to show that our good MM's initial hunch was right, in the sense that when he sets off on...
- External links 2008-08-18
- What's Next for Brazil's Economy?
- Claus Vistesen submits: In case you did not notice, the Eurozone recently slipped into a near recession and so did Japan. Together with an already limping and essentially recessionary US economy this has prompted some analysts to ponder the probability of a global recession or more aptly; a significant...
- External links 2008-08-21
- Testing Hank Paulson's Resolve on the GSEs
- Claus Vistesen submits: "When it rains, it pours" - so goes an old adage, and while the US authorities are still scrambling to figure out just what to do in the context of the erstwhile jewels, now broken, mortgage giants Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac's FRE foreign investors...
- External links 2008-08-21
- Japan: The Recession Is Here
- Claus Vistesen submits: It has been a while since I last had Japan under the spotlight. At that time, I noted that Japan almost certainly would be tumbling into or very close to recession. Since then, data have been pointing only one way really and with the recent downward...
- External links 2008-09-16
- Lessons from Central Europe
- Edward Hugh submits: The non-biblical concept of original sin, as Claus Vistesen notes in this post, when propounded in its standard Obstfeld & Krugman textbook version refers to the situation where many developing economies who are not able to borrow in their own currencies feel forced to denominate large...
- External links 2009-08-16
- What Last Weekend's EU Summit Did and Did Not Achieve
- Edward Hugh submits: Well reading the press on Monday morning it would have been fairly easy to reach the conclusion that nothing really happened yesterday in Brussels, and that a great opportunity was lost. The latter may finally be true, but the former most certainly is not. Let's look...
- External links 2009-03-04
- More Than a 'Whiff' of Inflation in Japan
- Edward Hugh submits: Well, as Claus Vistesen pointed out in his last post, Japanese data is pretty much a mixed bag at the moment. Industrial output shot up in April, and the May PMI data suggested that the easing of manufacturing contraction continued in May. However household spending and...
- External links 2009-06-01
- Sweden's Economy at a Glance
- Edward Hugh submits: Basically this post accompanies the Swedish monetary policy and devaluation post I have just put up. But first some theoretical structure from Claus Vistesen. click to enlargeAs we can see above, the idea is that as median population age rises the current account dynamics of a...
- External links 2009-07-08
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