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- Knocking on Norwegian Wood
- Edward Hugh submits: Well, if John Lennon had still been around today, he would undoubtedly have entitled his song Norwegian oil, but whatever way you want to put it Norway is back in the news, and this time not because of adolescents who find themselves with no alternative to...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Germany's Economy: How Did They Get Into This Mess?
- Edward Hugh submits: Everything in Germany is going up, except it seems the real economy - and except of course prices, which were stationary in May (that is a change of 0% year on year - the lowest inflation rate for over 20 years). Anyway, today it was the...
- External links 2009-06-16
- David Takes on Goliath and Loses: The Ferguson-Krugman Exchange
- Edward Hugh submits: "As long as excessive debt is not digested, both monetary and fiscal policies are inefficient. There is not much of an alternative. Either to let the economy collapse, in order to reduce debts, and then use fiscal policy to revive it, or inundate the insolvent economy...
- External links 2009-06-10
- Green Shoots in Germany and Estonia?
- Edward Hugh submits: Well, I am busying myself this morning scratching around looking for green shoots in Turkey. But as I was digging, I couldn't help notice this coming in over the radar from Germany, courtesy of Bloomberg: German exports fell more than economists forecast in April...
- External links 2009-06-09
- Latvia: Devalue Now or Later?
- Edward Hugh submits: The Latvian economy is certainly stuck in a hard and not especially pleasant place at the moment, and really one chart tells it all, since as we see above, the local interbank overnight interest rates have been storming upwards and through the roof over...
- External links 2009-06-08
- The Trouble with Latvia: What It Is and Why It Matters
- Edward Hugh submits: As I pointed out recently in the context of Latvia and the impending potential for a devaluation, there is a distinct risk of falling victim to the sin of crying wolf. Yet, as the plot inevitable thickens I am maintaining, as it were, my cry. There...
- External links 2009-06-04
- 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
- Exports, Investment Spending Drag German GDP Down in Q1
- Edward Hugh submits: German exports and investment spending plunged in the first quarter, dragging Europe’s largest economy into its deepest economic slump on record. click to enlarge by Edward Hugh
- External links 2009-05-28
- Germany: Seeing Is Believing, But Stabilizing Is Not Recovering
- Edward Hugh submits: This is one of the key points I have been hammering here on this blog for some weeks now. There is clear evidence of most economies globally "stabilizing" and at this point, you could even stretch it to say that the "worst is over" - since...
- External links 2009-05-28
- ZEW Central and Eastern Europe Sentiment Index Shows First Positive Reading in 20 Months
- Edward Hugh submits: Investor confidence in central and eastern Europe entered positive territory for the first time in 20 months in May according to Sentiment Indicator published by ZEW Center for European Economic Research and Erste Bank. May marked the first positive reading on the index since September 2007....
- External links 2009-05-25
- Is Hungary Set to Become the Next Iceland?
- Edward Hugh submits: Iceland, why on earth Iceland? Well, the issue I have in mind concerns the independence and viability of central bank monetary policy (especially in a small open economy like Hungary's) and the role interest rates, and investor sentiment, and yield differentials, and oh yes, I almost...
- External links 2009-05-20
- Russia Forecasts Possible 8% GDP Contraction for 2009
- Edward Hugh submits: Of course, with all these large negative numbers going the rounds at the moment, we are all in danger of going rapidly dizzy, but some pieces of data still have the power to shock, like yesterday's announcement from Russia's Economy Minister Elvira Nabiullina that the economy...
- External links 2009-05-20
- Italian GDP Falls at an Annualized Rate of 9.6%
- Edward Hugh submits: Italy's recession deepened at the start of 2009, with first-quarter gross domestic product falling to its worst level since at least 1980, confirming the impression that Europe's fourth-largest economy is now headed for its worst downturn since World War II. Preliminary data from the national statistics...
- External links 2009-05-15
- Spain's Economy Contracts at a 7.2% Annual Rate
- Edward Hugh submits: According to preliminary estimates from the Spanish National Statistics Office published today, GDP contracted by 1.8% in the first three months of 2009 when compared with the last quarter on 2008. This follows a 1.0% drop in Q4 2008. This is equivalent to a 7.2% annualised...
- External links 2009-05-14
- Not All Eastern European Economies Are the Same
- Edward Hugh submits: This was Angela Merkel's point wasn't it, if you remember, as she came out of the April EU summit she argued: Saying that the situation is the same for all central and eastern European states, I don’t see that……you cannot compare the dire situation in Hungary...
- External links 2009-05-12
- Is Unemployment in Spain Really Over 4M?
- Edward Hugh submits: The title to this post poses an interesting question I think, since the answer you give to it would seem to depend more on the meaning you attribute to the word "really" than on any consensually agreed objective fact. This is especially the case since Spain...
- External links 2009-05-12
- Japan's Economic Contraction Stabilizes in March
- Edward Hugh submits: Japan's contraction showed signs of easing in March, even though the recession has now set in for the duration, the deepest point may well have been passed. The ship may be stable, but it is still far from being right side up. Industrial...
- External links 2009-05-08
- Russia's Economy Contracts by 7% in Q1: Will 2010 Be Even Worse?
- Edward Hugh submits: According to Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach last week, Russia's economy shrank by 7 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2009, a staggering turnaround for an economy which has just enjoyed eight years of solid oil-fueled growth. "These figures are worse than...
- External links 2009-04-07
- Japanese Consumer Sentiment Rises as Exports Slump: Where's the Recovery?
- Edward Hugh submits: Japan put in a pretty negative export performance in May. Even shipments to China show little sign of improvement, and the general impression is that hopes for a quick recovery in global demand are looking very premature. click to enlarge On the other hand...
- External links 2009-06-25
- Are the IMF and ECB Lining Up Against the EU Commission over Latvia?
- Edward Hugh submits: There was a very interesting and revealing press conference given by IMF First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky and European Central Bank governing council member Christian Noyer in Paris on Thursday. Christian Noyer said that, in his opinion, Baltic countries like Latvia would not be helped...
- External links 2009-06-29
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