The IMF game changer
Christine Lagarde has urged countries to put a brake on austerity measures amid signs that the IMF is becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of government cutbacks on growth. Ms Lagarde, IMF...
View ArticleFiscal multipliers and growth guesstimates
Forecasts for the European Union covering 2012-2014 were out on Wednesday. FT Alphaville thinks the EC may be onto an important trend: The distress in more vulnerable Member States has progressively...
View ArticleHe isn’t the Prime Minister, he’s a very naughty economist
(This is getting to be a genre.) Robert Chote, head of the Office for Budget Responsibility – the UK’s independent fiscal watchdog – writes to David Cameron about this speech…Continue reading: He isn’t...
View ArticleMeanwhile, in Greece…
Dromeus Capital. The name might ring a bell. It’s the fund which did its homework on underpriced Greek assets last year, making a killing. Pretty striking, then, that they’ve now gone cautious on...
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