Showing posts with label populism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label populism. Show all posts
Friday, November 13, 2020

13/11/20: The economy has two chronic illnesses (and neither are Covid)

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My column for The Currency  this week covers two key long-term themes in the global economy that pre-date the pandemic and will remain in pl...
Friday, July 24, 2020

23/7/20: Globalization and Populism: A Recent Study

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I recently came across a fascinating paper by Dani Rodrik, an economist always worth reading. The paper, titled " Why Does Globalizat...
Monday, February 3, 2020

3/2/2020: Demographics and Support for the EU: Populism Base

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Rising populism in politics, demographics and the financial crisis aftershocks are linked. Intuitively and empirically. And thus says a ne...
Friday, August 16, 2019

16/8/19: Post-Millennials and the falling trust in institutions of coercion

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A neat chart from Pew Research highlighting shifting demographics behind the changing trends in the U.S. public trust in core institutions...
Friday, November 30, 2018

30/11/18: The Myth of Social Mobility and Wealth Inequality

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Three charts, related topics. Global wealth inequality has been a much-discussed problem these days, with both longer-term economic and ...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

9/9/2018: Corporate Power, Charity, and Social & Policy Impacts

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In an important discussion, titled "Tax-exempt lobbying: Corporate philanthropy as a tool for political influence", Marianne Ber...

9/9/18: Populism, Middle Class and Asset Bubbles

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The range of total returns (unadjusted for differential FX rates) for some key assets categories since 2009 via Goldman Sachs Research: ...
Monday, May 21, 2018

21/5/18: Italian Sovereign Risks Are Blowing Up

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As I noted in my comment to ECR / Euromoney  and in my article for Sunday Business Post (see links here: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.com...

21/5/18: Risk experts take flight over Italy's political risk

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Euromoney and ECR are covering the story of Italian political risk, with my comments on the rise of populism in Italy and its effects on...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

15/518: Four macro charts that explain Trumpvolution

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The current growth cycle has been the second longest on record: Source: FactSet But it has been much shallower than the previous cyc...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

15/4/17: Naughty and Not Very Nice: French Presidential Hopefuls

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A neat summary (ignore polls numbers at the top - these are dated) of political platforms behind the key Presidential election candidate...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

11/11/2016: Europe's 'Convincing' Recovery

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Europe's strong, convincing, systemic recovery ... the meme of the European leaders from Ireland all the way across to the Baltics, an...
Friday, June 17, 2016

17/6/16: Forget Brexit. Think EUrisis

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Swedish research institute, Timbro, published their report covering the rise of political populism in Europe. And it makes for a sobering ...