Friday, February 20, 2015

20/2/15: Russian Public Perceptions of 2014 Events

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A small snippet of an insight into Russian public opinion about big themed 2014 events via Levada Center:  http://www.levada.ru/eng/most-m...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

18/2/15: Inflation Expectations and Consumers' Readiness to Spend

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In an earlier post I provided a rough snapshot of the evolving relationship between inflation and consumer demand. But here is a fresh ac...

18/2/15: A Tale of Two Capitalisms & Economics Education

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A recent paper by Bennett, Daniel L., titled " A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Perilous Misperceptions About Capitalism, Entrepreneurship,...

18/2/15: Digital Disruption and Traditional Banks: More Value Uncertainty

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My recent post for Learn Signal blog on effects of Digital Technologies disruption on the traditional banking models:  http://blog.learnsi...

18/2/15: Deflation and Consumer Demand: Euro Area Evidence

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The key premise behind the risk of deflation is the argument that faced with a prospect of declining prices, consumers will withhold curre...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

17/2/15: Of Debt, Equity and the Wake Up Calls for the Financial Markets

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My post for Learn Signal blog on the issues of debt v equity composition of the global financial markets:  http://blog.learnsignal.com/?p=...
Monday, February 16, 2015

16/2/15: Euro v 'Sustainable Growth': Mythology of Brussels Economics

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Euro existence has been invariably linked to the promise of a 'sustainable' prosperity. From days when it was just a dream of a ha...

16/2/15: Current Account, Growth and 'Exports-led Recovery': 1999-2014

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There is one European economic policy/theory fetishism that stresses the importance of external balance in 'underpinning sustainable...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

15/2/15: European Federalism: Principles for Designing New Federal Institutions

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This week, I was honoured to have been invited to participate in a discussion panel of the Future of Europe at the Trinity Economic Forum 2...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

14/2/15: Russian Banks: Some New Stats

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A very interesting interview with Jim Rogers, reprinted by Russia Insider:  http://russia-insider.com/en/politics_opinion/2015/02/12/3390?...
Friday, February 13, 2015

13/2/15: January Russian imports ex-CIS down massively

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Russian external trade figures for Q4 2014 show accelerating trend toward decline in both exports and imports. According to the latest d...

13/2/15: Data: Don't Bank on Sanctions Triggering Political Change in Russia

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A very interesting insight into the interaction of politics and economics in public perception of political power distribution and public ...