Monday, August 19, 2019

18/8/19: Migration Policy vs the Law of Unintended Consequences

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President Trump's policies are a rich field for sowing evidence on the application of the law of unintended consequence in economic po...
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...

16/8/19: U.S. Military Presence Worldwide

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Generally, I do not find Politico to be a great source for geopolitical analysis and data, but here is one exception - a handy map of U.S....
Thursday, August 15, 2019

15/8/19: Winning Trade Wars: Round 3

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A couple of days ago, Germany's info Institute published two scenarios estimating the impacts of the latest President Trump threats to...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

12/8/19: OECD Tax Plans: Some Bad News

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My column for the Cayman Financial Review  covering OECD latest tax reforms proposals:  https://www.caymanfinancialreview.com/2019/08/02/o...

12/8/19: Russian Markets Risk Assessments 2Q 2019

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Euromoney on Russian markets risk performance in 2Q 2019 with comments from myself and others:  https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1g9cyp...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

10/8/19: Irish Debt Sustainability Miracle(s): ECB and MNCs

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As a part of yesterday's discussion about the successes of Irish economic policies since the end of the Eurozone crisis, I posted on T...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

8/8/19: Irish New Housing Markets Continue to Underperform

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New stats for new dwelling completions in Ireland are out today and the reading press releases on the subject starts sounding like things ...

8/8/19: Upbeat Jobs Reports Miss Some Real Points

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Unemployment claims down, the weekly jobs report seemed to have triggered the usual litany of positive commentary in the business media ...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

6/8/19: El Paso and Dayton mark 2019 as the worst year for mass shooting violence in America on record

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In the wake of the extremely sad events of the last two weeks, it took me some time to run through the data from the https://www.gunviolen...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

1/8/19: Wages vs GDP growth: when economic growth stops benefiting workers

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I have posted earlier some data on the gap between real GDP and real disposable income per capita in the U.S. (see here:  https://trueecon...

1/9/19: 'Losin Spectacularly': Trump Trade Wars and net exports

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U.S. net exports of goods and services are in a tailspin and Trump Trade Wars have been anything but 'winning' for American export...