Keyword(s): Protectionism
05/30/11
Vox: Financial protectionism, by Andrew K Rose and Tomasz Wieladek, May 29, 2011
During the global crisis governments made substantial interventions in financial markets, particularly in the banking sector. This column argues that one unintended conse… more »
03/12/11
Telegraph: Bank of England Governor Mervyn King calls for 'grand bargain' on global imbalances, March 12, 2011
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has called on governments to strike a "grand bargain" on global imbalances to avert a dangerous slide… more »
11/03/10
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Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
Project Syndicate: Beware of Wounded Lions, by Kenneth Rogoff, November 2, 2010
G-20 leaders who scoff at the United States’ proposal for numerical trade-balance limits should know that they are playing with fire. The US is not making a demand as much… more »
10/14/10
Project Syndicate: Who Caused the Currency Wars? by Simon Johnson (MIT Sloan), Oct. 13, 2010
The world is on the brink of a nasty confrontation over exchange rates – now spilling over to affect trade policy (America’s flirtation with protectionism),… more »
10/11/10
Source: Spiegel Online International (click on graph for larger image)
An American bill imposing punitive tarifs on countries that undervalue their currencies is set to unleash a new trade war between the US and China. But in fact the whole global… more »
06:48:18 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 279 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global, Economics Asia
Washington Post: Industrialized nations pursue currency compromise, Oct. 10, 2010
The U.S. and other industrialized countries are pushing to create a broad set of economic targets that would hold key countries - notably China - more directly accountab… more »
10/08/10
Foreign Policy: Financial Shock and Awe; The world's central banks are at war. What does that mean for the rest of us? by Barry Eichengreen, October 6, 2010
In popular histories of World War I, the outbreak of hostilities is portrayed as essentially i… more »
09/27/10
04:53:16 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 222 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Asia
Confronting Asset Bubbles, Too Big to Fail, and Beggar-thy-Neighbor Exchange Rate Policies, by Morris Goldstein,Dennis Weatherstone, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for
International Economics, February 2010
Here is an excerpt:
"On encou… more »
08/04/10
07:02:13 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 249 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
Over the past months we have tried to provide a picture about the hot debate whether government stimuli programs should now be phased out or not. In the coming days we will put together an assorted link collection to the various opinions of major economi… more »
05/09/10
Guardian: EU to get tough with hedge funds and private equity; The European parliament is expected to toughen regulations for hedge funds and private equity despite UK and US opposition, May 9, 2010The European parliament is expected tomorrow to appr… more »
12/14/09
How to Overcome the Financial and Economic CrisisDo We Face a Credit Crunch?Klaus-Jürgen Gern, Nils JannsenRedistribution Through the Geithner PlanDennis SnowerThe German Bad Bank Scheme Harmen LehmentPreventing Deflation Through Fi… more »
12/05/09
click for larger imageSource: Voyeux.orgGlobal imbalances were shrinking during the latest downturn. Baldwin and Taglioni show that during the recovery the US, Germany, China and others will return to their old path and that imbalances will incre… more »
09/12/09
This should not only upset "Asian powerhouses" but also American consumers:Yahoo Finance: Obama to impose tariffs on Chinese tires, Sept. 11, 2009 more »
07/23/09
FT: Downturn sees protectionist probes rise, July 22, 2009
Countries are increasingly opening trade investigations against China and other nations as the global recession drags on, according to a report to be released on Thursday.
The trend suggest… more »
06/29/09
FT: Swiss declare war over tax evasion, June 28, 2009
An economic war has broken out between Switzerland and the rest of the world after the crackdown on Swiss banking secrecy, according to one of Geneva’s leading private bankers.
Yves Mirabaud, a… more »
05/04/09
FT: Obama takes aim at US multinationals, May 4, 2009
Desai, Mihir A.,Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms(March 20, 2009). Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 09-107. Available at… more »
03/30/09
Project Syndicate: A Time to Dare by George Soros, March 2009
The upcoming G-20 meeting is a make-or-break event. Unless it introduces practical measures to support the countries at the periphery of the global financial system, global markets will suf… more »
03/29/09
Economist: London calling, March 26, 2009
THE first task for the leaders of the Group of 20, who will meet in London on April 2nd, will be to do no harm. Don’t fall out over whether Germany and China are spending enough public money to get the world e… more »
03/18/09
Source: VOX
VOX: The protectionist temptation: Lessons from the Great Depression for today, Barry Eichengreen, Douglas Irwin, March 17, 2009
What do we know about the spread of protectionism during the Great Depression and what are the implications… more »
02/21/09
07:56:10 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 502 words
Categories: Stock Market, Behavioral Finance
On April 6, 2007, we posted a Weltwoche article from August 29, 2002, titled "Ein Volk von Verlierern" (a people of loosers). The post was titled "remember". The Weltwoche article dealt with the new economy bubble, the herding behavior of investors and t… more »
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