February 2, 2007
Financial MarketsTim Lee of Pi Economics estimates that about a $1 trillion of private money is now betting that the yen will stay fairly weak. Tim Lee, of Pi Economics, reckons as much as $1 trillion may be stake…
July 8, 2007
Financial MarketsThe funny thing about the dollar is that it is now kind of weak -- except against the currencies of those places that actually have large current account surpluses.The dollar is close to record lows…
August 16, 2007
Financial MarketsThere clearly has been a flight to liquidity recently. T-bill yields have collapsed (See the Econocator). Perhaps because of the Fed. Perhaps because folks are hoarding cash and nothing that pays…
January 8, 2003
United StatesSeptember 7, 2001 - What if you took seventy-five of the most experienced professionals in the fields of finance, economics, foreign policy, and national security and confronted them with two dozen p…
July 7, 2011
JapanA bullet train arrives at JR Sendai Station after full service is restored on April 29 to the JR East Tohoku Shinkansen line following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. (YouTub…
February 27, 2014
GlobalHarsh winter weather appears to have dealt the global economic recovery a temporary setback, but growth is projected to pick up again later this year. Nomura's Lewis Alexander, Takatoshi Ito from the…
February 27, 2014
GlobalHarsh winter weather appears to have dealt the global economic recovery a temporary setback, but growth is projected to pick up again later this year. Nomura's Lewis Alexander, Takatoshi Ito from the…