John Browne

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Stalemate in Toronto

  Published 02 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Last week, global attention was focused on Toronto as the G-20 gathered to confront the growing financial and economic worries darkening the global economic horizon.…

• Suiting Up for a Post-Dollar World

  Published 25 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The global financial crisis is playing out like a slow-moving, highly predicable stage play. In the current scene, Western governments are caught between the demands…

• Holding The Tigers

  Published 09 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In the arc of history, all great powers have their day. Even confining our glance to the modern era, countries such as Spain, France, and…

• Uncertainty Reigns Supreme

  Published 28 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Just a few weeks ago, most financial analysts continued to insist that the road to recovery stretched far into the future. Now, uncertainty has returned…

• Stormy Seas on the Atlantic

  Published 23 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The European Union's debt crisis, the threatened collapse of its fledgling 'euro' currency, and the uncertainties created by the UK elections may seem very far…

• Band-aids for Everyone

  Published 12 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  As the health of much of the global economy weakens on a daily basis, political leadership increasingly ignores the source of the malady and instead…

• Gold Heats Up as Athens Burns

  Published 05 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In the decades that preceded Greece's adoption of the euro in 2001 the country papered over its chronic inefficiency and lack of competitiveness with its…

• Reports of Our Recovery Are Greatly Exaggerated

  Published 25 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  From all outward appearances, it seems that a grim chapter in U.S. economic history has come to an end. Newsweek magazine declares that "America is…

• Europe Fiddles, Gold Sizzles

  Published 14 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Much to the relief of jittery global markets, Greece's chronic debt problem has been papered over in a burst of European solidarity and apparent magnanimity.…

• Mr. Hu, Tear Down This Wall!

  Published 31 March 2010 | viewed 1,112 times

  Over two thousand years ago, China began to build its Great Wall in order to keep nomadic tribes and marauding armies from crossing its borders.…

• Bull Market or Just Bull?

  Published 24 March 2010 | viewed 1,248 times

  Last week, the Dow closed at 10,741, up some 64 percent since its 2009 lows, [03/19/10, Yahoo! Finance] when most markets had priced in the…

• Unlocking the Jobs Dilemma

  Published 09 March 2010 | viewed 1,037 times

  Productive, private-sector jobs - the lifeblood of a sound economy - are under assault by politicians in the United States and Western Europe, who have…

• The Dominos of Default

  Published 04 March 2010 | viewed 1,449 times

  The bad news for Greece is that despite some help from abroad, and some attempts at internal reform, investors are still leery of the troubled…

• Will the Pause Refresh?

  Published 26 February 2010 | viewed 1,462 times

  The world is currently in the eye of an economic hurricane. The leading edge of the storm, which made landfall in the second quarter of…

• Paper Hangers

  Published 17 February 2010 | viewed 2,285 times

  At a time when more and more offices are going paperless, governments in most of the developed world are doing the opposite. Finance ministers from…

• Euro Trashed?

  Published 10 February 2010 | viewed 3,112 times

  The European experiment with a trans-sovereign currency is facing its first acid test. The flashpoint today is Greece, which looks set to default on its…

• Rewards Abroad

  Published 04 February 2010 | viewed 2,106 times

  President Obama's State of the Union message only serves to reinforce my forecast that investors will continue to find better returns in markets outside America…

• Geronimo!

  Published 28 January 2010 | viewed 4,501 times

  As a former army parachutist with a bad head for heights, I recall standing in the doorway of an aircraft while my jumping instructor shouted:…

• Reflections Across the Pond

  Published 21 January 2010 | viewed 1,992 times

  Having been among the economic engines of Europe for much of the past decade, it appears as if the British economy has run out of…

• Things Fall Apart in Eurozone

  Published 12 January 2010 | viewed 5,077 times

  As fears of a dollar meltdown have loomed ever larger in recent years, major investors, including central banks, have moved significant portions of their cash…