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Markets

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Mutual Benefit

Feb 04, 2003 at 00:00

World demand has been supported by low savings in the US and the UK and rising budget deficits. Despite this, growth has slowed to well below its trend rate, as…

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Japan Needs Aggressive Monetary Change

Jan 28, 2003 at 00:00

The first argument is clearly nonsense. Once short-term interest rates have fallen to zero, a central bank can bring down medium and then long-term ones as well. If this doesn't…

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US Dividend Taxes

Jan 22, 2003 at 00:00

To skirt these weak points, an economic excuse was thought to be needed. The one chosen is nonsense. The excuse is that taxing dividends is "double taxation" since they are…

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U S Fiscal Policy May Lower The Dollar

Jan 15, 2003 at 00:00

These proposals look like a damp squib. Estimates for the effective stimulus given to the US economy vary from around 0.2% to 0.6% of GPD. This is a nugatory change,…

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Is the Dollar Being Libelled?

Jan 08, 2003 at 00:00

The capital stock is also growing in line with GDP, which rises at around 3.5% p.a., or much more if you share the hopes of Alan "Bubbles" Greenspan in a…

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Housing

Nov 27, 2002 at 00:00

All sensible people knew that Wall Street was a bubble, although they couldn't time its collapse. Markets have a major impact on economies. Since we can't time the former, we…

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Investors Should Not Aid Investment Banks

Nov 21, 2002 at 00:00

Companies might, of course, increase dividends and still buy-back as many shares as before. But this would either mean lower investment or higher borrowing. It is hard to believe that…

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The Burden of Past Error

Nov 11, 2002 at 00:00

Worldwide the economic news is worrying. Finance Ministers and central bankers remain loath to admit it. They resemble underperforming fund managers who insist that it's the stock market that's got…

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Economic Doctrines of Islam

Jul 15, 2003 at 00:00

Western critics rarely ever dare to make reference to the political, social, and economic doctrines taught untiringly by the clerics of Islam who are the most influential force in the…

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A Look At Iraq

May 15, 2003 at 00:00

We may be strangers to Iraqi mores but we always are mindful of the glorious history of the country. Long before there were ancient Greece, Rome, and the beginnings of…