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Edwardhugh
Edward is a macro economist, who specializes in growth and productivity theory, demographic processes and their impact on macro performance, and the underlying dynamics of migration flows. Edward is based in Barcelona, and is currently engaged in research into the impact of aging, longevity, fertility and migration on economic growth. He is also working on a book which has the working title: Population, The Ultimate Non-renewable Resource? He is a regular contributor to a number of economics weblogs, including India Economy Blog, A Fistful of Euros, Global Economy Matters and Demography Matters. He was, in fact, a founding member of all these weblogs. Edward follows in detail the Indian, Italian, Spanish, German and Japanese economies. He also has a more than a passing interest in the economies of Turkey and Brazil and in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe. Web Site: Global Economy Matters Claimed Blogs: Japan Economy Watch, Italian Economy Watch, Global Economy Matters, Greece Economy Watch, Poland Economy Watch, Spain Economy Watch, A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros, Czech Republic Economy Watch, Euro Watch, Latvia Economy Watch, Baltic Economy Watch, India Economy Watch, Brazil Economy Watch WallStreetBlips Member since Feb. 15, 2009 |
fistfulofeuros.net - 7 hours ago
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This is not an idle question. Despite all
those bullish headlines in the press, most informed observers...
- including Bundesbank head Axel Weber - are only to well aware of just how fragile the German recovery actually is. Indeed only last week the OECD warned that Germany’s economy, Europe’s may ...
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Is There A Double Dip Risk In Germany?
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fistfulofeuros.net - 2 days ago
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A couple of years back, I wrote an
article about Kosovo’s coal industry . Short version: Kosovo...
has lots of coal, and most of it is middle-quality lignite. But the mines suffer from a horrible lack of investment; many of them are still using thirty to forty year old equipment. So both ...
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About that coal in Kosovo (II)
eurowatch.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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Back in the heady days of 2006 some
30,000 cranes, roughly a quarter of total global capacity,...
were busy whirring away in Dubai. Today most of these devices have either left to find service in other parts of the globe, or lie silent, unused and unloved. In what is only the latest sign of the ...
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Total Eclipse At The Heart Of Dubai's World
globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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by Edward Hugh: Barcelona Back in the heady
days of 2006 some 30,000 cranes, roughly a quarter...
of total global capacity, were busy whirring away in Dubai. Today most of these devices have either left to find service in other parts of the globe, or lie silent, unused and unloved. In what is only ...
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Total Eclipse Of The Sun Hits Dubai World
fistfulofeuros.net - 2 days ago
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Back in the heady days of 2006 some
30,000 cranes, roughly a quarter of total global capacity,...
were busy whirring away in Dubai. Today most of these devices have either left to find service in other parts, or lie silent, unused and unloved. In what is only the latest sign of the ongoing ...
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Total Eclipse Of The Sun Hits Dubai World
globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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by Edward Hugh: Barcelona “Cutting rates by 50
basis points here and there is not going really...
diminish the appeal of the ruble,” said Manik Narain, an emerging markets strategist at Standard Chartered Bank Plc in London. “In terms of nominal interest rates Russia (at 9% as of 24 November) is ...
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Are Russia's Consumers Getting "Carried Away" With ...
globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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By Claus Vistesen: Copenhagen Although I certainly would
not rank it alongside Macro Man's dreaded vacation indicator...
or the incipient increase in the USD if and when the Economist finally decides to slot its decline on the front page, I still have the nagging feeling that whenever yours ...
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The Great Unravelling (Dubai Edition)
fistfulofeuros.net - 3 days ago
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An op-ed guest writer for the New York
Times opines : SIXTY-FIVE years ago, in November 1944,...
the war in Europe was at a stalemate. A resurgent Wehrmacht had halted the Allied armies along Germany’s borders after its headlong retreat across northern France following D-Day. From Holland to ...
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Wasn’t Someone Else Involved?
fistfulofeuros.net - 3 days ago
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“Cutting rates by 50 basis points here and
there is not going really diminish the appeal of...
the ruble,” said Manik Narain, an emerging markets strategist at Standard Chartered Bank Plc in London. “In terms of nominal interest rates Russia (at 9% as of 24 November) is still offering the highest ...
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Are Russia’s Consumers Getting “Carried Away” With ...
fistfulofeuros.net - 3 days ago
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There is something very traditional about the Irish
economic crisis. If you consider the staples of 1980s...
economics, they were the ideas that nominal wages adjust very slowly downwards and that labour markets segment strongly into insiders who are able to hold onto jobs in recessions and ...
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Ireland: The Reign of the Salaryman
globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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By Claus Vistesen: Copenhagen "In my view …
it is impossible to understand this crisis without reference...
to the global imbalances in trade and capital flows that began in the latter half of the 1990s." Bernanke (2009) Executive Summary Compared with the average quarterly value of GDP ...
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Rebalancing in the Baltics - A Preliminary Assessment
fistfulofeuros.net - 9 days ago
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It’s now clear that the Thierry Henry assist
on the William Gallas goal last night is going...
to generate more commentary and interest than tonight’s filling of the new EU jobs (Council President, High Rep. for Foreign Policy, and Secretary General of the Council), but nonetheless, we ...
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EU Lisbon jobs open thread
fistfulofeuros.net - 11 days ago
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It’s taken me a few days to get
aorund to it, but here’s my take on David...
Cameron’s equality speech ( The Big Society: Hugo Young Lecture, 10 Nov 2009 ). Cameron name checks Wilkinson and Pickett and says that they “have shown that among the richest countries, ...
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The new Tory party: desert for everybody
globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
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by Edward Hugh: Barcelona Sorry, and I apologise
in advance: in this post I'm going to be...
a nit-picker . The question in hand is the Eurozone third quarter growth one, and the story is all about differences (between countries) and these differences in the key cases (France and Germany) are in ...
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Just How Much Of A Eurozone Rebound Really Was There In Q3?
eurowatch.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
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Sorry, and I apologise in advance: in this
post I'm going to be a nit-picker . The...
question in hand is the Eurozone third quarter growth one, and the story is all about differences (between countries) and these differences in the key cases (France and Germany) are in many ways all about ...
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Just How Much Of A Eurozone Rebound Really Was There In Q3?













