Japan’s Lost Decade
Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’ Wins Fresh Attention – James Mackintosh, Financial Times “The 1990s were certainly bad for Japan. Gross domestic product rose at half the rate of slow-growing France and a third that of the US. The Nikkei 225 index halved from its peak above 36,000…On paper, the 2000s... Read the full story
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A CEO Polygraph
How Can You Tell If A CEO Is Lying? – Kyle Stock, DealJournal, The Wall Street Journal Conference call Q&As are a confusing and cryptic dance. Executives try to be attractive to investors, without giving away too much. In many cases, they are trying to put a good spin on bad results. But what if... Read the full story
Quotable
From the July 28, 2010 Financial Times, Vulnerable to Vertigo “Using past forecast errors as a guide, the new UK Office for Budget Responsibility sees an 80 per cent chance that the British economy will grow between a negative 0.4 per cent and a positive 4.7 per cent in 2011, a range so wide it encompasses... Read the full story
Canada – Land of the Free
Canada, Land of Smaller Government – Jason Clemens, The Wall Street Journal “[T]he Canada of the 1970s and early 1980s—the era of left-wing Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau—no longer exists…In 1995, the federal government, led by the Liberal Party, passed the most important budget in three generations.... Read the full story
Ethanol Subsidies Four Decades Later – Still Wrong
Survival of the Fattest – Review & Outlook, The Wall Street Journal “The best refutation of the theory of the survival of the fittest is probably the corn ethanol lobby, whose annual $6 billion in federal subsidies have managed to outlive both its record of failure and all evidence and argument…CBO... Read the full story
Raters Now Liable for Mistakes
Bond Sale? Don’t Quote Us, Request Credit Firms – Anusha Shrivastava, The Wall Street Journal “Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings are all refusing to allow their ratings to be used in documentation for new bond sales…Each says it fears being exposed... Read the full story
Big Troubles in China
Hong Kong’s Populist Turn – Review & Outlook, The Wall Street Journal “Hong Kong’s prosperity was built on its economic freedom…So it’s alarming to see the territory’s leaders turning their backs on that tradition…Hong Kong became wealthy by resisting the statist fashions... Read the full story
Gold ETFs and Gold to Go
Notable & Quotable – The Economist, The Wall Street Journal “Investment in gold ETFs and similar products reached a record high in 2008, of 321 tonnes—and then almost doubled, to 617 tonnes, last year. The stock of gold held by such funds more than doubled to 1,839 tonnes in the two years to... Read the full story
Donuts and Coffee to Measure the Economy
Using Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts to Track Economy – Phil Izzo, The Wall Street Journal The most recent leading indicators are pointing down, indicating more economic weakness in the months ahead. Be your own economist by going to your local Dunkin’ Donuts or Starbucks to track activity. You... Read the full story
