All posts tagged "Desmond Lachman"
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Brazil and Turkey: 2 canaries in the coal mine
Global economic policymakers taking comfort in the absence of a full-blown emerging market crisis in the wake of...
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Who wants to give Italy a free loan?
Every credit binge has a poster child—a bond that encapsulates the misallocation of resources caused by easy money....
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Pandemiconomics: Why the Coronavirus Is Driving the Next Fiscal Policy Problem
The world’s central banks seem to be running out of road to provide the economy with further monetary...
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The Euro’s endless horror or end to the horror
Desmond Lachman According to an old German saying, an end with horror is better than a horror...
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Planet earth to Turkish Finance Minister Albayrak
Mr. Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s finance minister and President Erdogan’s son-in-law, seems intent on worsening his already severely dented...
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If Germany Won’t Help Bail Out Italy, Who Will?
The European Central Bank and the German Constitutional Court are bickering over whether or not to save Italy...
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Wall Street in coronavirus La La Land
Hope springs eternal on Wall Street. Each day brings news that the coronavirus threatens to become a Chinese...
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The IMF’s reality check to Mr. Trump
There could not be a sharper contrast between President Trump’s bullish assessment of the U.S. economic outlook at the Davos...
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Turkey’s economy remains vulnerable
Anyone who believes President Erdogan’s assertion that the Turkish economy is out of the woods following its 2018...
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Brexit, Hong Kong, and the US elections
Bill Clinton never tired of saying that when it came to elections it was the economy that mattered, stupid. ...
