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East-West Tensions Require Clear Response
Current tensions between Russia and the West are getting worse, driven by Russia’s disdain for Europe and a belief that China’s rise will make the U.S. less relevant in years to come, according to two experts on the region.
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Credit Suisse’s Wilmot: Boom More Likely than Doom
Could the global economy be entering a period of strong, sustainable growth with continued low interest rates?
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Former EC president Barroso calls for unity to defeat global threats
José Manuel Barroso had a tough and eventful decade as president of the European Commission. During his two terms in the top job, he had to deal with a global financial panic, a protracted sovereign debt crunch and, with Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, the gravest threat to Europe’s security since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller explains the art of investing
Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller is one of the most prescient political economists of his generation. He accurately predicted the collapse of the two financial bubbles in the 2000s, based on a rigorous examination of equity market values and the application of innovative ideas from behavioral finance.
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U.S. rate hikes: the sooner the better, says Fed’s Fisher
For some time, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president Richard Fisher has argued that U.S. inflation risks were growing, and that official interest rates would need to rise from their extraordinarily low levels.
