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...That global macroeconomic movements this year have been in large part due to the United States Federal Reserve is so obvious that this paragraph is pointless....
...Monetary policy in the United States, until the early 1980s, was simple and conducted exclusively within the traditional banking system....
...It is arguably the only currency that is all three of these things. The United States Treasury is not the only place to get dollars....
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...The first employer-sponsored pension plan in Canada was introduced in 1874 (Gale et al., 2006). By contrast, some countries have only recently introduced private pension plans....
...Mian et al also found that the states to deregulate first weren’t more volatile than the rest of America back in the 1960s or 1970s, nor can their findings be explained by the big drop in the oil price in...
...– Beckworth, with an emphasis on declining labour mobility: Is the United States becoming less of an optimal currency area? – A new paper from Zucman et al on tax evasion and inequality....
...The euro is too young a currency to give up so soon the standard of having a single Treasury curve, as in the United States of America....
...at 5,235 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +13.80 (+1.04%) at 1,342 FTSE100 up +103.27 (+1.54%) at 6,814 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,394 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,374 Currencies €/$ 1.12...
...Some people didn’t appreciate Alphaville’s recent comparison of Greece’s economic performance since 2007 with that of the United States during the Great Depression, which implied the Greek government missed...
...Energy minister Khalid al-Falih says the energy-rich state will reveal audited oil reserves in conjunction with the flotation of a stake in Saudi Aramco....
...Eurofirst 300: -1.57% at 1,338 FTSE 100: -1.32% at 6,818 Currencies €/$ 1.1240 | $/¥ 100.9200 | £/$ 1.2980 | €/£ 0.8658 Commodities ($) Brent Crude ICE: -0.46% at 47 100 oz Gold Comex: 0% at 1,339.70 Copper...
...Official guidance is required on whether Gareth Bale et al were expressing confidence in the UK’s future as a free trader, or were just better at kicking a ball around....
...This is Peppa Pig’s chance to jump in puddles with ET....
...(0.00%) at 10,065 Currencies €/$ 1.14 (1.14) $/¥ 119.00 (118.85) £/$ 1.55 (1.55) €/£ 0.7356 (0.7361) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.52 at 50.25 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.65 at 47.03 100 Oz Gold...
...borrowers owe remarkably little of their dollar debt to banks or investors that reside in the United States.”...
...But the dollar retreated against most major currencies after tame inflation data further complicated the debate over whether the Fed should raise rates....
...The reasons are unclear but Omar al-Hassi had become a liability after publicly praising Isis precursors, which has taken root in several Libyan cities....
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...(FT) Protests and deaths on anniversary of Egypt uprising At least17 people were killed yesterday in the bloodiest protests since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was elected, as security forces fired at protesters...
...While in New York he talked about Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of his country’s state oil company PDVSA, which is supposedly up for sale....
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...The prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after Sunni militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, (Isis), which operates in Iraq and neighbouring...
...The depressing effect on real interest rates in the United States and other markets integrated with the US will depend on the scale of these capital inflows....
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