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...This, as I understand it, is one upshot of the work of people such as Atif Mian, Ludwig Straub and Amir Sufi; and Michael Pettis and Matthew Klein....
...MS&S prefer the inequality explanation for two reasons....
...The S&P 500 has risen to within 5 per cent of its all-time high. Most importantly, it is wrong to dismiss worries about the disconnect between the stock and political unrest....
...M&S’s food arm had a stronger year, posting operating profit growth of 11.2 per cent to £237m....
...The economists Atif Mian and Amir Sufi found a higher propensity to borrow and spend among lower-income earners in the years before the crisis, raising the question of whether broad-based economic growth...
...Two of 2014’s most controversial books – Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys – will go head to head in an attempt to become the Financial Times’s 10th business...
...House of Debt by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi was a finalist this year....
...Last year I recommended “House of Debt”, the book co-authored by Sufi and Atif Mian....
...In their magnificent book House of Debt, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi find that what is outwardly disguised as a credit crunch is in reality a fall in demand for loans....
...… House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent it from Happening Again, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, University of Chicago Press, RRP£18/ $26 In this important...
...Vodafone said it would issue a special dividend amounting to $2bn in February, helping its stock up 4.5 per cent to 172p and the top place on the FTSE 100’s leaderboard....
...“American Assets Trust’s IPO provides a sound launch for the Reit IPO market,” said Atif Latif, director of trading at Guardian Stockbrokers....
...“Although we are disappointed at the result of S&P’s review, we believe that the current uncertainty surrounding the private equity sector globally has been a dominant factor in their decision,” Atif Abdulmalik...
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