Economy

A paper by Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) entitled "Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles ……Read More

At long last, politicians in the United States are paying attention (or at least lip service) to growing economic inequality in America.  A recent report ……Read More

Oil companies have eyed the Arctic for years. With an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil lying north of the Arctic Circle, the circumpolar north ……Read More

A recent report by the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies examines the growing level of debt ……Read More

While economic growth in the United States is looking fairly robust as shown on this graph:   …in fact, if we look at GDP corrected ……Read More

In large part, the negative impact of the Great Recession on the world's economy was amplified by high debt levels among all levels of government ……Read More