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’Stall speed
FT blogger (and Markets Live contributor) Gavyn Davies recently raised the question of whether the growth rate of the US economy had dropped below stall-speed and was heading back to recession.
He concluded it wasn’t,
Markets Live – Fed press conference special, featuring Gavyn Davies
Not since Arthur Dent quizzed Deep Thought has a Q&A session been so eagerly anticipated.
On Wednesday (27 April) at 2:15pm New York time / 7:15pm London time Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will conduct the first post-FOMC press conference in the central bank’s history.
[Gavyn Davies] Guest editing for the day [updated]
FT Alphaville is being taken over … again.
On Wednesday March 23, Gavyn Davies, the FT.com blogger, former Goldman Sachs economist, adviser to No 10 and chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management, will be taking the controls.
Toytown economics – then and now
A charming little tale has come our way – one published in the Independent some time ago…
Debt is a dirty word that dominates economic debate in Toytown today. This is why.
A decade ago the only house in Toytown was owned by Big Ears.
Prsh-dum Prsh-dum Prsh-dum
That’s meant to be the sound of a printing press, by the way. Former Treasury adviser Gavyn Davies ponders the possibility of Britain turning on the money taps in a piece in the Guardian today.
It’s called “We must start thinking like South American dictators.”
Davies splits hedge fund firm from partner
Gavyn Davies, former chairman of the BBC, has split his hedge fund business from that of partner Christian Siva-Jothy, the former Goldman Sachs star trader, in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the bad publicity that affected the firm this year.
London hedge fund cuts staff and fees
SemperMacro, a hedge fund set up by a former Goldman Sachs trader and the former chairman of the BBC, is cutting staff and fees after investors took out cash following losses last year, reports the Wall Street Journal.