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’The new double-life of Mr Roach
Stephen Roach, the “Mr Asia” of investment banking commentators, is stepping down as Morgan Stanley’s Asia chairman and moving back from Hong Kong to New York to take up a teaching post at Yale University.
Martin Wolf v Stephen Roach on US-China relations
Who’s more opinionated? Tough call, when it’s Morgan Stanley’s Stephen Roach up against the FT’s Martin “Two Brains” Wolf on the small matter of US-China relations and the outlook for China’s currency policy.
Econo-spats, Stephen Roach v Paul Krugman edition
It’s become increasingly clear that economists are fractious creatures.
Recent spats include Niall Ferguson v Martin Wolf via Paul Krugman and the legendary dispute between Joseph Stiglitz and Kenneth Rogoff.
Roach: Pooh-pooh to Chinese bubbles
Once again, the China skeptics are out in force, notes Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and clearly not a member of the Sino-Cassandra brigade.
In a Tuesday comment in Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper,
Morgan Stanley names economist Roach as Asia chairman
Morgan Stanley has appointed chief economist Stephen Roach, who last week said China must step up efforts to cool its economy, as Asia chairman, reports Bloomberg. Mr Roach, 61, replaces Alasdair Morrison,
Roach: ‘Subprime is today’s dot-com, standby for the spillover…’
Oh, what a way to start the week! Morgan Stanley’s Stephen Roach is sinking further and further into the depths of despair.
Just three weeks ago, Roach opined that given the state of things – tight spreads on risky assets,
Morgan Stanley debates the subprime credit crunch
As concerns grow over risky US mortgage lending, the topic is clearly at the forefront of the minds of Morgan Stanley’s economists who can air their thoughts on the bank’s Global Economic Forum.
Anxieties were further fuelled this week as a credit derivative index tracking credit risk on sub-prime mortgage bonds soared to a record high;
More on the Davos derivatives debate
“This has been the fiercest argument I have had in Davos,” said Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley.
After Wednesday’s post here about the debate in the blogosphere on the effects of derivatives in the financial system,