Posts tagged 'Debt to GDP'

Reinhart & Rogoff is still ongoing, meme status inevitable

Kate is FT AV’s Asia Correspondent. She joined FT Alphaville in mid-2011 after carrying out various roles in the FT’s London office since 2005: interactive editor, companies reporter, and founding editor of the FT’s Energy Source blog.

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| May 28 08:23 | Comment |

Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff wrote a letter to Paul Krugman.

He responded, and so did some others. (DeLong for Krugman; Hamilton for R&R.)

On it goes.

And why not? Austerity is an important subject, the empirical data or lack of it deserves a great deal of attention. Economists calling each other names, probably less so. But it’s so entertaining… Read more

Deficits: good marketing in a time of austerity?

Lisa joined FT Alphaville in September 2011 after a tour of duty through the guts of the financial industry, having worked as an analyst at a bank and for a financial data company. She's now the Head of New Projects for FT.com.

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| Feb 22 12:15 | Comment |

Let’s take a moment for a high level overview of public debt-to-GDP ratios in the eurozone. If that’s not your idea of fun, well, you probably wouldn’t be reading FT Alphaville.

Courtesy of a note by Lasse Holboell W. Nielsen of the Economics Research team at Goldman Sachs (we may have added some kittens)… Read more

Britain doomed, apparently

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Jun 19 2012 16:15 | Comment |

A warning to Great Britain from UK-based investment fund Hinde Capital (a hedge fund that specializes in precious metals):

We wish to outline the gravity of the situation in which the UK finds itself, and by assessing how we got here we can begin to offer our solutions both for monetary and political reforms. Unfortunately we are deeply concerned that far from being cynics or purveyors of doom, the very harsh reality is that the UK is caught in an intractable spiral of negative outcomes. Read more

You want the truth? The EU can’t handle the truth

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Jan 29 2010 14:54 | Comment |

On Friday, Dennis Gartman of the Gartman Letter directed our attention to the following chart from this month’s Forbes Magazine:

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