While reading Rates Blog today I came across the following statement: 7. Training your replacements – The next wave of globalisation is going to hit service sectors in developed economies that have previously been immune to outsourcing to the likes of China or India. First the manufacturing sectors in America, New Zealand and Australia (Toyota …
Category Archive: International economics
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Dec
19
2011
Crisis over before Christmas?
With bond yields collapsing in Europe the implied “bank run” on the periphery appears to be over. This is due to the ECB backstopping European banks for the next three years – in some sense they have taken on the lender of last resort role, just in a confusing, seemingly temporary, and poorly communicated way. …
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Dec
14
2011
Conditional policy
Today’s Fed statement about monetary policy followed the same pattern that we have seen from other central banks, such as the RBA and RBNZ. Essentially, fundamental conditions remain a bit weak, and so there is a reason to keep policy stimulatory – however, this view is strongly conditional on the ECB/Europe not being bat sh*t …
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Nov
24
2011
Papers to read
Via Marginal Revolution On a banking glut. On excessive financing. Both arguing against the “excessive savings” view of the crisis – which is currently my prior. Will be reading these (rereading in the case of the second one) in order to avoid listening to more crap about the NZ election … seriously, I didn’t realise …
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Nov
17
2011
Global youth unemployment, why?
Arnold Kling raises the issue that youth unemployment has risen disproportionately during the recession. He raises three stories and says only one makes sense – his third story: Sticky wages, Shift in demand/technology His PSST story – where it is taking time for entrepreneurs to utilise labour/match skills following a structural shock. This is all …
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Nov
14
2011
Twitter gets it
#FirstWorldProblems is awesome and FirstWorldLife is also good. Read it sarcastically, and read it to give some context if possible.
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