Economics & Finance
Mary Fitzgerald / June 25, 2009
We are witnessing an unprecedented outpouring of anger at our political and financial elite, writes MG Zimeta in her web exclusive, free to read online this week. Fueled by the drip-feed of news...
JONATHAN_FORD / June 15, 2009
The credit crisis is producing some odd bedfellows. Take Tim Congdon, who is one of our more hair-shirted monetarists. Congdon has been one of the leading supporters (and intellectual authors, if...
Tom Streithorst / June 11, 2009
“Most of what we have been doing in macro for the past 30 years has been spectacularly useless,” pronounced The Professor in his third and final lecture at the LSE last night, entitled: “The...
Inflation. There I’ve said it: the dirty word, that bad, bad thing all of us have been taught to fear. In his second lecture at LSE last night Paul Krugman was a bit circumspect—but, if you read...
Tom Streithorst / June 9, 2009
My son says I’m a nerd. Maybe he’s right. When I heard that Paul Krugman, 2008 Nobel prize winner in economics, scourge of the Bush administration, op-ed writer for the New York Times, was...
Leo Hornak / June 5, 2009
This month's edition of Prospect contains a range of perspectives on the meaning of the Tiananmen anniversay (see here and here). For our archive selection this month however, we revisit another...
Meghnad Desai / May 18, 2009
In the end the Indian voter had the last laugh. In the last edition of Prospect I wrote an essay about the chances of Mayawati, a regional dalit politican in northern India, surprising...
JONATHAN_FORD / May 14, 2009
Lou Jiwei, the head of China’s sovereign wealth fund, raised a chuckle last December when he called on the World Bank to guarantee investments in the US and Europe, just as it does in developing...
Mary Fitzgerald / April 28, 2009
While the Met's cack-handed policing of the G20 protests earlier this month grabbed the headlines, less attention was trained on the concrete outcomes of the summit. In an article free to read online...
Last night's match between Arsenal and Liverpool seems merely the latest in a new pattern of 4-4 thrillers. (I didn't see the game; its deadline week here at Prospect. Most us were in the office...
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