By Timothy Weckesser, Ph.D. & Yang Lin, Sino-Consulting We recently completed a comprehensive study of China’s electric vehicle industry which, we believe, presents a vivid example of what “industrial planning” means in that country. China’s economy is often a hard-to-define mixture of pure private enterprise and comprehensive central planning, as evidenced by the well-known Five-Year [...]
Read moreThe below editorial was published in the June 11, 2012 edition of the USA TODAY. The electronic version can be found here. by David Kotok Many analysts argue that the eurozone crisis will put the U.S. economy into a recession. They are wrong. Most fail to acknowledge the lessons learned by Americans during the last [...]
Read moreby Michael Drury, Chief Economist, McVean Trading & Investments, LLC After a week of meetings with the central bankers and monetary policy analysts of the Baltics and Emerging Europe we are left with the impression that the Eurozone problems will be resolved, likely with Greece still in the Euro, and that few inside or outside [...]
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