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This article was published in The European Institute’s journal, “European Affairs” on January 2, 2013, by GIC Board Member and Independent International Market Economist, J. Paul Horne.

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David Kotok on the Election and the Fiscal Cliff

January 01, 1970

Re-elected President Obama and Fiscal Cliff The almost interminable season of acrimony is over. We have the results. The Obama-led wing of the Democrat party will continue leading the nation in finance, economic matters and social direction. One hopes the nation sets aside the meanness that we have witnessed and becomes serious about compromise. […]

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Bill Dunkelberg Comments on the Unemployment in the US and the Sentiments of Small Businesses

January 01, 1970

Commentary by Bill Dunkelberg The September employment report was pretty much as expected, 114,000 new jobs in the payroll survey. That was consistent with the NFIB survey findings (the job loss of -.25 workers per firm, 10 percent increasing employment but 13 percent reducing staff, job openings and job creation plans falling, indicating a higher […]

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Rocky Mountain Summit: July 2012

January 01, 1970

by John E. Silvia, Chief Economist, Wells Fargo Securities If you keep getting the wrong answer, then maybe you are asking the wrong question. For several years now, policymakers have been pursuing expansionary policy with the goal of significantly lower unemployment. Yet the wrong answer keeps popping up – high, persistent unemployment about eight percent. […]

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The Federal Reserve’s Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility

January 01, 1970

The securitization markets for consumer and business asset-backed securities (ABS) and commercial mortgage -backed securities (CMBS), which supply a substantial share of credit to consumers and small businesses, came to a near-complete halt in the fall of 2008, as investors responded to a drastic decline in funding liquidity by curtailing their participation in these markets. […]

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How to Make Healthcare Reform a Platform for Economic Expansion

January 01, 1970

by Peter A. Gold Philadelphia Business Journal July 6, 2012 I’m not an economist but I serve on two boards of directors with representatives of leading international financial Institutions, central banks and even a Nobel Prize winning economist. I am continually humbled by their profound knowledge in their respective fields. I surmise that they would […]

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Industrial Planning In China: A Case Study

January 01, 1970

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 […]

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Another view: Eurozone fears are overblown

January 01, 1970

The 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 […]

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In the Long Run, Will Europe be Grateful to Greece?

January 01, 1970

by J. Paul Horne, Independent Market Economist* Europe must be grateful to Greece for dramatizing: how the Euro is fundamentally flawed; how the Euro’s failure could cause a financial-economic disaster; and how European Union (EU) leaders must, despite all their differences and electoral setbacks cooperate to avoid a Greek tragedy. This week will be crucial […]

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Fiscal Cliff and True Reform: Short-Term Band-Aids and Long-Term Constructive Surgery

Helicopter Money: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Love Fiscal-Monetary Cooperation

China Market Update

“Thank you, Greece, for Saving the Euro!”

David Kotok on the Election and the Fiscal Cliff

Bill Dunkelberg Comments on the Unemployment in the US and the Sentiments of Small Businesses

Rocky Mountain Summit: July 2012

The Federal Reserve’s Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility

How to Make Healthcare Reform a Platform for Economic Expansion

Industrial Planning In China: A Case Study

Another view: Eurozone fears are overblown

In the Long Run, Will Europe be Grateful to Greece?