This month is no exception: this blog’s views from the US are about 6.5 times those from Italy (I wonder the interests from Ukraine)… Visualizzazioni di pagine per paese (Page Views by Country) Stati Uniti 6047 Italia 923 Ucraina 377 Romania 280 Germania 116 Federazione Russa 112 Francia 98 Cina 68 Qatar 58 Paesi […]
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Politicians, Deficits and Debt
Two nice graphs. One from Angry Bear showing the US deficit/GDP ratio associated with US Presidents since Nixon. The other from Bloomberg last year, before Monti, depicting the Italian public debt in per capita terms, at constant 2011 prices. Comments redundant
A Pessimistic Note on the Euro
On February 7, I gave a talk a the Conference “America: Still A European Power?” in Bologna jontly organized by Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Bologna University. (a more elaborate version of this post was later posted on voxeu e linkiesta ) The title of my presentation was “Why and How the US and the EU […]
A Brighter Future? A Global Poll
Table 1 Dukascopy, a Swiss Forex Bank, runs a monthly Survey on Global and Regional Economic Developments by asking a panel of international “experts” and researchers (including myself) based in several Universities around the world (*), how they see developments in EU, US&Canada and Asia. Numbers below 0.5 mean negative outlooks (0 being the worse) […]