We have discussed the impact of aging population quite often now. The elderly depends heavily on savings for their expenditure especially after retirement. However, having…
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We have been discussing the global oil price and dollar appreciation. To continue the trend, I want to present an interesting article from Bloomberg that…
So this is my third follow up post on the situation in Greece: you can read my previous blog posts here and there. Earlier today,…
Forget the “patience” and “considerable time”. These two words no longer describe Fed’s attitude toward increasing the near zero interest rate. Last week, Yellen and…
As Marybethand I posted, domestic oil production is becoming an important economic issue. In her post, Marybeth finds that the U.S production has been rising…
Bloomberg Business reports that several U.S. drilling executives met with Brian Deese, the White House senior energy policy adviser, to discuss lifting of the 40-year…
Paul Krugman is one of my favorite economists. He has a natural talent to make his brilliant insights in economics understandable for just about anyone.…
According to New York Times, Apple will be replacing AT&T on Saturday, March 18th. Apple is now one of highest valued companies whose market capitalization…
The other day, I made a blog post about the Greek debt crisis. After reading Professor Smitka’s comment, I wondered how effective/ineffective the IMF’s austerity…
Huffington Post had a very interesting read yesterday. Mark Dayton, governor of Minnesota since 2011, proves once and for all that trickle down economics does…
The financial ministers of 19 EU nations agreed to keep the EU bailout funds flowing to Greece. Bloomberg reports that the government in Athens may…
Last week, we discussed the necessity of reforming Social Security. I wished we also talked about the effect of Social Security benefits on reducing elderly…
Last term, I attended an outside lecture by Eric Rosengren, the president of Boston Federal Reserve. What particularly interested me was his statistics on the…
Last time, we read a paper by Robert Gordon on the historical trends and future perspectives of the U.S economic growth. In his paper, Gordon…