This week it was the turn of Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook to sit in the Congressional hot seat. With lights blazing and cameras rolling, a bipartisan lineup of Senators grilled him about the relatively small amount of tax the company pays on its substantial corporate profits. According to a New York Times account of [...]
In a speech delivered Tuesday to the Japan Society in New York City, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley offered his view on how he might assess the appropriate pace of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) current $85 billion per month asset purchase program: Let me give a few examples of how my [...]
The world is now in Phase Three of the al Qaeda threat. This Phase is the ultimate dispersed threat – the most difficult to control and potentially the most dangerous. Phase One of the al Qaeda threat spanned the period when Osama Bin Laden founded the organization in Afghanistan in late 1988 and its being [...]
Can one man's bold moves solve all the problems?
The ongoing weakness of America’s economy – where deleveraging in the private and public sectors continues apace – has led to stubbornly high unemployment and sub-par growth. The effects of fiscal austerity – a sharp rise in taxes and a sharp fall in government spending since the beginning of the year – are undermining economic [...]
If the current and achievable growth goal of 7.7% could be sustained in the coming years, Myanmar would emerge as the next Asian tiger – but not without inclusive growth.
Edward Hugh
Don't Shoot the Messenger
Edward is a macro economist, who specializes in growth and productivity theory, demographic processes and their impact on macro performance, and the underlying dynamics of migration flows. Edward is based in Barcelona, and is currently engaged in research on aging, longevity, fertility and migration, and the impact of all of these on economic growth. He is currently working on a book "Population, The Ultimate Non-renewable Resource?" He is a regular contributor to a number of economics weblogs, including India Economy Blog, A Fistful of Euros, Global Economy Matters and Demography Matters. He was, in fact, a founding member of all these weblogs. Edward follows in detail the Indian, Italian, Spanish, German and Japanese economies. He has a more than a passing interest in the economies of Turkey and Brazil and in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe.
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