Fiscal Cliff Analysis

November 10th, 2012

Fiscal Cliff means recession.

CBO: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/11-08-12-FiscalTightening.pdf

Tax Foundation: http://taxfoundation.org/article/fiscal-cliff-primer

Goodbye Election, Hello Fiscal Cliff

November 10th, 2012

The Undecided Voter

October 12th, 2012

 

Who is Who

August 24th, 2012

In case you missed it here is a recount of “who is who”:

  • “Russia is not Greece.” Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister, March 2010.
  • “France is not Greece.” Christian Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund, May 2010.
  • “Portugal is not Greece, and Spain is not Greece.” Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, May 2010.
  • “Spain is not Greece. But Greece is where it is thanks to a policy like Zapatero’s policy in Spain.” Mariano Rajoy, leader of the Spanish opposition, May 2010.
  • “Hungary is not in the same situation as Greece.” Olli Rehn, EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, June 2010.
  • “Hungary is quite obviously not Greece.” Gyorgy Matolcsy, Hungarian Finance Minister, June 2010.
  • “Spain is neither Ireland nor Portugal.” Elena Salgado, Spanish Minister of Finance, November 2010.
  • “Ireland is neither Spain nor Portugal.” Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General, November 2010.
  • “Ireland is not Greece.” Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, November 2010.
  • “Greece is not Ireland.” Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek Minister of Finance, November 2010.
  • “Ireland is not in Greek territory.” Brian Lenihan, Irish Minister of Finance, November 2010.
  • “Ireland is not Greece.” Michael Noonan, Irish Minister of Finance, June 2011.
  • “France is not Greece and it’s not Italy either.” Barry Eichengreen, American economist, August 2011.
  • “Italy is not Greece.” Rainer Bruederle, Germany’s FDP parliamentary party leader, August 2011.
  • “Italy is not Greece.” Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, October 2011.
  • “Austria is not Greece.” Karlheinz Kopf, parliamentary faction leader of Austria’s People’s Party, November 2011.
  • “Italy is not Greece.” Christian Lindner, FDP general secretary, November 2011.
  • “Portugal is not Greece, and it will not turn into Greece.” Antonio Saraiva, head of the Confederation of Portuguese Industry, February 2012.
  • “Spain is not Greece.” Richard Youngs, head of the Madrid-based think tank FRIDE, May 2012.
  • “Portugal is not Greece.” Pedro Passos Coelho, Portuguese Prime Minister, June 2012.
  • “Italy is not Spain.” Ed Parker, senior director of Fitch Ratings Agency, June 2012.
  • “Greece is not Argentina.” Yiannis Stournaras, Greek Minister of Competition, July 2012.
  • “Germany is not Zimbabwe.” Paul Casson, fund manager from Henderson Global Investors, June 2012.
  • “Spain is not Uganda.” Mariano Rajoy, Spanish Prime Minister, June 2012.
  • “Uganda does not want to be Spain.” Asuman Kiyingi, Foreign Minister of Uganda, June 2012.
  • “Spain is not Greece.” Elena Salgado, Spanish finance minister, February 2010.
  • “Portugal is not Greece.” The Economist, April 2010.
  • “Greece is not Ireland.” George Papaconstantinou, Greek finance minister, November, 2010.
  • “Ireland is not in ‘Greek Territory.’” Brian Lenihan, Irish finance minister, November 2010.
  • “Neither Spain nor Portugal is Ireland.” Angel Gurria, OECD secretary-general, November, 2010.
  • “Italy is not Spain.” Ed Parker, Fitch director, June 2012.

Olympic Games

August 7th, 2012



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