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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 09:53 PM | March 06,2009
Unemployment is rising fast, credit spreads are widening and world trade has not picked up. The recession is getting worse and unless a turn comes quickly, the official experiments are likely to get even more desperate
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 01:15 AM | February 17,2009
In spite of lots of government aid, the global credit system is at best limping along painfully
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 10:27 PM | December 21,2008
Foreign exchange traders have short attention spans and a long list of concerns
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 10:53 PM | December 19,2008
The US is repeating a Japanese experiment with a zero in one of the most important variables in financial markets: the official overnight interest rate
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 10:27 PM | December 15,2008
The psychological drama of con men has entranced many writers: Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Thomas Mann and John le Carré
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 11:07 PM | December 08,2008
Obama provided no specific numbers in his Sunday TV appearance and press conference, but analysts are expecting $500 billion (Rs9.84 trillion) of stimulus programmes in 2009
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 11:14 PM | November 27,2008
If everyone expects the banking oven to provide more financial bread and cakes than the economy can produce, disappointment is inevitable, sooner or later
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 12:14 AM | November 15,2008
Politicians should admit that painful structural adjustments are necessary
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 10:24 PM | November 10,2008
Something needs to be done to keep recession from turning into a huge slump. So far, the attack against deleveraging has involved stuffing banks with capital and slashing official interest rates
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 11:07 PM | November 07,2008
Central bankers have abandoned all fear of inflation and all hope that the banks can manage on their own
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 12:09 AM | November 06,2008
The corporate bond market remains all but closed and despite government recapitalizations, banks still don’t have the capital or the confidence to lend freely
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 03:16 AM | November 04,2008
Finance helps the economy in much the same way a police force or an army helps keep the peace. Finance is a cost--not a benefit--of maintaining a complicated economy
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 12:25 PM | October 28,2008
The combination of deleveraging and fear has also pushed equity markets into something like a free fall
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 01:09 AM | October 18,2008
There’s more non-inflation to come as sharply lower commodity prices work their way through the economy
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 12:31 AM | October 07,2008
With Asia slowing and the US struggling, Europe cannot depend on the rest of the world to rebuild confidence
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