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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 10:08 PM | March 10,2009
The liquidationist would have allowed Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to go, as happened in reality
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 09:12 PM | March 08,2009
The Obama administration’s stimulus package should provide a short-term economic boost soon, so a bottom to the economic downturn may be approaching
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 11:20 PM | March 04,2009
While Obama reiterates the US commitment to the World Trade Organization, his agenda promises to “aggressively defend our rights and benefits under the rule-based trading system”
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 12:04 AM | March 04,2009
The Dow Jones Industrial Index closed at 6,763 on 2 March, down 52% from its 2007 high
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 12:02 AM | February 28,2009
It’s a very high-risk strategy, requiring the economy and markets to be as responsive as US voters were to Obama’s optimism
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 01:15 AM | February 20,2009
After 2011, the US debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to decline again
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 10:36 PM | February 12,2009
Economically, Asian countries are suffering recessions generally more severe than in the West
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 01:15 AM | February 02,2009
US has been suffering from three economic imbalances: inadequate savings, a dangerous balance of payments deficit, and an increasingly disturbing budget deficit
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 09:54 PM | January 30,2009
Countries with big debt loads could face default unless they have huge reserves. But China and those that generate capital domestically should be in better shape
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 09:07 PM | January 13,2009
Credit conditions have now eased considerably; the spread between the two short-term rates is only modestly above historic levels
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 10:33 PM | January 07,2009
With the US, western Europe and Japan all in recession and unlikely to emerge quickly, whatever growth there is in the world will be concentrated in emerging markets
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 09:55 PM | January 06,2009
The stimulus package is currently expected to total around $775 billion, 5% of US GDP, spread over two years
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 12:03 AM | January 03,2009
If world per capita GDP grows at 2.58% per annum, it will equal current US GDP per capita of $45,600 in 60 years
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 10:30 PM | December 23,2008
Japan’s exports down 8.9%, imports up 6.9%
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 10:33 PM | December 18,2008
A cooling property market is not China’s most serious problem, although its effect on urban yuppies may make it politically salient
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