At Davos, 'Dr. Doom' Stays Gloomy
DAVOS, Switzerland -- The economist widely acknowledged to have predicted the financial crash of 2008 holds little hope that global economic troubles ...
DAVOS, Switzerland -- The economist widely acknowledged to have predicted the financial crash of 2008 holds little hope that global economic troubles ...
Lia Petridis Maiello | Posted 02.18.2012
Nouriel Roubini, internationally acclaimed finance pop star, demands the introduction of a new discipline at the universities of the world, that of "c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, millionaires who want the government to tax them more, met with foremost anti-tax guru Grove...
Benedetta Pignatelli | Posted 11.14.2011
The lamentation of estrogen-laden Bridget Jones was echoed the globe over and is soon to be reanimated via a London musical circa 2012. Now hear it fr...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.28.2011
The U.S. economy is finally rising above its pre-recession level, but the growth may still not be fast enough to spur a robust recovery. After 18...
Sheldon Filger | Posted 12.27.2011
Should we believe that this time, after so many failed attempts also advertised as the real solution, the politicians have finally got it right? I don't think so.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.14.2011
Whether or not the the #Occupy Wall Street protesters explicitly adopt policy proposals or only generate political energy for the spirit of them, the Krugman/Stiglitz Army is at last on the march.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.12.2011
WASHINGTON -- Speaking at an infrastructure conference on Tuesday, Democratic Senate candidate Tim Kaine of Virginia laid out his vision for achieving...
Posted 12.05.2011
(Mike Dolan) - You know it's grim when the prevailing debate among economists and historians is whether the world economy faces the "Great" depres...
Posted 10.15.2011
Texas Governor Rick Perry, who recently announced that he is running for president in 2012, had some harsh words for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bern...
The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011
Yet another group of analysts have issued a grim warnings about the recent run-up in oil prices. In a letter to clients, analysts at Bank of Americ...
Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011
Egyptian people are out in the streets not just to meet but by their need to eat. Replacing a modern day Pharaoh may not be enough. He is not their only enemy.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011
The report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, festooned with its various Republican dissents, has receded into the past faster than this year...
AP | DAN PERRY | Posted 05.25.2011
DAVOS, Switzerland — It has been the question of the day at every high-powered international gathering for two years: Are we out of the woods? T...
CNBC | Posted 05.25.2011
But the nub of the crisis is this: "We have decided to socialize the private losses of the banking system. Now you have a huge increase in public debt...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011
People interviewed in Inside Job claim that finance professionals deserve their money. But can someone rationally argue that someone earning $30 million/year works 1,000 times harder than someone earning $30,000/year?
Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011
From mommies' to men's blogs, from food diaries to fanzines, the universal-access realm of online is a new storytellers' paradise with handy short installments as the universal language.
Posted 05.25.2011
BERLIN/PARIS (By Erik Kirschbaum and Daniel Flynn): Germany and France declared on Monday that Europe had taken decisive action to save the euro by re...
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011
Summers, no matter what some critics say, is a formidable intellectual heavyweight on economics policy -- and will continue to be, long after he leaves the White House. However, he needs to retool.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the myths of this stunted political moment is that Barack Obama "tried to do too much," and that purist, ungrateful liberals are mad at him over things like the absence of a public option in his heath bill. This is dangerous nonsense, and it matters because these widespread views among the pundit class will influence what lessons the media and Obama himself draw from what is likely to be an epic partisan defeat on Tuesday.
The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011
A wonkish spat erupted Friday between economist Nouriel Roubini and blogger Joe Weisenthal, all in 140 characters or fewer. It started Friday morning...
Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. economy is a "fiscal train wreck" waiting to happen that risks ushering in a period of stagnation featuring by minimal growth, high unemploy...
Nicole Lapin | Posted 05.25.2011
Moving forward, the first quarter of the 2011 fiscal year will be a true test of how far the states have come in repairing their bruised economies. For some, it's not a question of hitting rock bottom, but how to climb out of the fiscal hole once they do.
Project Syndicate | Posted 05.25.2011
A generation later, the sequel to Wall Street -- to be released next month -- sees Gekko released from jail and returned to the financial world. His r...
Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011
Inside Job cuts through the fog of disinformation and punditry to expose the truth about a catastrophic event, clarifying for the everyman the financial meltdown of 2008 that wrecked the lives of millions.
AP | Posted 01.27.2012