OECD on the importance of angel investment
Here’s 158 pages on angel investment across the world. Yes, it’s a very important source of seed funding across the US and much of Europe. H/T @pkedrosky
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Collateral Damage
Collateral Damage By John Mauldin December 31, 2011 ~~~ What Next? Where Next? A World with Too Much Debt Debt Restructuring and Write-Offs The Euro Zone: Pouring Fuel on the Flames What If… ? The Year(s) Ahead Auld Lang Syne ~~~ “Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.”...
OECD Growth Outlook, Country by Country
In its twice-yearly report on the global economic outlook, the OECD lowered its growth forecasts for the world's largest economies, and said the euro zone has fallen into recession. Here are some country-by-country highlights.
Countdown to $100 Oil – No Normal Recession
David Cameron describes the economic downturn as "no normal recession" UK Prime Minister David Cameron to party conference, 5th October 2011.
This is the fourth post in the series following the oil price, markets and general health of the global econom...
10 Monday Morning Reads
Some interesting reading to start off your week: • Italy and Spain must pray for a miracle (Telegraph) see also How Greece’s Political Elite Ruined the Country (Spiegel) • Kass: Sell Stocks (TheStreet.com) • Deleveraging will dominate rich world’s economies for years. (Economist) • Gensler Evolving in Derivatives War Sees No Deed Go Unpunished (Bloomberg)...
10 Monday Morning Reads
Some interesting reading to start off your week: • Italy and Spain must pray for a miracle (Telegraph) see also How Greece’s Political Elite Ruined the Country (Spiegel) • Kass: Sell Stocks (TheStreet.com) • Deleveraging will dominate rich world’s economies for years. (Economist) • Gensler Evolving in Derivatives War Sees No Deed Go Unpunished (Bloomberg)...
Thursday Morning Reads
A few interesting items for your reading pleasure: • Are Self-Dealing Parties Settling $242 Billion of Bank of America Liabilities for Way Too Little? (Naked Capitalism) • Big Business Leaves Deficit to Politicians (NYT) • America’s Debt Ceiling: The Mother Of All Tail Risks (Economist) see also Bargaining And Blackmail (Economist) • Bill Calls for Fannie,...
Piling on the government gurantees
Government guarantees for financial institutions are a financial crisis thing, right?Wrong.As the above chart from a new OECD paper (by Sebastian Schich and Byoung Hwan Kim) shows,...
Friday AM Reads
Once you digest today’s punk unemployment data, here are some worthwhile Friday reads: • Chinese Economic Slowdown May Lead to 75% Plunge in Commodities, S&P Says (Bloomberg) • The Rising Price of Oil and the Quality of Your Asparagus (Daily Reckoning) • Battle of the fund titans: . . . .-David Einhorn’s Speech at the Sohn...
Electricity price differences between countries
In this post an overview is given of electricity prices in a large number of countries, mainly members of the OECD. This shows how prices vary between households and industry due to tax differences, and by analyzing the sources of electricity per count...
OECD: ‘It won’t be us leading the global recovery’
A chart from the OECD’s latest economic outlook:The report calls mostly for conventional measures aimed at reducing global imbalances: medium- and long-term fiscal consolidation...
Something for the bulls?
Here’s something for stock market bulls to latch on to — the latest OECD Economic Outlook report.In spite of the turmoil in the eurozone, the OECD has actually revised...
