Tag Archives: credit crunch

Causes of the Global Financial Crisis

Hopi Sen is reckons there's just not enough discussion on the causes of the current economic crisis being led by politicians. I'm happy to oblige with my own bit of muddle headed opinion.
It's basically all about the US, the UK and (to a lesser extent) Europe acting as the great demand in the sky. The [...]

Stability and the Anglo Saxon Economy

Chris Dillow reckons that, based on the effects of the recession so far on various countries, Britain and the US, the Anglo Saxon countries, are doing better than the eurozone. He goes on to suggest that this indicates that the Anglo Saxon model (as in debt, lightly regulated financial services and such)is not as unstable [...]