The Edge

Richard Northedge takes on corporate finance

Archive for the ‘recession’ category

Recession? Let them play golf

Donald Trump is as good as Keynesianism and better than a sovereign wealth fund. Spending £1bn on a Scottish golf course for toffs is an ideal way to offset recession.
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Blanchflower on the real economic truth

Interest rates will fall and inflation will plummet. That’s official: the Bank of England quietly said it while it thought no-one was listening.
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Why booms must always be bigger than slumps

Call it a mathematical trick, but if a bear market is a 20 per cent fall in share prices, a bull market must rise 25 per cent just to get back to where it started.
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The taxi drivers’ guide to recession

You can tell when times are tough because you can hail a taxi.  But there is more to this model of supply and demand than meets the eye.   (more…)