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Prospect magazine ranks Nouriel Roubini as Top Public Intellectual

Posted on December 31, 2008 by John Ashcroft
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Earlier this year Prospect teamed up with Foreign Policy to list the world’s 100 greatest living public intellectuals. The panel were instructed to measure on three criteria: novelty, real-world impact, and intellectual pizzazz. Here we list the top three including … Read More

Tagged Dr Doom, Nouriel Roubini, Prospect Magazine, Top Public Intellectuals, US Economy | 1 Reply

UK Winter surge of redundancies predicted

Posted on December 30, 2008 by John Ashcroft
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Next year will be the worst for jobs for almost 20 years, with a net reduction of at least 600,000 people in employment. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is predicting a "winter surge" of redundancies in the … Read More

Tagged CIPD, redundancies, UK Economics, UK Economy, Unemployment | Leave a reply

First the Germans then the Church, now the Austrians attack

Posted on December 30, 2008 by John Ashcroft
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I like Peter Schiff and enjoy the occasional visit to Europacific. Peter Schiff is a supporter of the Austrian school of economics. The Austrian school is predominantly laissez-faire with a belief in the self correcting mechanism of market excess. In … Read More

Tagged Austrian school, Euro Pacific Capital, Peter Schiff, UK Economics, UK Economy | Leave a reply

Economic Model accuracy and the Tiger Woods PGA Tour

Posted on December 29, 2008 by John Ashcroft
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Writing the post on economic forecast accuracy in 2008 brought to mind the early stages of the UK computer modelling process. It was in 1966 Jim Ball and Terry Burns at the London Business School devised the first computer model … Read More

Tagged Economic Models, Hewlett Packard, London Business School, UK Economy, UK forecasts | Leave a reply

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