Recent Posts

6 killed as Congo security forces, protesters clash

Bloomberg At least six people died when security forces clashed with anti-government protesters in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, the United Nations said. Police and soldiers fired teargas and live rounds to disperse thousands of Catholic Church worshipers as they left morning services in Kinshasa and attempted to march to protest President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step down. Similar ...

Read More »

Help companies avoid layoffs in recessions

One of the hardest questions in economics is mobility versus stability. What happens to workers who are displaced by recessions, technological and industrial change, regional shifts, or corporate failure? Can humans move fluidly from occupation to occupation, industry to industry, and city to city, like interchangeable parts in a well-oiled economic machine, always going to where their contributions will be ...

Read More »

China didn’t implode under debt

China’s economic performance is all about what hasn’t happened. That’s huge. The world’s No. 2 economy didn’t implode under a mountain of debt, nor did trade tensions with the US bring exports undone. And there certainly hasn’t been the trade war many feared a year ago. The country’s growing reliance on services and consumption as an engine of growth — ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend