Posts tagged: Economy

Book roundup — recent reading

Here are short opin­ions on some of the books that I have read since the begin­ning of  June. Smile or die: How pos­i­tive think­ing fooled Amer­ica and the world by Bar­bara Ehren­re­ich (2009). After fin­ish­ing this book last night, my pre­vi­ously sus­pi­cious atti­tude towards the plethora of self-help and pos­i­tive think­ing books out there has been reinforced. […]

Sunday October 17th, 2010 in , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Sweden ranked as second most competitive nation

With Swedish par­lia­ment elec­tions com­ing up in a lit­tle more than a week, it is reported that the World Eco­nomic Forum (WEF) has, again, ranked Swe­den as one of the most com­pet­i­tive nations in the world. Accord­ing to the new Global Com­pet­i­tive­ness Report 2010–2011, Swe­den is now the sec­ond most com­pet­i­tive nation in the world, second […]

Thursday September 9th, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »

FLAKY countries">European crisis, cont’d — the FLAKY countries

Fears of a rein­forced Euro­pean cri­sis are still lurk­ing around despite polit­i­cal agree­ment on a huge finan­cial sup­port pro­gramme. First, con­cerns regarded the “Club Med”, includ­ing Por­tu­gal, Italy, Greece and Spain, wit­tily abbre­vi­ated PIGS. Then there was Ire­land. Adjust­ment was needed, and famous econ­o­mist Paul Krug­man came to help. Com­par­ing the economies of a num­ber of […]

Monday June 7th, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »

Is Greece the beginning of a larger European crisis?

I’m read­ing that Nobel lau­re­ate Paul Krug­man pre­dicts that Greece will have to leave the Euro­pean Mon­e­tary Union (EMU) and aban­don the euro. Going to the source, I found that this piece of news ori­gins from a post on Krugman’s own blog. Greece aban­don­ing the euro would rock the very foun­da­tions of the EMU and […]

Friday May 7th, 2010 in , , , | 1 Comment »