Category Archives: Global Economy

The Financial Crisis – Update

The financial crisis which erupted in 2007 caused a very deep balance sheet recession. It’s effects are still leaving a dark cloud over the global economy. There are real concerns over persistently high levels of unemployment, sovereign default in the Eurozone, and a double dip recession. After the initial stimulus attempts of 2008 and 2009, [...]

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Can Your Business Survive Without A Loan?

Many businesses fall on hard times when the economy slows down. While the broad trends impacting the business community create problems for large and small firms alike, some businesses tend to have less flexibility and less opportunities for downsizing during an economic crises. There are many precautions a business can take, however, to not only [...]

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Recession, Inflation, Economic Depression, and Austerity

Recession In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction, a general slowdown in economic activity. During recessions, many macroeconomic indicators vary in a similar way. Production, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), employment, investment spending, capacity utilization, household incomes, business profits, and inflation all fall, while bankruptcies and the unemployment rate rise. A [...]

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The Global Financial System

The global financial system (GFS) is the financial system consisting of institutions and regulators that act on the international level, as opposed to those that act on a national or regional level. The main players are the global institutions, such as International Monetary Fund and Bank for International Settlements, national agencies and government departments, e.g., [...]

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Global Agenda: The real story

There has never been a ‘recovery’ in which so little was recovered by so many, after so much had been lost. There are two ways of looking at the world. One is to read the news every day and garnish it with the instant analysis that the mainstream media serve up in ever-larger helpings. That [...]

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