Zitat des Tages von Roger Altman:
Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.
Cheap natural gas is a big stimulus to petrochemical production and a meaningful one for all U.S. manufacturing.
Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.
In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.
The United States is much further along because its financial crisis struck three years before Europe's, in 2008, causing headwinds that have pressured it ever since.
The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.
There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.
I think Obamacare, for all its controversy, is actually working.
Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.
In September 2008, the overleveraged and undermanaged U.S. banking system suffered a terrifying collapse. And that, in turn, nearly took the whole country down.
The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.
Mergers generate substantial synergies.
The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.
Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.
