This is the Friday edition of our new Brussels Briefing. To receive it every morning in your email in-box, sign up here . Amid the doom and gloom surrounding the eurozone’s continued inability to shake off the funk that set in after the sovereign debt crisis started six years ago, policymakers have…

by Tue, 01/19/2016 - 19:57 0 SHARES The Fed may have officially tapered QE at the end of 2014 but that doesn't mean it is done buying Treasuries: since the Fed never ended rolling over maturing paper, it means that it will remain indefinitely active in the open market. And while there were no…

"If Assets Remain Correlated, There'll Be A Depression": Ray Dalio Says QE4 Just Around The Corner by Wed, 01/20/2016 - 23:15 0 SHARES CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin and Becky Quick, donning their finest goose down bubble coats to remind viewers they’re reporting live from scenic Davos, generously took…

Amalia Ulman’s spoof selfies tricked thousands – and made her the toast of the art world. She talks to Alastair Sooke I n April 2014, a young Argentinian-born artist called Amalia Ulman uploaded an im

by Tue, 01/19/2016 - 11:29 0 SHARES While most of new rounds of US QEs (2008, 2010, 2012), and Japan QE (2013) managed to depress volatility and boost asset pricing, late-cycle European QE failed to domesticate markets for long. By Q2, markets were already toppish, and volatility able to erupt, in…

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by Sun, 01/17/2016 - 21:31 0 SHARES Following an epic stock rout to start the year, one which has wiped out trillions in market capitalization, it has rapidly become a consensus view (even by staunch Fed supporters such as the Nikkei Times ) that the Fed committed a gross policy mistake by hiking…

Why is the economy barely growing after seven years of zero rates and easy money? Why are wages and incomes sagging when stock and bond prices have gone through the roof? Why are stocks experiencing such extreme volatility when the Fed increased rates by a mere quarter of a percent? It’s the policy,…

This Is What Janet Yellen Thinks Is The "Worst-Case Scenario" For The U.S. by Fri, 01/15/2016 - 13:21 0 SHARES One year ago, when the Fed released its 2009 transcript, we learned that after a terrible 2008 , the Fed's sense of humor gradually returned and instances of the word "laughter" in…

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Finance & economics | Open the door to green China's stocks and currency start 2016 with big tumbles |SHANGHAI|3 min read ONE of the many oddities of the topsy-turvy world of Chinese finance is that red is green and green is red. In most countries “going into the red” means losing money; stocks that…

British actor Alan Rickman passed away from cancer at age 69 yesterday, much to the grief of the entire world. Daniel Radcliffe, JK Rowling , Matthew Lewis, and the remainder of the Harry Potter clan began releasing statements honoring their dear friend as soon as the news came out, although none…

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David Bowie will be remembered for his music and style, but the late singer is also responsible for an important, but lesser known, contribution in another area: finance. In 1997, Bowie, along with his business manager and a banker named David Pullman, created an asset-backed security whose value…

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The City of London’s most vocal “bear” has warned that the world is heading for a financial crisis as severe as the crash of 2008-09 that could prompt the collapse of the eurozone. Albert Edwards, strategist at the bank Société Générale, said the west was about to be hit by a wave of deflation from…

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Fed Mouthpiece Reads "Liftoff" Tea Leaves by Wed, 01/06/2016 - 14:09 0 SHARES Last month, in what will likely be viewed in hindsight as an ill-fated attempt to begin the long and painful process of normalizing monetary policy, the Fed "went there." Janet Yellen raised rates. Investors were meant to…

Getty Images Neel Kashkari A memorable article in Rolling Stone referred to Goldman Sachs as a “vampire squid,” in large part because of all of the bank’s alumni in high-level government positions. Fair or not, the bank does seem to have a hold at the Federal Reserve. The last three appointments to…

Ben Bernanke REUTERS/Larry Downing The financial crisis and its immediate aftermath saw close cooperation among the world’s policymakers, especially central bankers. For example, in October 2008, the Federal Reserve coordinated simultaneous interest-rate cuts with five other major central banks. It…

Three things that, when mixed, can consume a surprising amount of disk space: Backup automatically with Time Machine Use iPhoto and take a lot of photos Sync photos to one or more iOS devices like iPhones and iPads I do all three, and on top of that I have three current computers backing up to a 1GB…

Kuukausiliite Kirjailija Laura Lindstedtin mielestä Suomessa taistellaan nyt elämisen ehdoista. Ilmapiiri on niin kova, että poliittinen murhakin on ”varteenotettava uhka”. (KUVA: Tuomas Marttila ) Kuukausiliite Finlandia-voittaja Laura Lindstedt pelkää, että Suomessa tehdään poliittinen murha…

(Illustration: Dawn Hudson/Shutterstock) "Trickle-down" economics began as a joke. Seriously. If there’s one person most often associated with the origins of of trickle-down economics, it’s President Ronald Reagan. Few people know, however, that the phrase was actually coined by American humorist…

On Dec. 16, 2015, the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve raised short term interest rates. The move ended more than seven years during which the Fed kept rates at a near zero 0.25 percent or less. The move raises critical questions about the global economy for 2016, already slowing significantly…

Vuosi 2016 on meille suomalaisille näytön paikka Avoin ja positiivinen asenne toisiimme sekä ympäröivään maailmaan ovat tehneet Suomesta ainutlaatuisen ja hyvän maan. Tämä henki meidän on löydettävä uudestaan, vaikka Suomen taloudessa jatkunut seitsemän vuoden alamäki, maailmanpolitiikan käänteet…

Avoimen keskustelun hengessä julkaisemme tämän Janne Saarikiven vastauksen Heikki Pursiaisen aiempaan Saarikiven ajatuksia käsitelleeseen kirjoitukseen. Pursiaisen tympeä ad hominem Liberan blogissa on pitkä Heikki Pursiaisen kirjoitus omistettu yhden henkilön haukkumiseen. Tässä narsismin…

Aikojen synkkyydestä kertoo, että sivistyksen ja yliopiston yhdeksi näkyvimmäksi puolestapuhujaksi on valikoitunut kielentutkija Janne Saarikivi. Saarikivi on arvostellut näyttävästi hallituksen koulutuspolitiikkaa blogikirjoituksissa ja puheissa. Hän on esiintynyt tiedotusvälineissä jatkuvasti…

Vuosi 2015 on lopussa, ja annus Domini 2016 alkaa. Ajan taitekohdassa voimme pohtia, onko aika, jota elämme, hyvä vai huono. Jos luette tällaista suomenkielistä asiaproosaa, kuulutte todennäköisesti noin kymmeneen prosenttiin ihmiskunnasta, joka omistaa lähes kaiken maailman varallisuuden. Ehkäpä…

Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis intends to form a pan-European movement in February, with the aim of “democratizing” Europe. Varoufakis revealed his intentions in an interview that is due to be published on Thursday by Italian weekly magazine L’Espresso. Varoufakis said he wants to show…

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I think the progressive side of politics has a real problem when it is increasingly gazumped in policy insights by politicians and/or commentators from the populist, xenophobic, racist, homophobic, far right-wing. Whether Finland’s Foreign Minister Timo Soini is all of those things or just…

by Mon, 12/21/2015 - 20:30 0 SHARES The complicated financial landscape today has made everyone "slaves to the central bank" while ordinary people have found themselves stuck in debt, and spending all they have just to get by . The few who are able to save at all have lost value by saving during…

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2,3,4,5. Those are the 4 numbers you need to know to understand how The Fed thinks. Driven by its underlying model of the economy, The Fed thinks that the inflation rate should be 2%, the growth rate should be 3%, the Fed Funds Rate should be 4%, and the unemployment rate should be 5%. Then the…

Play ‘Janet Yellen’ Bingo Play ‘Janet Yellen’ Bingo » The Federal Reserve’s Dec. 15-16 policy meeting is finally here. The Fed is expected to raise rates. We’ve compiled some of the central bank’s frequent themes and phrases. Watch Janet Yellen’s press conference at 2:30 p.m. ET on WSJ.com/economics…

show chapters Fed raises rates 2:05 PM ET Wed, 16 Dec 2015 | 01:18 This is a comparison of Wednesday's FOMC statement with the one issued after the Fed's previous policy-making meeting on Oct. 28. Text removed from the October statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle. Text…