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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 9, 2012
current account deficit, which measures the gap between what the country takes in from export income, investment income, and cash transfers and what it pays out, peaked at nearly 6% of GDP in 2006 and was down to 3.1% of GDP in 2011. But it will be the end of the remarkably free-wheeling era in global finance and U.S.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2012
Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 4, 2013
"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers in 2006. Meaning that you can never get truly scientific answers out of GDP or unemployment numbers. And then, well, things didn't go so well.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 7, 2014
Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan was never a hardline believer in the rationality of financial markets. It’s true of GDP. It’s true of all commodity markets. I mean, I was really put down.
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