Publication: Exame

01.10.08 Publication: Exame

This was supposed to be an American crisis, based on American subprime mortgages and American-style capitalism. So why do European banks seem now to be...

01.09.08 Publication: Exame

Japan is an endlessly frustrating country for all those who wish that the world’s second largest economy would do better. The sudden resignation on September...

01.08.08 Publication: Exame

Right now, with billions glued to their TV sets watching the Olympics, few would doubt that this year most of the world’s attention has been on China. Thanks...

01.07.08 Publication: Exame

It is always right to look at agreements made at the annual Group of Eight (G8) summits of rich-country leaders with skepticism. These summits are little more...

01.06.08 Publication: Exame

In what feels like the blink of an eye, the emerging markets have been transformed from being global agents of deflation to becoming the sources of a new wave...

01.05.08 Publication: Exame

THIS is the era of books about the rise of new eras. The debacle in Iraq, the decline in America’s worldwide reputation under George Bush, the credit crunch,...

01.04.08 Publication: Exame

In the first edition of this column in January 2007, it was noted that having enjoyed a boom of about five years, commodity prices had begun to fall. Prices of...

01.03.08 Publication: Exame

If you judge economic affairs according to the movements of financial markets, these are dramatic times. The collapse and rescue of Bear Stearns, America’s...

01.02.08 Publication: Exame

It is a good time to be an African. Does that statement surprise you? It might if you look at the violence in Kenya, or the continued slaughter in the Darfur...

01.01.08 Publication: Exame

One of the most famous sayings about investment came from one of the founders of the Rothschild banking family, Baron Nathan Rothschild. In the early 19th...

01.12.07 Publication: Exame

When the idea first came up, in the 1970s and 1980s, it was labelled as "the Pacific century", as it was assumed that the 21st century would be dominated by...

01.11.07 Publication: Exame

When finance ministers, bankers, central bankers and economists gathered in their thousands for the annual meetings of the World Bank and International...

01.10.07 Publication: Exame

Economic growth in Brazil in recent years has been disappointing, especially to the country’s many well-wishers abroad. During a commodity-price boom, and...

01.09.07 Publication: Exame

August was such a hot month in the financial markets that it brought out all the sweatiest old cliches in the market-commentators’ lexicon. Traders were said...

01.08.07 Publication: Exame

For the past five years, companies around the world have talked of “the China price”, by which they mean the lowest price in their industry. China has come...

01.07.07 Publication: Exame

The debate over climate change has moved on—thank goodness. The gathering in Heiligendamm, Germany in early June of the leaders of the G8 rich industrial...

01.06.07 Publication: Exame

We are in a post-ideological age. Unlike during the Cold War, there are no longer any easy labels to attach to ourselves, or with which to describe other...

01.05.07 Publication: Exame

At every stage during China’s remarkable three decades of economic growth, as the country shook off the dead hand of Maoist central planning, outsiders have...

01.04.07 Publication: Exame

So far, it has been the scary monster that has stayed in the forest. Economists have been worrying for at least two years, in some cases more, about the...

01.03.07 Publication: Exame

What is the secret of economic development? Many of those who studied the success of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and who now study...

01.02.07 Publication: Exame

In today’s globalised economy, with fast-growing and appealing countries like the BRICs, it is hard being a rich, mature economy like Japan. By comparison to...

01.01.07 Publication: Exame

The world economy has had such a fantastic four years that it has seemed almost rude, or perhaps imprudent, to ask why. The usual answer that is given is...