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Assorted Links (4 Jan 2010)
4th January 2010
1/ Washington Post - A Lost Decade for the US Economy - a set of ten charts covering the performance of the US economy over the last ten years. The U.S. economy has expanded at a healthy clip for most of the last 70 years, but by a wide range of measures, it stagnated in the first decade of the new millennium.
2/ New Zealand Herald - How to Sex Up Economics - an interview with the Undercover Economist Tim Harford. “Economics is an entirely appropriate discipline for studying things like relationships, military engagement or racial discrimination.”
3/ Sunday Times - This decade will tip the economy to the east - David Smith on changing economic power - “The big picture is that the world economy is recovering. That recovery is, however, heavily skewed towards emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil”
4/ Sunday Telegraph - Developing nations emerge from shadows as sun sets on the West - Liam Halligan
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.