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Russia’s oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.
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 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.
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.
The financial and economic crash of 2008, the worst in over 75 years, is a major geopolitical setback for the United States and Europe.
I don’t think there’s a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.
The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.
Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.
In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can’t function.
The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It’s not the Treasury. It’s not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.
The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy – not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.
We live in an era where the global capital markets are the super power in the world, and when they move against you as they’ve moved against Russia, as we’ve all seen in the ruble, there’s nothing that can stop that.
Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.
I think Obamacare, for all its controversy, is actually working.
Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn’t provide for revenue growth, and I think that’s a big driver.
