Economy

Don’t Fly Too Close to the Ocean, Icarus

The European region and the Euro are both tanking as a result of the unexpected in Greece. This has prompted a severe tank in the stock market. Continue reading

Greekonomics 101

Until recently, most of us Americans knew Greece as the birthplace of Western Civilization (and an idyllic Mediterranean tourist spot.) Now there’s doomsday talk of Greece’s debt crisis causing another global recession, or a collapse. Continue reading

Greece: The Next GM?

Can an entire government go bankrupt and be bailed out? As Greece is currently showing us, fiscal and monetary policies are no laughing matter. If government spending does not get reigned in, national debts can cripple more than the governments that cause them. Continue reading

Why China is Not a Communist State – Part 3

In my last blog I discussed how China emerged from its Communist past and implemented liberalizing market reforms. To conclude the series of China-related blogs, it makes sense to discuss the economic situation in China today. China has increasingly become entrenched within world politics, and is on track to become a challenge to the USA’s economic hegemony. Continue reading