Economics: A closer look

200 years ago, economics were called "political economy" because the authors knew the connection between the two. Since then economics became a "science" and the connection to politics was forgotten. We try to bring this link back into consideration.

Sunday, 20 March 2016

Interesting fall-out from the dogfight among Britain's Conservatives

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The British conservative party is tearing itself apart over the EU referendum in June. The internecine fighting has reached new highs over ...

Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Fed: everything normal, so go back to work

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Writing about Federal Reserve's monetary policy is rarely exciting, same goes for reading comments about it. I am sorely tempted to s...

Friday, 11 March 2016

ECB's Bazooka?

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This time ECB delivered what the market expected in terms of easing. By some standards ECB even over-delivered by increasing the monthly bo...

Friday, 26 February 2016

Follow-up on Italian banks

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In a letter to Financial Times on 23 February, the Director-General of the Italian Treasury provides some info directly related to my previ...

Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Euro-Tarp? Maybe... look at Italy

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In the dying days of the Bush administration, then Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson introduced a US 1tn program called the Troubled ...

Monday, 22 February 2016

Cameron's nightmare - and EU's

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So the UK got a watered-down set of modifications to the various EU agreements, delivered with sufficient gravitas that Cameron could decla...

Friday, 19 February 2016

Same old, same old

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Famously, the rapper Eminem declared "I'm back" on one of his albums and reviewers noted with some surprise: Has he been gone...

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Kim Asger Olsen: Kim Asger Olsen is trained as an economist in Denmark, Italy, and France. He has worked as an investment strategist, a fund manager, CIO and a managing director in the European financial sector for 25 years. He writes about the important crossfield between politics and economics. He is a partner of Almagest Wealth Management SA and of Origo Advisory Services Sarl

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