MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
With global markets in a tailspin and the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 9 percent in the past month, jittery investors are wondering whether this is a second coming of the Great Recession and whether an increasingly insolvent United States and Europe's weak periphery will be able to weather the storm. Are we seeing the first slide into a double-dip recession? Is the euro doomed? And can China stay above the fray? Foreign Policy asked two of the world's most prescient market watchers, Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer, for their views about what they see in the months and years ahead.
Perhaps it's not surprising that Roubini, better known as Dr. Doom, sees the outlook as being "more scary" than it was two or three years ago -- but it's less systemic failures that concern him than the total inability of buffoonish politicians and weak governments to do anything about it. They're "out of policy bullets," says Roubini.
Bremmer is a bit more sanguine. "I don't believe that we're heading for a second recession," he says. "But I think that it's going to feel like a recession for an awful lot of people." What really worries him is China: While Europe and the United States try to muddle through the mess, "the Chinese are kicking a bigger can farther down the road than anyone else." In short, the global economy might get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
Comments
My inner Potter tells me that the best time to buy is when everyone else is selling. (I am not an accountant, so if you lose your shirt by following my advice then the mistake was yours for following my advice!)
by Verified Atheist on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:24am
I am buying ... food, mostly.
by Donal on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:30am
Me too Donal. Sometimes I think QFC would go out of business if it weren't for me.
by tmccarthy0 on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:48am
The best time to buy is when prices are low, so mostly you are supposed to buy when the sell off hit rock bottom, if you can determine what that is, I learned all I need to know about this from Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.
by tmccarthy0 on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:47am