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Brian Butler wrote a new post, Trend – China to continue being the world’s largest energy consumer, by a wide margin @theecon 18 hours, 33 minutes ago

Brian Butler wrote a new post, Trend: “economies moving backwards”? see this interesting analysis from @theeconomist ( 18 hours, 33 minutes ago

Brian Butler wrote a new post, Top macro-economic trends for 2012 18 hours, 40 minutes ago

Underlying Trends that are Shaping our World Today
Welcome to our ongoing discussion of global “macro” trends that we think are the most important to keep an eye on. We are interested in global trends, how they […]

Brian Butler wrote a new post, United States’ economy: Over-regulated America | The Economist 6 days, 21 hours ago

“There are nine codes relating to injuries caused by parrots, and three relating to burns from flaming water-skis.” @theeconomist

Trend: increased regulation

Brian Butler wrote a new post, Economists’ Forum | Economics blog from the Financial Times – FT.com 1 week, 2 days ago

Do you think it’s true?…”from Greece to Iceland, governments are acting as enforcers or even as collection agents on behalf of the financial sector — and Iceland stands as a dress rehearsal for this power grab.”. […]

Brian Butler wrote a new post, Economists’ Forum | Economics blog from the Financial Times – FT.com 1 week, 2 days ago

Debate: do capital controls hurt? “some policy-makers and economists have decried capital controls as protectionist measures that can cause spillovers that unduly harm other nations”.

Read this interesting […]

Brian Butler wrote a new post, Davos 2012: Income Inequality Becomes An Issue At World Economic Forum For First Time 1 week, 3 days ago

On the global debate about “fixing capitalism” …”Klaus Schwab said he remained a deep believer in free markets but that capitalism is out of whack and needs to be fixed “to serve society.” He welcomed critics’ […]

Brian Butler wrote a new post, Davos 2012: Income Inequality Becomes An Issue At World Economic Forum For First Time 1 week, 3 days ago

inequality the issue: “Unilever’s Polman said it’s unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.

Brian Butler wrote a new post, Davos 2012: Income Inequality Becomes An Issue At World Economic Forum For First Time 1 week, 3 days ago

forecast for global growth in 2012 to 3.3 percent from the 4 percent pace it projected in September. Many other economic forecasters also predict a slowing economy, including New York University’s Nouriel Roubini, […]

Brian Butler wrote a new post, Davos 2012: Income Inequality Becomes An Issue At World Economic Forum For First Time 1 week, 3 days ago

Trend: Income Inequality Becomes An Issue At World Economic Forum For First Time @Huffington_Post

Brian Butler wrote a new post, The debate of Big vs Small-government (part 1) 1 week, 6 days ago

This blog was originally posted in March of 2009 and is placed here on our homepage for all to see. The idea is to stimulate philosophical debate on the role of government. Which way do you see the world […]

Brian Butler wrote a new post, The long view: And the winner is… | The Economist 2 weeks ago

Trend from @theeconomist “THE RISE OF state capitalism constitutes one of the biggest changes in the world economy in recent years. Twenty years ago state firms were nothing more than parts of the government […]

Brian Butler wrote a new post, Dollar weighted index vs basket of currencies: The Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against 2 weeks ago