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May 26, 2012
IMF: The Quest for Lasting Stability
Economist
Daily chart: China in your hand
Special report: China's economy -- Pedalling prosperity
Europe's biggest fear: A run they cannot stop

May 20, 2012
Economist
Confidence Game: The pain at JPMorgan and in Spain
Greece and the Euro: Exodus, Chapter 1
Daily Chart: The German Motor

May 11, 2012
Economist
Hope springs a trap
Europe's Achilles Heel
The Plastic Ocean 

May 4, 2012
Economist
America's Economy: The pace we've come to expect

Global trade: Worlds apart
The Euro-zone crisis: Going for growth, but how?
Edward Munch's "The Scream": Iconic Angst
The $cream: Most expensive artworks sold at auction

April 27, 2012
Economist 
The euro zone's rescue funds: Funny money, fuzzy maths 
European economy guide: Interactive map of currency, debt, etc. 
China's current account surplus: Fair play or foul? 

April 22, 2012
《财经》
利率汇率改革再推进  

April 21, 2012
Economist 
The science of civil war: What makes heroic strife -- Computer models that can predict the outbreak and spread of civil conflict are being developed
《财经》 
张曙光:高利差乱收费是银行高利润两大来源
温州金改
张曙光:保护产权攸关生命 政府却一再失误

April 17, 2012
Lost time: How many years of economic output has the rich world lost? 

April 16, 2012
IMF:
World Economic Outlook: April 2012
Economist
Return of the euro crisis: After the sugar rush
Social status and health: The misery index
《财经》
银行高利润背后阴影


April 7, 2012
Economist
All clear? The risk in clearing houses
Currency disunion: Why Europe's leaders should think the unthinkable?
Shadow banking in China: The Wenzhou experiment

April 1, 2012
Econbrowser
Halbert L. White, Jr., 1950-2012  By James Hamilton 

April 2, 2012
Economist
The global debt clock: An interactive overview of government debt across the planet
The World Bank: Hats off to Ngozi (A golden opportunity for the rest of the world to show Barack Obama the meaning of meritocracy)

March 30, 2012
Economist
Downdraft: European house prices are finding it harder to defy gravity
Pay, peers and pride: How older workers can find happiness
Time to be honest: A simple experiment suggests a way to encourage truthfulness

March 18, 2012
《财经》:审视资本账户开放

March 24, 2012
Economist: Rural poverty: Shifting the problem
The largest migration in history (Feb. 22, 2012, with flash display)

March 17, 2012
Economist: Body of Evidence: Is a concentration of wealth at the top to blame for financial crises?

March 10, 2012
Economist: The National People's Congress: Satisfy the People

Nov. 11, 2011
Economist: Keynes v Hayek in China 

Sept. 26, 2009
Economist: Much ado about multipliers

  
July 20, 2009
Economist: What went wrong with economics
 

 May 20, 2009
BBC: Pound strengthens against dollar
Bank of England
 
Mar. 29, 2009
 Economist articles:
- The Dollar as a reserve currency: handle with care
 
 Mar. 14, 2009
 Economist articles:
- China's Stimulus, got a light?
 
Jan. 30, 2009:
 Economist articles:
 - Rescue efforts: big government fights back
- Monetary policy: trapped
- (Nearly) nothing to fear but fear itself 
- Derivatives: drugstore cowboys 
 
Jan. 28, 2009:
 Economist articles:
 - China and America: war of words
 
 Jan. 22, 2009:
 From Visionary to Innovator
- Paolo Mauro profiles Robert J. Shiller
Finance and Development, December 2008, Volumn 45, Number 4.
 
CESifo Internet lecture:
"The Financial Crisis: Initial Conditions, Basic Mechanisms, and Appropriate Policies." (Link)
By Olivier Blanchard, Economic Counsellor and Chief Economist of the IMF, MIT Department of Economics.
 
 
Jan. 14, 2009:
 Hong Kong's exchange rate system and bond market  (slides)
 
 Jan. 9, 2009:
 Economist articles:
 - Risk Aversion: the bonds of time (Financial decisions are heavily influenced by early experiences.)
- Drastic time: gloom at the AEA meetings (Past crises inspire little confidence about the outcome of this one for America. )
- Yielding to none (The delimma facing investors in government bonds)
 
 Jan. 4, 2009:
 Economist articles:
 - The Euro at ten: testing times (see how spread between Italian government debt over german government debt widened recently.) 
 
 Jan. 1, 2009:
 Economist articles:
 - Parfume Science -- the scent of a man 
- The Federal Reserve -- Ground Zero
- China in 2009 -- year of the ox
- Higher education: the future is another country
- Emerging economists: International bright young things
 
 Dec.3, 2008:
 Financial literacy and education, some sources in the US:
- http://www.mymoney.gov/ - U.S. Financial Literacy and Education Commission
- U.S. Treasury - Office of Financial Eduation
- Federal Reserve - Personal Financial Education
- http://www.nefe.org/ - National Endowment for Financial Education
 
 Three Economist articles related to the Chinese real estate market and housing price:
 - Jun 20th 2008, Boom to bust -- China's property bubble is about to burst.
- Oct 9th 2008, Domino or Dynamo? -- China is pretty well placed to cushion a global downturn.
- Oct 23rd 2008, What goes up -- The housing market provides some nasty shocks to China's new middle classes.

 

Some useful websites

http://www.economist.com

http://www.economist.com/topics/chinese-markets

http://www.imf.org

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/fda.htm

www.bloomberg.com
www.federalreserve.gov
www.ustreas.gov
www.bankofengland.co.uk,

 
Federal Reserve governors and monetary policy
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Federal_Reserve
 
Paul Adolph Volcker (August 6, 1979 - August 11, 1987)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker
Alan Greenspan (August 11, 1987 - January 31, 2006)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan
Benjamin S. Bernanke (February 1, 2006 - )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke


US Debt

National Debt Clock
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Debt_Clock
 
2) http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1850269,00.html
 
-1) April 19, 2008                                                                        -2) October 9, 2008
 
3) 
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/260939 (with YouTube video clip)
 
Debt counter
http://zfacts.com/p/461.html
 
Historical and projected trend of US debt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt


The Global Debt

Economist
The global debt clock: An interactive overview of government debt across the planet 

Population Pyramids

http://populationpyramid.net/
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