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Kenneth Rogoff, on the prospects for the U.S. and global economy under the Trump administration in 2017-2020
12/08/2016
Grouped Articles
Will Trump herald a US economic boom?
The Guardian 12/07/2016
Fed Raises Rates for First Time in 2016, Anticipates 3 Increases in 2017
WSJ 12/14/2016
Aging Population, Stagnant Productivity Challenge Donald Trump’s Growth Plan
WSJ 12/04/2016
Opinion: Trump in offside position | Business | DW.COM | 12.01.2017
DW.COM 01/12/2017
Within Trump’s inner circle, a moderate voice captures the president’s ear
Washington Post 04/14/2017
Trump Plans to Seek Tax Rate of 15% on Owner-Operated Companies
WSJ 04/25/2017
Banned 500 and 1000 rupee notes (demonetisation) in India to fight corruption and black money in 2016
11/11/2016
Grouped Articles
Crowds Line Up at India’s Banks to Exchange Banned Rupee Notes
The New York Times 11/10/2016
Arvind Kejriwal: The fiery BBC interview that went viral in India - BBC News
BBC News 11/21/2016
India Hobbles Through a Cash Crisis, and Electronic Payments Boom
The New York Times 12/13/2016
India’s Forecast for Economic Growth Set to Show Impact of Cash Crunch
WSJ 01/06/2017
The Cash Transfusion Critical to Curing India’s Anemic Economy – The Numbers
WSJ 02/13/2017
How India’s Taxman Is Using Cash-Crackdown Deposit Deluge to Ensnare Evaders
WSJ 02/08/2017
Long term negative effects of Trump's economic plan for the U.S. in contrast to positive long term effects of the Clinton plan
10/18/2016
With huge borrowing and estimated at $5.3 trillion deficit Trump's economic plan has negative long term effects. It is also vague and absent many necessary details. The Clinton economic plan has positive long term effects, is careful with the deficit, and spells out the specifics. Clinton's economic plan helps to reduce wide wealth disparities pointed out by Fed chairman Janet Yellen, and increases societal integration of less advantaged groups. While the Trump Plan aggravates social tensions by increasing the share of the national income going to the wealthy at a time when unprecedented wealth disparities exist in American society.
Grouped Articles
Donald Trump’s Tax Plan Would Boost Economy in Short Run but Not Long Term, Analysis Finds
WSJ 10/17/2016
Donald Trump’s Economic Plan, Up Close, Doesn’t Add Up
WSJ 10/18/2016
Taxes Under Trump: Almost Everyone Pays Less and the Richest Pay a Lot Less
WSJ 12/02/2016
The Economy’s Hidden Problem: We’re Out of Big Ideas
WSJ 12/06/2016
Will the Trump Era Bring Higher Interest Rates? Don’t Count On It
The New York Times 12/14/2016
Aging Population, Stagnant Productivity Challenge Donald Trump’s Growth Plan
WSJ 12/04/2016
U.S. banks new role in 2016-2025- views of Senator Sherrod Brown, former FDIC head Sheila Bair, the Federal Reserve's Daniel Tarullo
06/03/2016
Bair, Brown and Tarullo articulate a new role for banks in the the next decade after the effects felt over the last decade following the global financial crisis of 2008.
Grouped Articles
Banks Shouldn’t Forget Main Street
WSJ 06/03/2016
Today’s Bank: Necessity, Mystery, Whipping Boy
WSJ 06/03/2016
Fed Governors Signal Bigger Bank Capital Requirements Looming
WSJ 06/03/2016
Lower minimum down payments of 10-15% and lower minimum FICO credit scores in the jumbo loan mortgages market with strong loan performance in 2015
08/05/2015
Strong loan performance with scores of 770 and down payments of 32%, according to CoreLogic is leading to increased competition in this sector by major banks, Chase, Wells Fargo, PNC and Bank of America. Jumbo originations are back up to 2005 levels at 20.1% in 2015, as the stock market recovery progresses.
Grouped Articles
J.P. Morgan Loosens Terms for Jumbo Mortgages
Wall Street Journal 08/05/2015
Australia's real estate market 2014-2016
04/28/2015
Real estate prices are rising rapidly in Australia. A Demogrpahia think tank survey on housing affordability for 2015 shows home prices as a multiple of annual income, with Sydney at 9.8, Melbourne at 8.7 and Wollongong near Sydney at 7.5, compared to London at 8.5 and New York at 6.1. Household debt as a percentage of annual income is climbing in Australia since 2009, whereas it dropped sharply in the UK and the U.S. In Australia this is close to 200%, UK little below 150% and U.S. little above 100%.
Grouped Articles
Think New York Housing Is Expensive? Try Wollongong
Wall Street Journal 04/28/2015
Australian Property Lending Gets Aggressive, Sparking Fears of Banking Crisis
Wall Street Journal 06/26/2015
In Australia, China’s Appetite Shifts From Rocks to Real Estate
The New York Times 09/24/2016
China Investment Corporation chairman, Ding Xuedong's view of the global economy from the Boao Forum in March 2015
03/29/2015
Grouped Articles
China’s CIC Gearing Up Investment in Overseas Assets
Wall Street Journal 03/29/2015
On Globalization, China and Trump Are Closer Than They Appear
WSJ 01/27/2017
Lennar Corp., KB Home, and other home builders promoting solar panels in new home construction 2014-2015
12/02/2014
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2014
Foreign investment and returns in Japan's residential real estate market 2004-2014
11/21/2014
Grouped Articles
Blackstone to Buy General Electric’s Japan Property Portfolio
Wall Street Journal 11/21/2014
Foreclosures and housing prices in Spain in 2013-2015
05/28/2014
A decline in housing prices in 2014. Foreclosures continue to remain a problem in 2014.
Grouped Articles
Spain Still Suffering Fallout From Housing Bust
Wall Street Journal 05/28/2014
Spanish House Prices Decline Again
Wall Street Journal 05/28/2014
Tumbling Interest Rates in Europe Leaves Some Banks Owing Money on Loans to Borrowers
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2015
The U.S. housing market 2014-2016
05/27/2014
Grouped Articles
Home Prices Start Easing, to the Relief of Experts
New York Times 05/27/2014
Buyers Not Clamoring for New Homes
Wall Street Journal 08/26/2014
Wall Street Journal 04/22/2015
Sluggish Housing Starts Belie Builders’ Confidence
Wall Street Journal 04/22/2015
The Housing Market Is Finally Starting to Look Healthy
The New York Times 08/23/2016
The Trump cabinet and Wall Street, financial, real estate interests
12/02/2016
Grouped Articles
Trump's billionaire cabinet could be the wealthiest administration ever
The Guardian 12/02/16
Trump’s Economic Cabinet Picks Signal Embrace of Wall St. Elite
The New York Times 12/01/16
Seduced and Betrayed by Donald Trump
The New York Times 12/02/16
POLITICO Magazine 12/30/17
Corruption and black illicit money in India and the action taken by the Modi government in November 2016
11/09/2016
Grouped Articles
India invalidates large bank notes in crackdown on crime
Washington Post 11/09/16
Crowds Line Up at India’s Banks to Exchange Banned Rupee Notes
The New York Times 11/10/16
Assembly elections 2017: Modi writ large in BJP’s sweeping victory in UP, Uttarakhand
http://www.hindustantimes.com/ 03/11/17
Narendra Modi’s Party Wins Big in Uttar Pradesh, India’s Largest State
The New York Times 03/11/17
UP Elections 2017: A Modi victory means a consolidation of majoritarian democracy
http://www.hindustantimes.com/ 03/11/17
Big firms in India face new competition
The Economist 08/26/17
S&P-Shiller housing price index for 20 major U.S. cities in 2015-2016
08/24/2016
Grouped Articles
The Housing Market Is Finally Starting to Look Healthy
The New York Times 08/23/16
Macy's flagship store in New York City
08/26/2015
Grouped Articles
What Should Macy’s Do With Its Flagship Store?
Wall Street Journal 08/26/15
Macy’s Fights Downward Spiral With Bet on Off-Price Backstage Stores
Wall Street Journal 11/12/15
Macy’s to Cut Costs, Thousands of Jobs
Wall Street Journal 01/07/16
A recovery in the high end mortgage market with the stock market recovery by 2015
08/05/2015
Grouped Articles
J.P. Morgan Loosens Terms for Jumbo Mortgages
Wall Street Journal 08/05/15
After a Tumultuous Year for Investors, the Experts Look Ahead
New York Times 12/31/15
U.S. housing prices 1st quarter 2015
04/22/2015
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/22/15
Sluggish Housing Starts Belie Builders’ Confidence
Wall Street Journal 04/22/15
Wall Street Journal 05/12/15
The Housing Market Is Finally Starting to Look Healthy
The New York Times 08/23/16
A return to 2008 crisis problems in home mortgages and residential real estate markets in 2014-2015 - (1) home appraisals
12/02/2014
Grouped Articles
Dodgy Home Appraisals Are Making a Comeback
Wall Street Journal 12/02/14
Home appraisals in the U.S. and overvaluation by 20% in 2014- a return to problems from the 2008-2009 mortgage crisis
12/02/2014
Grouped Articles
Dodgy Home Appraisals Are Making a Comeback
Wall Street Journal 12/02/14
Hong Kong housing and real estate prices defying logic - 275 square foot microflats for $722,000 in 2014
11/18/2014
A 300% increase in prices compared to 2003. Real estate experts see the prospect of a fall in the property prices as U.S. interest rates rise. Hong Kong mortgage interest rates are tied to U.S. rates. The property market collapsed in 2003 with the Asian financial crisis leading to many foreclosed homes.
Grouped Articles
In Hong Kong, One-Bedroom Apartments That Could Fit in a Bedroom
New York Times 11/18/14
In Hong Kong, the Apartments Are Fit for a Mosquito
Wall Street Journal 06/03/15
Hong Kong parking space sells for world-record US$760,000
South China Morning Post 06/05/18
Austin, Texas real estate 2014
09/24/2014
Grouped Articles
Austin Office Space: More Supply, Less Demand? Guess Again
Wall Street Journal 09/24/14
Changes in the banking industry's connections with real estate 2006-2015: Real estate linked share of bank assets declines to 38.6% in 2014 compared to 48.6% in 2006
06/09/2014
Of the 38% only 12% are home loans in 2014. Bank earnings from real estate are discounted by the market after the bad experience of the 2008 financial crisis. The level of 38% was last seen in 1987.
Grouped Articles
U.S. Banks Move Away From Home
Wall Street Journal 06/09/14
All cash buyers in the U.S. housing market in 2014
05/27/2014
WIth the higher performance of the stock market wealthy seniors are paying all cash to buy starter homes for their children or additional homes. Instituitonal investors such as Black Rock have retrenched a bit from large investments in housing. Other cash buyers are wealthy foreign investors, including investors from Russia seeking investments outside the country as capital flows abroad in the current unrest.
Grouped Articles
More home buyers are bringing all-cash offers to the table - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/27/14
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