New Year - Economic Prospects

On the Economic Prospects for Advanced Economies:

Will there be an US Economic Boom in 2014?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/will-the-economy-boom-in-2014-101687.html

Edward Luce of the Financial Times has Written a Wise and Timely Column:

Anglo-Saxon trumpeting will strike a hollow note

Shinzo Abe on Japan’s Recovery

http://www.project-syndicate.org/print/shinzo-abe-unveils-a-concerted-effort-to-raise-japanese-workers--pay-

Economic Historian Nicholas Crafts Contrasts Recent Eurozone Crisis with the Great Depression Era

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-06/europe-s-prospects-looked-better-in-1930s.html

UPDATES:

France - The Next European Economic Trouble Spot?

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-06/more-evidence-france-is-the-new-sick-man-of-europe

Klaus Schwab on the Global Economy

http://www.project-syndicate.org/print/klaus-schwab-warns-that-the-world-is-entering-an-era-of-diminished-expectations-and-increased-uncertainty

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