Urbanomics

1. Large is not always good. Marc Levinson writes how the latest giant container ships have, instead of lowering transport costs and raisin...

It was just a week back that the markets were celebrating a much debated deal to bailout Greece in return for structural reforms and auster...

Here is a comparative assessment of the panic affecting Greek, Portuguese, and Italian government debt instruments. The spreads between the ...

Zero Hedge quotes the latest report from the US Office of the Currency Comptroller and writes about the extreme concentration of derivative...

Here is a grapical representation of European national debts, with countries sized in proportion to their respective sovereign debts. Notice...

The inevitable sovereign default climax to the Hellenic tragedy appears to get closer with the downgrading of Greek debt by Standard & P...

So finally, after months of speculation, and faced with spiralling borrowing costs, Portugal bows to pressure and follows Greece and Ireland...

Paul Krugman makes an interesting comparison between the relative paths adopted by Iceland and Ireland when faced with similar financial cri...

Sample this paean about the Irish economic model (in the context of which model Europeans should follow) by the high-prophet of globalizat...

Amidst all the attention on Greece, Ireland had fallen off the radar, especially after its much-praised embrace of fiscal austerity. Howeve...

The travails of the Greek economy resembles a Hellenic tragedy and, as Martin Feldstein recently wrote , default (or "restructuring...

It was slightly long in coming, but had to happen. The Goldman Sachs enigma (the "perpetual money making machine") has finally bee...

We are used to having investment banks charging their clients large sums for maanging their investments. But among the many wonders of the m...