US economic growth is likely to slow sharply this year and next, according to CNBC's Fed Survey

Economy | March 19, 2019

The average forecast for GDP growth this year is just 2.3 percent because of the trade battle and slowing global growth, the March survey found.[FULL STORY]

The long Afghan war takes a toll on children

Reuters Video: World News | March 19, 2019

In a country where half the population is younger than 15, Afghanistan's 17-year war has arguably hit children the hardest. Twelve-year-old Zabiullah Mujahed hustles every day to shine shoes, one of the countless number of Afghan children orphaned or forced to work on the...[FULL STORY]

Creating a new marketplace for resilient infrastructure investment

Brookings Topics - U.S. Economic Performance | March 18, 2019

By Joseph Kane, Adie TomerContents  Understanding the stormwater investment challenge and opportunity What do we mean by a resilience marketplace? Better define the environmental and economic...[FULL STORY]

Where progress with China is most likely—and where it isn’t

Brookings Topics - Asia and the Pacific | March 18, 2019

By David DollarThe beginning of China’s rise as a global power can be dated to the country’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. Throughout the next 16 years of the Bush and Obama administrations, the United States engaged in intensive bilateral diplomacy with China with the aim...[FULL STORY]

مخطّطات البحر الأحمر

Brookings Topics - Middle East and North Africa | March 17, 2019

By Zach Vertinغدا البحر الأحمر سريعاً حلبةً للتآمر الجيوسياسي، على ضوء الالتزام الجديد بين الدول الخليجية والأفريقية الذي يتحدّى الافتراضات القديمة ويمحو الحدود القديمة. وتقود المصالح الاقتصادية...[FULL STORY]

Smoothing fracking’s boom/bust cycle

Brookings Topics - North America | July 29, 2016

Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, discusses a plan to address the economic boom-bust cycle in states that rely heavily on “fracking” and how this...[FULL STORY]

Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution

Brookings Topics - Europe | March 18, 2019

By Steven PiferMarch 18 marks the fifth anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, which capped the most blatant land grab in Europe since World War II. While the simmering conflict in Donbas now...[FULL STORY]

Monetary Insanity

Larry Davidson's Thoughts on Macro and Other Stuff | March 19, 2019

On Thursday March 14, Stephen Moore and Louis Woodhill wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal called “The Fed is a Threat to Growth”.  I think Moore and Woodhill (M&W) are a threat to growth!Here’s their story in a nutshell. President Trump has restored...[FULL STORY]

Mish Moved Off Blogger to MishTalk.Com - For Email Alerts Please Sign Up Again on MishTalk!

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis | March 20, 2016

I announced on February 22 Goodbye Blogger, Hello WordPress: Mish's GlobalEconomicAnalysis has Moved to MishTalk.Com. My needs outgrew blogger.The top reason is that...[FULL STORY]

Government 101

Jerry Jasinowski | January 16, 2018

The Need For True Government Reform– by Jerry Jasinowski The spectacle of President Trump sitting at a table with maybe two[FULL STORY]