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[Economists' Forum] Why China must do more to rebalance its economy: That became obvious at the “summer Davos” of the World Economic Forum, in Dalian, less than two weeks ago. Chinese confidence was palpable.

[Brad DeLong's Egregious Moderation] Martin Wolf: Why China must do more to rebalance its economy: The big point for China is that, like it or not - and it is perfectly clear to even the casual visitor that many Chinese dislike it intensely - the explosive rise in trade and current account surpluses of the mid-2000s is an unrepeatable event.

[KMG Advisors] Martin Wolf Agrees: China Needs to Increase Consumption: It is important to understand how distorted China’s economy now is: in 2007, personal consumption was just 35 per cent of GDP. Meanwhile, China was investing 11 per cent of GDP in low-yielding foreign assets, via its current account surplus.

[GHPC Latest] House Price Crash - Is it global ?: How mistaken ideas helped to bring the economy down. By Martin Wolf Published: October 27 2009 20:27 | Last updated: October 27 2009 20:27. How did the world economy fall into such a deep hole? It is recovering, but painfully, ...

[DailyFX Forum - Blogs] Mr. King Comes Clean and the Market Seems to Like It - DailyFX Forum: Despite UK politicians trying to play down the role financial play in the UK economy, in their attempt to exploit populist anger (as has been done everywhere)—and for good reason in many cases no doubt—it seems Mr. King is signaling how clearly he understands the benefits which flow to the UK economy from its competitive advantage in financial services, as his proposed reforms gives politicos a little of what they want and don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[Economists' Forum] FT.com | Economists' Forum | Do not learn wrong lessons from ...: The failure of Lehman Brothers just under two weeks later and the ensuing crisis at AIG, the insurance giant, turned complacency into terror. The financial system plunged into an abyss, dragging the economy behind it.

[J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles] Three Things Very Much Worth Reading From Martin Wolf: Meanwhile, as one senior Chinese participant at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of “the new champions”, in Dalian, noted, “the teachers have made big mistakes”. Indeed, any visitor to Asia will recognise the west's reputation .

[Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor] RGE - Roubini Interview with Financial Times' Martin Wolf: The influential New York University professor tells Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, which policy prescriptions the G-20 leaders should adopt at their forthcoming meeting. ...

[Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog] Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Blog: Programme of the ...: Oki Matsumoto, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Monex Group, Japan; Stephen S. Roach, Chairman, Asia, Morgan Stanley, Hong Kong SAR; Kiat Sittheeamorn, President of Thailand Trade Representative; Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and ...

[ASA Globalog] ASA Globalog :: The financial crisis, a view from a Brazilian barrio.: For instance, China’s rapid growth since Deng Xiaoping’s reform in 1981 did not go into personal consumption (the national saving rate is nearly 50 per cent of the total annual output) but into stacks of US government debts.

[Economists' Forum] FT.com | Economists' Forum | After the storm comes a hard climb: Contact: You can write to Martin Wolf using this email format: firstname.surname@ft.com. Time: UK time is shown on our posts.

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