Author: Dian Chu

By Charles Kennedy (Guest Post) The Nigerian Million March Project has announced its intention to organize peaceful marches in major cities around the world to call attention to the Nigerian government’s failure to provide...

By Eric Schaefer (via Doug Short) (Guest Post) On Wednesday, October 18th, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted after much delay and debate to impose position limits on 28 commodity futures and equivalent swap...

By John Daly (Guest Post) A recent study, released on 11 October, “Biofuel Markets and Technologies” released by Pike Research states that the global biofuel market will double within the next decade to $183.3...

By All About Alpha (via QFINANCE) (Guest Post) For the past few months, reporters, commenters, bloggers and twitterers have been frequently using the aggressive terminology of war to discuss economic matters. One of the most...

Downtown, Delhi, India By Anoop Singh (via iMFDirect) (Guest Post) With economic growth expected to continue at a reasonably good clip this year and next, it’s all too easy to think there’s not much to worry about....

By Poul M. Thomsen (via iMFdirect) (Guest Post) When I traveled to Reykjavik in October 2008 to offer the IMF’s assistance, the situation there was critical. The country’s three main banks–which made up almost...

By Michael Snyder (Guest Post) Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial casino. The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year in the derivatives market, and nobody in...