Niall Ferguson

...it) to international financial stability, there's a fair bit of truth to this. To describe this new order, the British historian Niall Ferguson has coined the term "Chimerica." Combined, American and China account for one-quarter of the...

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...risk they take. This "moral hazard" is now a fact of life. Lehmans was truly no end of a lesson. Only the contrarian Niall Ferguson, whose The Ascent of Money is a majestic affair, as you'd expect, begs to differ from this emerging consensus.

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...the 7th floor opening windows and panicking, you're job is not to say 'Gosh Wall Street's panicking,' it's to look at facts." Niall Ferguson, Harvard professor and author of "Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World," had a...

In this article: John Mack, Financial crisis, Bloomberg TV, Vanity Fair, and Harvard

...bubbles. Rising deficits combined with a reserve currency causes inflows and lower rates. Both Professor Kenneth Rogoff and Niall Ferguson (Harvard) suggested on Bloomberg (October 29) that the fiscal imbalances in the world are now...

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Some market analysts have been referencing the 1930s in predicting where the market is headed next. Renown financial historian Niall Ferguson, for instance, recently said on "Charlie Rose" that the United States will suffer the same fate...

In this article: United States, Federal Reserve, Balance sheet, Electric car, World War II, and S&P 500

Thursday, November 12, 2009 - Added 1h ago Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson, whose "The Ascent of Money" book and TV series traced the world's financial system, last night painted a pessimistic prognosis for U.S. recovery unless...

In this article: Harvard, U.S., China, Unemployment, Deflationary spiral, Barack Obama, and Beijing

...by nature, and that is just not a political reality for the coming decade. The Eastern European Solution As it turned out, Niall Ferguson (last week I wrote about his brilliant book, The Ascent of Money) was in Dallas last night, and I...

In this article: Tax, Unemployment, Balance sheet, Recession, US, Hyperinflation, and FNM

...changing economy. It's pretty much identical to another neologism, coined a couple of years ago by the economic historians Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick to describe the Sino-American economic relationship. That one was...

In this article: China, United States, Harvard, Antagonism, Amplitude, Real estate bubble, and World War I

...Economic Perspectives: Audio The global financial crisis hasn't ended, said Harvard University professors Kenneth Rogoff and Niall Ferguson, who challenged assertions made by Group of 20 leaders at their meeting in Pittsburgh last month.

In this article: Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University, International Monetary Fund, Winston Churchill, and Pittsburgh

...physical side of math, this is an accessible introduction to Chaos Theory, which has been quite popular over the last 50 years. Niall Ferguson, "The Ascent of Money" -- Tells the history of banking, brilliantly written, giving great...

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