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Nouriel Roubini (born March 29, 1959) is an American economist. He anticipated the collapse of the United States housing market and the worldwide recession which started in 2008. He teaches at New York University's Stern School of Business and is the chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an economic consultancy firm.

Austrian School of economics and libertarian political and social theory. It is the mission of the Mises Institute to place human choice at the center of economic theory, to encourage a revival of critical historical research, and to advance the Misesian tradition of thought through the defense of the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

Michael Pettis is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a finance professor at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets.

At Economics.org.au, we put our reasoning front and centre. In brief, our argument is Gustave de Molinari's: If there is one well-established truth in political economy, it is this: That in all cases, for all commodities that serve to provide for the tangible or intangible needs of the consumer, it is in the consumer's best interest that labor and trade remain free, because the freedom of labor and of trade have as their necessary and permanent result the maximum reduction of price.

Well worth a read, even if by selective browsing, as it contains a lot of interesting information and proposals, a number of which are of direct relevance to the investment industry, particularly as they relate to rental properties, land ownership, and equity investments. (Opens in a pdf file)

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Longview Economics is an independent consultancy specialising in macroeconomic, thematic and commodity research. Founded in 2003 by CEO Chris Watling, Longview Economics offers strong macro and quantitative views across all major asset classes and markets.

The Federal Reserve is the Central Bank of the United States, they claim to provide " the nation with a safe, flexible and stable monetary and financial system."

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