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China's Stock-Market Red Herring
Business, Jeffrey Frankel, Published on 01/02/2016
» With the Shanghai composite index down more than 40% since last June, investors worldwide are watching the decline with growing concern -- but not because they are invested in the plummeting market (China stocks are overwhelmingly held by Chinese). Rather, the fear is that plunging equity prices mean that China's economy is going down the tubes.
It's time to overhaul the price of fuel
News, Jeffrey Frankel, Published on 13/08/2015
» World oil prices, which have been highly volatile during the last decade, have fallen more than 50% over the past year. The economic effects have been negative overall for oil-exporting countries, and positive for oil-importing countries. But what about effects that are not directly economic?