All articles from Stefan Karlsson
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Stefan Karlsson Japan's new inflationary strategy: wrong target
The cause of Japan's deflation isn't monetary, it's demographic. Inflationary policy won't work in the long term.
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Stefan Karlsson Is Ireland's economy on the rebound?
Ireland has in the recent year come to diverge in a positive way from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece, Karlsson writes.
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Stefan Karlsson Would a one-dollar coin save Americans money?
Karlsson explores the economics of switching from a one-dollar note to a one-dollar coin. From a Swedish perspective, Karlsson writes, changing to a coin would seem natural.
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Stefan Karlsson Where are Britain's spending cuts?
British budget statistics show no trace of big spending cuts and austerity measures in Britain, Karlsson writes.
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Stefan Karlsson Six types of European economic trends
Recent EU data shows great divergences in Europe between different countries in economic growth, Karlsson writes.
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Stefan Karlsson California now a liberal Democratic one-party state
The most recent election illustrates a greater shift to the left in California, Karlsson writes.
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Stefan Karlsson Latvia's economy comes roaring back
Latvia's strong economic recovery continues, with GDP increasing 1.7 percent in the third quarter. And Latvia did it by reducing government and maintaining a fixed exchange rate.
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Stefan Karlsson Why Mitt Romney is the lesser of two evils
While Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is unsatisfactory in many ways he is a somewhat lesser evil compared to President Barack Obama, Karlsson writes.
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Stefan Karlsson Germany: taking a deficit for the team
Germany's overall trade surplus continued to increase this year. But in trading with other eurozone countries, its €300 million surplus turned into a €1.1 billion deficit in August.This means that Germany is in fact helping to reduce the deficits of crisis-struck countries like Spain and Italy.
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Stefan Karlsson Why is British unemployment so low?
The British economy is experiencing its worst spell since the 1930s, but unemployment has been relatively moderate. The cause? Low productivity.
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Stefan Karlsson 'Two Inflationary Days': A clarification
Karlsson responds to readers' comments on his translation of monthly changes to annualized rates in his previous post on inflation.
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Stefan Karlsson Two inflationary days
Producer prices rose 1.7 percent in August, but the Fed went ahead with QE3. Is the US economy about to experience some serious inflation?
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Stefan Karlsson Are free markets the secret to Sweden's success?
Sweden stopped outperforming other countries after a dramatic leftist shift in economic policies, Karlsson writes.
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Stefan Karlsson US unemployment is worse than the headlines say
The United States publishes two employment numbers: one based on a survey of employers ("the payroll survey") and one based on a survey of households. The household survey gets more ink, but its proven itself unreliable.
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Stefan Karlsson Are attacks on the Romney/Ryan budget fair?
Leftists have been attacking the Romney/Ryan budget plan from the moment Paul Ryan was chosen as Mitt Romney's running mate. But some of their critiques could easily apply to Democrats.
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Stefan Karlsson Deficits fall in southern Europe. Progress?
Any deficit is a bad deficit, but Italy, Portugal, and Greece are taking bug strides in reducing their national debts.
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Stefan Karlsson The fairy tale of British spending cuts
Critics blame David Cameron's spending cuts for causing another recession. What spending cuts?
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Stefan Karlsson The 'savings glut' question, resurrected
There had been some discussion about whether bubbles in the US and European markets were caused by a global savings glut in Asia. Stefan Karlsson says no, citing the economic woes in Japan as compared to market health in Australia.
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Stefan Karlsson Japan's employment: fewer people, fewer jobs
Japan's employment rate isn't falling for economic reasons. Population shifts are causing it.
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Stefan Karlsson British economic growth is weaker than it looks
At first glance, Britain's GDP numbers look impressive. Throw population growth into the mix, and not so much.
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