Yannis Goutzamanis discusses the effects that private equity has on the wider economy.
If I’ve learnt anything during my two-week visit to the United States it’s that this a country of unparalleled contrasts.
There’s the powerful marriage of individuality and a sense of community, unlike anywhere else on earth.
As Chris travels the United States, he gives his perspective on the latest happenings on the Presidential Campaign and asks, does the data matter all that much?
I have been in the United States for the last week, travelling across the country from Los Angeles to where I am now, in the nation’s capital (with stays in San Francisco and Chicago along the way), and the most lasting impression I have is that this Presidential Election campaign hasn’t taken off.
A summary of the key issues which will influence the minds of voters in the upcoming presidential elections in America.
In my first article as a writer for ESSA, I wrote about how the unemployment rate was going to have a significant impact on President Obama’s re-election chances.
In the 2 months since that article was written there have been some significant developments in the US economy and in the political sphere as we approach the Presidential Election.
Last year in the United States, amidst an indifferent recovery, a politically motivated near-default on its vast debt, and the beginnings of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Warren Buffett wrote an op-ed in The New York Times last August highlighting how he paid a lower effective tax rate than his secretary.
