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Dr. Hans Belcsák is President of S. J. Rundt & Associates and is the publisher of “Rundt’s World Business Intelligence Briefs,” “Rundt’s Financial Executive Country Risk Alert,” and ”FX-PRO Foreign Currency Forecasts.” He holds a Doctorate in Jurisprudence and Political Economics, is a regular contributor of articles to international trade & financial journals, and has made extensive contributions on foreign exchange strategies, and country risk assessment to several books on international finance.

Whither the US Economy?

Sep 2, 2010

The economic recovery in the United States should be gaining strong momentum by now, but instead most reports show it going backwards.

The Engine That Could…

Aug 17, 2010

After the government in Germany decided that the time had come to end the fiscal stimulus efforts with which it had sought to pull the economy out of recession and to get serious about mopping up...

Beyond the Stress Tests

Aug 6, 2010

To call the results of the bank stress tests that have been disclosed by European regulators “game changers,” as some commentators have done, is not only wildly exaggerating their significance,...

A New Trend to Watch Out For

Jul 22, 2010

Among the major factors that contributed to the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 was that the leading Central Banks in general, and the US Federal Reserve in particular, kept monetary policies...

A Sea-Change In Economic Policies

Jul 6, 2010

The concluding statement of the G-20 leaders who met in Toronto last weekend was cloaked in the usual ambiguity of diplomatic language, but even so it could not hide that there has been a sea-...

The Yuan’s Irrelevant Exchange Rate

Jun 15, 2010

While there is some concern in Beijing that the slow economic recovery in the United States and the ongoing sovereign debt problems in Europe, along with drastic fiscal spending cuts by many...

No Time For Complacency

May 15, 2010

The relief that the European financial markets felt on Monday last week, after they learned of the gargantuan bailout package that Eurozone members had put together to impress them with their...

A Greek Tragedy

May 1, 2010

A few months ago, when the financial problems facing Greece were already fully apparent, a serious and specific EU commitment to help would probably have sufficed to reassure the

All Eyes On Asia

Apr 15, 2010

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS, effectively the City State’s Central Bank), which uses the exchange rate of the Singapore dollar instead of

Dollar Directions

Apr 1, 2010

The US dollar has held up far better in the foreign exchange markets so far this year than almost anyone had anticipated, given the Federal Reserve Bank’s seeming determination to