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Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser expects US unemployment rate to fall to 6.2% by end-2014, below the Fed's target threshold.
The Oman Investment Fund is investing in ports around the Indian Ocean to help turn the country into a regional logistics gateway.
Former Hong Kong official Julia Leung will become OMFIF Senior Adviser, leading work with Asian central banks and finance ministries.
Charles Plosser, a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, said in an OMFIF lecture in London on 6 March that he favoured providing more information on how US monetary policy will evolve as economic conditions change.
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H.E. Dr. Salim bin Nasser Al-Ismaily, Chairman of the Omani Public Authority for Investment Promotion and Export Development, speaking at an OMFIF lecture in London on 27 February, said Oman is well placed to become a trade and logistics hub.
Julia Leung, who becomes an OMFIF Senior Adviser from 1 March, will focus on co-operation with Asian central banks and other official institutions, including writing a report on the long-term effects of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.
Unlike Russia and Ukraine, Scotland has a civilised way of dealing with a potential breakup. The trouble is, Scotland’s plan to keep the British pound is a very bad idea, writes David Marsh.
France is setting up a publicly-owned mining company to emulate the likes of China and secure mineral wealth around the world. The initiative contrasts with President Hollande’s recent tilt towards supply-side solutions to France’s economic problems, writes David Marsh.
Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, once a eurosceptic, believes the loss of the single currency would be a disaster for Germany, David Marsh writes.
Desmond Lachman fears that Janet Yellen runs the risk of repeating Ben Bernanke’s mistake of underestimating the linkages between the US and global economies.
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