The Federal Reserve has recently announced its intention to purchase an additional $600 billion of securities as part of a second round of quantitative easing.

Nicht nur die Bankenkrise, auch der Alterungsprozess setzt die Regierungen unter Druck. In Analogie zu Banken-Stresstests drängen sich mit Blick auf die zukünftig schwerer werdenden sozialpolitischen Lasten demografische Stresstests auf.

Twenty years from now, due to demographic pressures, Western economies will have stagnating populations, shrinking workforces, and ballooning social-spending commitments.

The financial turmoil convulsing the Eurozone and threatening global economic recovery are a result of rising public sector debt, and these problems will likely be magnified in the coming future, especially when factoring in demographic trends.

Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh's speech sketches a plan for fixing the financial system based on common sense and experience.

According to the new calculations of the Social Security Trustees’ 2012 Report, Social Security’s future costs are a lot bigger than its future income.

The stress tests boosted confidence in U.S. banks, suggesting that earlier disclosure of bank balance sheet conditions would have stabilized markets sooner.

President George W. Bush would do well to welcome the 9 per cent effective appreciation of the Chinese currency over the past year.