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The need for new vehicles for growth is great, according to Kenneth Courtis, the Canadian-born vice-chairman for Asia of the Goldman Sachs International investment firm. "We are not in a U.S. slowdown. We're in an OECD slowdown," he said, referring to the 30-member association of advanced...
Despite all this, Courtis believes the Dow may be on its way up. "The market is already looking across the valley," he said. "I think we may be in the beginning phases of what I call a stealth bull market." Much, of course, turns on interest rates, and the TIME...
Courtis disagreed with Lipp's general optimism, arguing that leading economic indicators--such as order-book backlogs and consumer sentiment--don't bode well for Europe. "Everything we look at that tells us where the economy is going to be in six months in the U.S. started to roll over...
On the other hand, Asia expert Courtis saw little hope for Japan. The Tokyo government still seemed committed to spending its way into recovery, even though all the evidence decreed that pump priming wasn't a viable solution. "In the past 30 months, they spent $1.4 trillion, and they got...
Which country presents the biggest threat to stability? Russia, in the view of Stanford University's Joseph Stiglitz, who was Bill Clinton's chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. He summed up the danger: "Small economy. Big country. With nuclear weapons." Over roughly a decade, he said, the number...