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Chidem Kurdas

Chidem Kurdas is a financial journalist, analyst and writer.

Throughout her career she has held numerous positions, including: Research Analyst at Thomson Reuters, New York Bureau Chief at HedgeWorld, News Editor at Infovest21, Senior Associate Editor at Medical Economics Publications at The Thomson Corporation. She is currently Editor at Opalesque Futures Intelligence.

She holds a PhD in Economics from New School University.

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Chidem Kurdas's Latest Articles | 49

Obama’s State of Regulation

Jan 27, 2012| 

Barack Obama sounded a number of themes in his 2012 State of the Union Address this week, all underpinned by the proposition that socioeconomic ills can be solved... Read »

Why Public Policy Is Inconsistent

Jan 20, 2012| 

Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, says regulatory policy is working against economic recovery and as such is contradictory. His complaint is about... Read »

Capitalism Loses Against Chimera

Jan 11, 2012| 

Gripes about capitalism go back 150 years and more. In the Communist Manifesto of 1848 Marx and Engels thundered that the specter of revolution haunted Europe,... Read »

Future of Forecasts

Dec 28, 2011| 

‘Tis the season for predictions. Pundits offer conjectures on every conceivable subject, though accumulating evidence in recent years has established, as much... Read »

Menace to Savings and Small Businesses

Dec 21, 2011| 

As the old adage goes, be careful what you ask for, you might just get it. After the 2008 crisis it became fashionable to complain that too much trading is going... Read »

Emerging Hope in Greece

Dec 13, 2011| 

The Greek economy continues to shrink. With the wider European debt crisis and slump hampering Greek recovery, the recession may persist through 2013.   Amid the... Read »

Fannie, Dodd-Frank and Barney Frank

Dec 2, 2011| 

Barney Frank  won’t run for Congress after his present term expires.  This May there were news stories about his  ex-lover getting a high-paying job at mortgage... Read »

Energy Policy vs. Market

Nov 15, 2011| 

No matter how thoroughly public policy fails, there is no end to efforts in the same area.  Energy is a case in point. Reviewing the history of US energy policy... Read »

Politics of Healthcare Rationing

Oct 12, 2011| 

The Obama administration’s remake of the US healthcare system stands on three legs. It makes the purchase of insurance compulsory. It doles out new entitlements... Read »

Revolution on Wall Street?

Oct 3, 2011| 1

Protestors have “occupied” a square near Wall Street for weeks. Hundreds of them were arrested, some 700 while blocking the Brooklyn Bridge. The movement may... Read »

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