Default bank loans: A potential time bomb

We cannot find a better set of words to describe the present state of Bangladesh economy than by borrowing, albeit with a slight variation, a line or two from Charles Dickens' classic, A Tale of Two Cities -- it is the best of times, it is the worst of times,...

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The case for a bold economics

At the end of 1933, John Maynard Keynes sent a remarkable public letter to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR had taken office earlier that year, in the midst of an economic slump that had pushed a quarter of the labour force into unemployment. He had launched his ambitious New...

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