Alexei Bayer

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Alexei Bayer

Alexei Bayer is head of KAFAN FX Information Services. His monthly “Global Economy” column in Research has received an excellence award from the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants for the past six years, 2004-2009. He previously worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit and Standard & Poor's.

• Fading Superpowers

  By Alexei Bayer  |  September 29, 2011

  After the Cold War’s end, the paths of the two former enemies should have diverged dramatically. No longer locked in a nuclear rivalry known as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD for short, each should have been going its own way: the United States to enjoy the fruits of victory and...

• Deferred Liability

  By Alexei Bayer  |  September 1, 2011

  American national debt held steady, in the $2-3 trillion range, for three decades until the early 1980s. It began to rise rapidly at that point, dipping briefly when it reached the $7 trillion mark in the late 1990s and then taking off in earnest after 2000.

• Democracy’s Price

  By Alexei Bayer  |  July 26, 2011

• Inflated Science

  By Alexei Bayer  |  July 1, 2011

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  Facebook Frenzy

  By Alexei Bayer  |  June 1, 2011

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  A Constrained World

  By Alexei Bayer  |  May 1, 2011

• The Demise of the Great American Middle Class

  By Alexei Bayer  |  April 1, 2011

• A Waste of a Generation

  By Alexei Bayer  |  March 1, 2011

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  Less Pain, Less Gain

  By Alexei Bayer  |  February 1, 2011

• Abandoning America

  By Alexei Bayer  |  January 1, 2011