©2015 Bloomberg News NP31NB6JTSED (Bloomberg Business) — Morgan Stanley called them the Fragile Five. Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey were the quintet of countries that suffered through a market rout two years ago after the Federal Reserve initially signaled it would reduce monetary stimulus — the so-called taper
published Jun 7th 2016, 12:55 pm, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg View) — Greece, that hotbed of worst economic practices, has provided a perfect illustration of one of the biggest problems facing governments: In a world that’s increasingly unified by technology, the fiscal systems are still designed for 20th-century business models.