Know When Big Events Occur: Here Is a List
of a Few Important Ones
■ Significant G7 finance ministers meetings
■ Presidential elections
■ Important summits
■ Major Central Bank meetings
■ Potential changes to currency regimes
■ Possible debt defaults by large countries
■ Possible wars as a result of rising geopolitical tensions
■ Federal Reserve chairman’s semiannual testimony on economy
The best way to highlight the significance of these events is look at a few notable
macroeconomic examples from the past two decades.
2014 Ukraine–Russia Crisis
European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2009–2013)
Global Financial Crisis (2007–2009), Subprime
Political Uncertainty: 2004 U.S. Presidential Election
G7Meeting Dubai September 2003
U.S. War Against Iraq