European
Vox EU
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The impact of non-tariff barriers on EU goods trade after Brexit
There are two primary benefits, in trade terms, to membership of the EU. First, there are no tariffs or customs duties between member states. Second, there are efforts to minimise ‘non-tariff barriers’ (NTBs). In particular, there are EU-wide agreements on product standards and rules of origin. This means that firms who import goods from outside of the customs union can then trade those goods across borders within the union without being...
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Growing non-tariff and overall protection
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Practical macroeconomic policy evaluation
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The rise of the dollar and fall of the euro in global asset trade
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The Great Migration and immigrant assimilation
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Firm innovation and productivity
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Consumption baskets and the distributional consequences of monetary policy
Acting Man: Pater Tenebrarum
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Lift-Off Not (Yet) – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
Wrong-Way Event Last week we said something that turned out to be prescient: This is not an environment for a Lift Off Event. An unfortunate technical mishap interrupted the latest moon-flight of the gold rocket. Fear not true believers, a few positive tracks were left behind. [PT] The price of gold didn’t move much Mon-Thu last week, though the price of silver did seem to be blasting off. Then on Friday, it reversed hard. We will provide...
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Gold Divergences Emerge
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Chasing the Wind
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Retail Capitulation – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
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America Goes Full Imbecile
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Credit Spreads: Polly is Twitching Again – in Europe
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Industrial Commodities vs. Gold – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
Bruegel Think Thank
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Director’s Cut: Making Europe financially literate
This week's guest on the Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, Annamaria Lusardi, raises the urgent need to adopt policies that seek to improve people’s understanding of financial concepts and risks, in conversation with Bruegel deputy director Maria Demertzis. According to Annamaria Lusadi, academic director at the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center, financial literacy requires both a knowledge of financial concepts and...
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Understanding (the lack of) German public investment
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Demographics and Long Run Growth
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The G7 is dead, long live the G7
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Is the European Semester effective and useful?
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« Mieux vaudrait laisser les gouvernements libres de tenter les politiques de leur choix »
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Enhancing the ESM lending toolkit through a precautionary credit line
London School of Eco. Blog
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We need to talk (more) about deliberative democracy in the EU
Criticism of the EU’s ‘democratic deficit’ has become increasingly prominent since the financial crisis. Firat Cengiz writes that democracy in the EU would benefit from methods allowing citizens to participate more directly in policymaking. She argues for a form of deliberative democracy to be implemented at the European level and provides some practical suggestions for how this could be achieved. Credit: © European Union 2018 – European...
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Austria’s right-wing government at six months: What’s the record so far?
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Book Review: Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe edited by Benjamin Martill and Uta Staiger
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Boycotts are more likely to be effective in industries which are highly competitive
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A crisis made in Italy
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Bulgarians in London: A community of strength, but one hidden in the shadows
The Market Monetarist
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The blog has MOVED to mamoadvisory.com
Markets & Money Advisory’s website is now up and running. You find it here. If you normally receive mails from The Market Monetarist you in the future instead will receive mails from Markets & Money Advisory instead. As a general rule we will try to avoid spamming our followers, readers and clients so we will try to only send out the newsletter once a week – unless there is “breaking news” such as key monetary policy announcement or...
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New Markets & Money Advisory website
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MTB Cast #3: Inflation worries hitting the markets?
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Reflections on the Fed hike
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FOMC preview – please hike, but be careful going forward
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MTB cast #2: Icelandic currency controls, the Fed and European central bankers
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MTB cast #1: Czech inflation to rise above 3%
IFO Institute
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L’Institut ifo revoit nettement à la baisse ses prévisions économiques
L'Institut ifo a nettement revu à la baisse ses prévisions économiques pour l'Allemagne. Pour l'année en cours, les chercheurs n'anticipent plus que 1,8 % de croissance; au printemps 2018, ils prévoyaient encore 2,6 %. Ils annoncent également 1,8 % pour l'année prochaine, contre 2,1 % lors des prévisions précédentes. « Lors des premiers mois de l'année, l'économie a évolué bien moins favorablement que...
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ifo Institute Downwardly Revises Economic Forecast
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Felbermayr : l’UE ne doit pas devenir le fossoyeur de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce
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ifo President Fuest Welcomes End to ECB’s Bond Purchases
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Felbermayr: EU Should Not Turn into World Trade Organisation’s Gravedigger
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Une concentration élevée de migrants limite l’intégration de leurs enfants
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Ethnic Enclaves Hamper the Integration of Immigrant Children
Chris Dillow: Stumbling and Mumbling
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Measuring competition
How do you measure competition? I ask because on yesterday's PM programme Lynsey Hooper claimed (15 min in) that Amazon's broadcasting of some Premier League games next season means that "competition is now fierce." I'm not sure this is right. Amazon will broadcast all ten Boxing Day games, This means it is a monopoly provider of live coverage then: if you want to watch a live match on that day, you've no choice but to pay Amazon....
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Britain’s open borders policy
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Why the MPC needs experts
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Does economics matter?
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Corbyn: the heir to Blair
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Food: a class issue
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Rationalism, rationality & reasonableness
David Smith’s EconomicsUK
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Why jobs are booming when growth stays weak
Why jobs are booming when growth stays weak Posted by David Smith at 09:00 AMCategory: David Smith's other articles My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thesundaytimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Today, away from the parliamentary kerfuffle over Brexit, Donald Trump’s dangerous protectionist rhetoric, higher interest rates in America, the prospective end in December of quantitative easing in Europe and other momentous...
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The NHS: 70 years old and counting … the cash
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A nation that no longer values its shopkeepers
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Italy will work hard to avoid crashing out of the euro
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Long hours are part of the productivity problem
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Manufacturing’s new dawn is starting to look like a falso one
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A record spending squeeze puts us back in the black
On French Politics
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Focus: Sex and Secularism
Share the post "Focus: Sex and Secularism" When French and American scholars and journalists attempt to discuss the role of religion in their respective democracies, it is often apparent that in more senses than one, they are not speaking the same language. The legal regimes of separation of religion and state are profoundly similar between the two countries. Yet there is no subject that can reveal the divergent...
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Une critique constructive de la laïcité
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Sexual Freedom and its Opposites
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Secularism as a Liberal Ideal
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The Intelligence of the President
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Tocqueville 21 on Mai 68
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The Insuperable Immigration Crisis
Eurostat News Releases
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Production in construction up by 1.8% in euro area
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Wide variation of consumption per capita across EU Member States
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Euro area job vacancy rate at 2.1%
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Annual growth in labour costs at 2.0% in euro area
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Euro area international trade in goods surplus €16.7 bn
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Annual inflation up to 1.9% in the euro area
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Industrial production down by 0.9% in euro area
Political Thoughts – The Magazine
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Have “Western” Journalists Lost the Plot?
China currently holds 3.1 TRILLION US Dollars as a foreign exchange reserve. This is about 16% of US GDP. China has recently appointed Xi Jinping as president for life and is a National Socialist state that does not have a democratic constitution.When the US government took exception to the trade deficit with China and the Chinese stockpile of dollars it was met with a storm of protest by the broadcast media. The media have been running...
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The Greens lost the battle
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How Old is Humanity?
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Is Social Media Use Good for You?
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The truth about old people being rich
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The Disastrous Effect of EU Ownership of UK Industry
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Scotland, Regionalization and the EU
Protesilaos Stavrou
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Leviathan, Sovereignty, Anarchy, and Peace
The polity takes us from the state of nature to prosperity Special issues of Political Realism (POL422) 31 May 2018 Hello, my name is Protesilaos Stavrou. This seminar is the third entry in a series about Realism in international relations. The first item was about the myth of the Ring of Gyges and exceptionalism in world politics. The second was about the Melian Dialogue, Power, and...
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The Melian Dialogue, Power, and Justice
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The Ring of Gyges, Realism, Exceptionalism
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On the geopolitics of the nuclear deal with Iran
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Who can change Europe?
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EU integration and “German Europe”
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Thoughts on a New Left
Rybinski Forum
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Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku – kilka dobrych rad na koniec
Minęło 11 lat od początków tego bloga. To już ostatni wpis, w którym podzielę się kilkoma radami i doświadczeniem życiowym. Polecam je każdemu i gwarantuję, że jeżeli będzie je stosował regularnie w 2017 roku, to jego/jej jakość życia: emocjonalna, fizyczna i finansowa radykalnie się poprawi. 1. Nie oglądajcie telewizji w szczególności programów informacyjnych. To codzienna idiotyczna papka, w której przemieszane są wypadki, morderstwa i...
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Polska przekracza granice międzynarodowej śmieszności
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Czy testy czynią uczniów głupszymi
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Czy sprawdziły się moje prognozy na 2016 rok
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What Trump election means for global economy?
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Spór o kluczowe wartości wymaga przeprowadzenia referendum
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Drukarze przyszłości
MNI Euro Insight
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MORNING DIGEST: July 18, 2016
EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels Monday, with the situation in Turkey set to top the discussions, along with the ongoing terrorism threats in Europe following the Nice attack. They will be joined by John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, to talk about EU-US relations and how to move forward with global foreign policy issues. Boris Johnson, recently appointed UK foreign secretary following the British vote to leave the EU, will make his...
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MORNING DIGEST: July 15, 2016
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Analysis: Vestager Comments Suggest Some Investor Bail-in if Italy’s Banks are Recapitalised
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Analysis: Bank of England Easing Decision is Delayed, not Cancelled, While MPC Gathers Data
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MORNING DIGEST: July 14, 2016
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Euro Insight Poll: Brexit Crushes Hopes for Stronger Eurozone Recovery
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Analysis: NATO’s Troop Buildup Seeks to Contain Russian Expansion but Alliance is Split on Strategy
Profesor Werner
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EU Basics – Your Guide to the UK Referendum on EU Membership
By Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon) 20 June 2016 The British people should be clear about just what they will be voting on at the EU referendum this Thursday. What does it actually mean to stay in the EU? What does it mean to exit? Concerning the second question, the dominant issue in the debate has been the question whether there will be a significant negative economic impact on the UK from exiting the EU. Prime Minister David...
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Is Germany to blame for the European mess?
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„Negative“ Interest Rates and the War on Cash
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What should be done about Greece – and what is likely to happen
Craig Willy
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The Romanian Palimpsest
The foreigner in Romania is immediately struck by the country’s hybrid culture. This is obvious from the first words one learns to garble: piața (very close pronunciation to Italian’s piazza), mersi (from the French merci, though the “r” is a little more rolled), da (yes…), or even bacşiş (baksheesh). We then have a mysterious mélange of Western and Eastern Europe, the Romanian roots are decidedly mixed. Like in any country, the stages of...
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Krugman Vindicated?: Eurozone Debt Apparently Falling
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ECB’s Cœuré Calls on Politicians to Hurry Up and Build the Eurozone Superstate and Federal Budget
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Why is so much official EU art ugly?
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Draghi: EU is “most advanced experiment” in transnational government
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Eurostat: Women Outnumber Men 2-to-1 in Teaching Across Europe (But Still Under-Represented in Universities)
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Why is free Kosovo providing highest number of “asylum-seekers” to the EU?
Centre for European Reforms
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Time for a regime change in Frankfurt
In recent years, the European Central Bank’s (ECB) monetary policy has been half of what is necessary, two years late. To get eurozone inflation back to its ‘close to 2 per cent’ target, the ECB needs to be much bolder. The ECB’s meeting on March 10th is shaping up to be one of its most anticipated. Inflation remains far below target and market expectations of future inflation have hardened at very low levels, indicating that investors have...
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The refugee crisis: Fixing Schengen is not enough
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Deal done: Now for the hard work
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Would an ‘independent’ Britain want to join the single market?
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China’s European charm offensive: Silk Road or Silk Rope?
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Merkel after Paris
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Terrorism in Paris: Aux armes, citoyens?
Il fatto quotidiano Alberto Bagnai
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Alberto Bagnai – Il Fatto Quotidiano
Guardate questo breve scambio su Twitter: Paolo Cirino Pomicino sostiene che l’entrata nell’euro non fu di per sé un errore: l’errore fu entrarci al cambio sbagliato. Alla richiesta di precisare quale sarebbe stato quello giusto, precisa: “poco più della metà”. Insomma, il cambio corretto, secondo Cirino Pomicino, sarebbe stato di circa 1000 lire per euro (la conversazione, se interessa, è qui). Qualcuno penserà: “Chiacchiere del sabato...
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Orlando privatizza la giustizia online
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Orlando privatizza la giustizia online
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I disoccupati “veri” in Italia sono il 30%: più che in Grecia
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I disoccupati “veri” in Italia sono il 30%: più che in Grecia
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Non è il libero commercio che favorisce i lavoratori
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Non è il libero commercio che favorisce i lavoratori
Antonio Fatas
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Lost decades: Italy 3 – Japan 0.
The last decade has not been good for many advanced economies. The Global Financial Crisis, a second recession in the Euro area and central banks hitting the zero lower bound have led to disappointing GDP growth rates. But GDP growth rates can be a misleading indicator about the true performance of different economies. For example, as Matt O'Brien summarizes well, Japan has done much better than what most people believe.The confusion comes...
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It’s a (low inflation) trap!
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The shrinking (US) Risk Premium
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The narrative of high debt and powerful central banks
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Moving Blog Location
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Missing the anti-inflation central bankers.
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BIS redefines inflation (again)
Ecconomistmeg
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Argentina’s Options: What happens after default?
Argentina’s Options: What happens after default? Argentina is probably going to default tomorrow. An Argentinian debt default would clearly not be good for the country economically, but contagion would probably be limited and far less hard hitting than its previous 2001 default. If Argentina does default tomorrow, the biggest casualty would be the process of sovereign debt restructuring, which would become chaotic and haphazard. How...
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Will the ECB’s Actions Be Enough?
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A shift in German policy? Not so fast!
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The Eurozone’s Imperfect Banking Union
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How Germany Just Undercut the Euro
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Berlusconi Prepares a New Italian Drama
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Bulgarian Election Shows Need to Clean House