European
Vox EU
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Foreign expansion, competition, and bank risk
Ten years after one of the deepest financial crises in history, economists are still searching for the deep-rooted causes that led to the unfolding of those events. One ground of consensus is that the crisis resulted from excessive build-up of risk and leverage in the banking sector. Banks had been exposing themselves to runnable short-term liabilities too heavily and had invested in risky portfolios in search of yield (for an overview of the...
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Strikes and local politics
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Re-emerging currency mismatches
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Firm size, productivity, and pay in a service economy
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Heterogeneous effects of trade agreements across product types
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The increasing faith in macroprudential policies
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Testing with accountability improves student achievement
Acting Man: Pater Tenebrarum
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US Equities – Approaching an Inflection Point
A Lengthy Non-Confirmation As we have frequently pointed out in recent months, since beginning to rise from the lows of the sharp but brief downturn after the late January blow-off high, the US stock market is bereft of uniformity. Instead, an uncommonly lengthy non-confirmation between the the strongest indexes and the broad market has been established. The chart below illustrates the situation – it compares the performance of the DJIA (still...
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Dubious Prophecies & Perverse Incentives – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
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Honest Work for Dishonest Pay
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Corporate Credit – A Chasm Between Risk Perceptions and Actual Risk
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Gold-Silver Ratio Hits 10-Year High – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
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Thirteen Reckonings Hanging in the Balance
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Jayant Bhandari – The US Dollar vs. Other Currencies and Gold
Bruegel Think Thank
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China real estate developers: a grey rhino in the jungle of financial risks
The author assesses the Chinese real estate industry’s liquidity concerns and its leverage, which is estimated to be four times higher than its global peers. Apart from the much-discussed trade war, the difficult financial situation of real estate developers is probably the most obvious grey rhino of the Chinese economy. While the risks have certainly been latent for quite some time, investors seem to have overlooked them. The recent...
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Reforming the EU fiscal framework
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Director’s Cut: Europe’s migration policy challenge
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The economic case for an expenditure rule in Europe
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The EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework and some implications for CESEE countries
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Electrification in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of international institutions
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Should central European EU members join the euro zone?
London School of Eco. Blog
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Why Romania’s protests have failed to bring about real change
Romania has experienced large anti-government protests on multiple occasions in the last few years, most recently in August this year. Yet as Daniel Brett explains, the achievements of these protests have been modest and short-lived, with the country’s ruling Social Democratic Party still maintaining power. He highlights that while the protesters and opposition parties may be united in their opposition to corruption, they have radically...
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Why did the EPP vote against Orbán?
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Italy under the spotlight of another financial crisis
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Book Review: Understanding Central Europe edited by Marcin Moskalewicz and Wojciech Przybylski
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Why we must all now be with Rees-Mogg: The case against a sudden reversal of Brexit
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Germany is quietly rebalancing its economy – but this will not fix the Eurozone’s flaws
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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Trump’s Tariffs Will Curb China’s Growth and Put Europe in Stronger Position
The additional tariffs announced by President Donald Trump’s US government will curb economic growth in China by 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points, according to calculations by the ifo Institute. At the same time, US tariffs could improve Europe’s negotiating position. “If tariffs rise from 10 percent to 25 percent towards the end of the year, the growth curbing effect would rise to 0.3 -0.5 percentage points. That effect would be noticeable, but...
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German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs Experts Advise Bundestag to Ratify CETA
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L’Institut ifo souhaite calculer la taxe foncière en fonction des surfaces
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ifo Institute Supports Local Property Tax Based on Surface Area
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Selon les experts, les économies sont mieux armées pour une nouvelle crise financière
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Economies Are Better Equipped to Face Financial Crisis
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Majority of Germans Welcome #MeToo Debate over Sexual Harassment and Want Schools to Cover the Issue – Results of the ifo Education Survey 2018
Chris Dillow: Stumbling and Mumbling
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Radical Markets: a review
In recent years the case for free markets has become tainted by association with a defence of the rich – an association which free market think-tanks have done too little to disentangle. It was not always so, however. Adam Smith and David Ricardo (and Thomas Carlyle!) saw free markets as an attack on privilege. Posner and Weyl’s Radical Markets is an attempt to return to that older tradition of Philosophical Radicalism. They want to use...
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The BBC’s bias against understanding
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Talking ’bout my generation
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Doubts about wage-led growth
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Short-termism: what’s the problem?
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Prosperity and Justice: a review
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Against moral crusades
David Smith’s EconomicsUK
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Pay’s up – but don’t put out the bunting just yet
Pay's up - but don't put out the bunting just yet 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. According to my well-thumbed Collins French-English dictionary, déjà vu literally translates as ‘already seen’. Mostly, however, we think of it as the sensation of having lived through something before, which can be...
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Austerity had to be done – but did it lead to Brexit?
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The Amazon effect has kept a lid on prices – but not for much longer
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As the budget defciit falls, Hammond’s task is clear
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A no-deal Brexit – the silliest of silly season ideas
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A curiously downbeat rate rise. Is it going to hurt?
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Will they or won’t they? A big moment for the Bank
On French Politics
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The Long March Stops Short
Share the post "The Long March Stops Short" Two years is an eternity in politics. Two years ago, Macron’s En Marche! was not a party but a movement, full of youthful vigor and enthusiasm, in the image of its founder master. Lately, however, dispatches from the field paint a very different picture. Some marcheurs have simply fallen by the wayside and quit; others are disillusioned; still others complain of top-down control...
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Thoughts on the Fifth Republic’s Sixtieth
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Vendangeurs ou Socialistes
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La rentrée politique
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Focus: Liberalism and Identity Politics
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My Totally Correct Views on Everything
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Lilla, Liberalism, and American Politics
Eurostat News Releases
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How has the EU progressed towards the Sustainable Development Goals?
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Annual inflation down to 2.0% in the euro area
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Euro area job vacancy rate at 2.1%
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Euro area international trade in goods surplus €17.6 bn
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Annual growth in labour costs at 2.2% in euro area
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Take a look at how your region compares to others
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Industrial production down by 0.8% in euro area
Political Thoughts – The Magazine
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EU Second Referendums and Ignoring Referendums – The EU Democratic Deficit
The countries of the EU have often staged referendums about the terms of membership. About 20% of all of these referendums have gone against the EU. (see Wikipedia: EU Referendums). Second referendums are frequent in the EU if the decision on the first goes against EU policy. There have been nine major referendums on substantial membership issues that went against the EU. Three were ignored and four resulted in second referendums. Three of...
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The Northern Ireland Border Issue – The ERG Report
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The Avoidable Future
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Why Identity Politics?
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The Timetable for Brexit – Withdrawal from the EU
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The Great 21st Century Battle: Corporatism vs Freedom
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Solving The Northern Irish Border Problem After Brexit
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
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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
MNI Euro Insight
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MNI Euro Insight 1970-01-01 00:00:00
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MORNING DIGEST: July 18, 2016
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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
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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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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Trump è lì per difendere il capitalismo da se stesso
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Media, la repressione del dissenso punta a ridare monopolio alle grandi testate. Ma così favorisce le destre
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Inaudito! C’è un dibattito sull’euro anche a sinistra
Antonio Fatas
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Is the Great Moderation back?
The "Great Moderation" was a term used to describe the reduction in business cycle volatility observed in several advanced economies. It started in the mid-1980s and it coincided with the period of time where inflation had successfully brought down to a low level (and remained low and stable since then).There was a debate about the causes of the Great Moderation. Some put central banks at the center of the phenomenon while others...
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Lost decades: Italy 3 – Japan 0.
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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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A third scenario for stock markets
Ecconomistmeg
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Euro Area Debt Crisis by Megan Greene 1970-01-01 00:00:00
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Argentina’s Options: What happens after default?
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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
