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Acting Man: Pater Tenebrarum
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What Were They Thinking?
Learning From Other People’s Mistakes is Cheaper One benefit of hindsight is that it imparts a cheap superiority over the past blunders of others. We certainly make more mistakes than we’d care to admit. Why not look down our nose and acquire some lessons learned from the mistakes of others? Bitcoin, weekly. The late 2017 peak is completely obvious in hindsight… [PT] A simple record of the collective delusions from the past can be quickly...
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The Liquidity Drought Gets Worse
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Long Term Stock Market Sentiment Remains as Lopsided as Ever
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The Gold-Silver Ratio Continues to Rise – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
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Unsolicited Advice to Fed Chair Powell
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A Trip Down Memory Lane – 1928-1929 vs. 2018-2019
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The Effect of Earnings Season on Seasonal Price Patterns
Bruegel Think Thank
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Taking stock of the Single Resolution Board: Banking union scrutiny
The Single Resolution Board (SRB) has had a somewhat difficult start but has been able to learn and adapt, and has gained stature following its first bank resolution decisions in 2017-18. It must continue to build up its capabilities, even as the European Union’s banking union and its policy regime for unviable banks continue to develop. By: Nicolas Véron Date: April 18, 2019 Topic: European Macroeconomics & Governance...
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The next step of the Belt and Road Initiative: Multilateralisation with Chinese characteristics
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Getting better all the time: The benefits of learning for decarbonisation
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Why China’s current account balance approaches zero
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Director’s cut: EU-China partnership after the 21st EU-China summit
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Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth and convergence in the European Union
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Europe in the midst of China-US strategic competition: What are the European Union’s options?
Chris Dillow: Stumbling and Mumbling
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When failure succeeds
In politics, failure sometimes works better than success. This is the message of this piece by Janan Ganesh, wherein he argues that it is in Trump’s interest to fail on his promise to control immigration, because if he does so it will remain a big issue which will attract voters to him. Janan says: It is perverse, I know, that a president could make so little progress on his number-one priority during four years in office, only to be...
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Broad-spectrum policies
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Marxism for Tories
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Why rent matters
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The rise of moral simplicity
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Decadent Tories
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The consistency illusion
David Smith’s EconomicsUK
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The trade deficit soars, in a terrible time to be an exporter
The trade deficit soars, in a terrible time to be an exporter 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. Now that the Brexit process is guaranteed to stretch on for many more months, if not years, there is a limit, which may be close to being reached, on how much new there is to say. I shall bear that very much in mind...
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Britain’s minimum wage, 20 years old, is an unlikely success story
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A customs union beckons – and it won’t stop trade deals
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Britain shouldn’t be too glad to be grey
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Views from the brink: how slow growth and uncertainty leave firms on the edge
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Quantitative easing worked, just don’t make a habit of it
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This sterling rally was built on shaky foundations
Eurostat News Releases
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Annual inflation down to 1.4% in the euro area
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Euro area international trade in goods surplus €17.9 bn
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Production in construction up by 3.0% in euro area
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Industrial production down by 0.2% in euro area
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House prices up by 4.2% in both the euro area and the EU
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Hourly labour costs ranged from €5.4 to €43.5 across the EU Member States in 2018
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EU28 current account surplus €38.6 bn
IFO Institute
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ifo express : les automobiles électriques ne sont pas la panacée pour protéger le climat
Les automobiles électriques ne devraient guère contribuer dans les années à venir à la réduction des émissions de CO2 en Allemagne, cette technologie ne conduisant en soi pas à leur diminution dans le trafic routier. Les moteurs thermiques au gaz naturel constituent une technologie de transition idéale avant l’introduction, à plus long terme, d’automobiles propulsées à l’hydrogène ou au « méthane vert »....
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Kohlemotoren, Windmotoren und Dieselmotoren: Was zeigt die CO2-Bilanz?
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ifo Schnelldienst: Electric Vehicles are not a Panacea for Climate Change
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ifo Dresden Newsletter 16 April 2019
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ifo Researchers Criticize the Equal Living Conditions Commission Approach
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Des chercheurs de l’ifo critiquent le choix de confier l’analyse de l’équivalence des conditions de vie à une commission
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Selon des chercheurs du réseau EconPol, l’entrée d’immigrants peu qualifiés favoriserait le vote en faveur des partis d’extrême-droite
On French Politics
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On the Notre-Dame Disaster
Share the post "On the Notre-Dame Disaster" The Nation asked me to write a few words on the fire at Notre-Dame. Here is my essay. Thanks to David Bell for the accompanying photo, which perfectly captures my memory. Share the post "On the Notre-Dame Disaster"
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The European Union Elections
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Du Soleil à l’écran
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Obama, sans famille politique
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Two Events in Chicago!
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Computer programmers and Quentin Compson: American Stoics?
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The Political Limits of Axel Honneth’s Idea of Socialism
Political Thoughts – The Magazine
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What has Arctic Ice got to do with the European Union?
Arctic sea ice has a record low extent today for April: When the Arctic loses all of its ice we will be in big trouble. The polar weather systems will shift towards Greenland, the Jet Stream will be heavily displaced and food production will become chaotic. There could even be drastic tipping points being crossed such as the thawing of the permafrost and release of methane from shallow Arctic waters. Tipping points that could kill...
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The Fight for Independence Must Start Again
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EU Nationalism
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The New Politics
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Today in Brexitland – what now?
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A Summary of Opinion Polls on Brexit
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Independence day cancelled or the death of the UK?
Protesilaos Stavrou
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Note on supporting free culture
Do not allow copyright to be a tool for tyranny 2019-04-01 I get asked to comment on the EU’s copyright reform, specifically the infamous “Article 13”. Because I think the legal technicalities might obscure the broader issue at play, I will address not them—we already know they are bad. Instead, I share my thoughts on copyright itself and why we should support...
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On Gigantism
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Changing ways: the real bread paradigm
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Changing ways: the real bread paradigm
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Sovereignty and debt in the modern era
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Sovereignty and debt in the modern era
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Leviathan, Sovereignty, Anarchy, and Peace
Antonio Fatas
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The 2020 (US) Recession
Summary: This post is based on a research note I wrote asking whether low unemployment is sustainable. The answer is a clear no for the US. Low level of unemployment are good predictors of the tail risk event of a recession, a sharp increase in unemployment rates. These dynamics are related to the build up of financial and macroeconomic imbalances. If this pattern is to repeated, and given the current level of unemployment rate, a US recession...
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How low is low for Chinese GDP growth?
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Global Rebalancing
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Digital money and payments
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Is the Great Moderation back?
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Lost decades: Italy 3 – Japan 0.
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It’s a (low inflation) trap!
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?
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
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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The 2020 (US) Recession
Summary: This post is based on a research note I wrote asking whether low unemployment is sustainable. The answer is a clear no for the US. Low level of unemployment are good predictors of the tail risk event of a recession, a sharp increase in unemployment rates. These dynamics are related to the build up of financial and macroeconomic imbalances. If this pattern is to repeated, and given the current level of unemployment rate, a US recession...
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How low is low for Chinese GDP growth?
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Global Rebalancing
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Digital money and payments
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Is the Great Moderation back?
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Lost decades: Italy 3 – Japan 0.
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It’s a (low inflation) trap!
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