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Acting Man
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Fiat Money Cannibalization in America
An Odd Combination of Serenity and Panic The United States, with untroubled ease, continued its approach toward catastrophe this week. The Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate 25 basis points, thus furthering its program of mass money debasement. Yet, on the surface, all still remained in the superlative. S&P 500 Index, weekly: serenely perched near all time highs, in permanently high plateau nirvana. [PT] Stocks smiled down on...
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The Weird Obsessions of Central Bankers, Part 3
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The Weird Obsessions of Central Bankers, Part 2
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The Weird Obsessions of Central Bankers, Part 1
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Why Are People Now Selling Their Silver? Precious Metals Supply and Demand
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Don’t Be Another Wall Street Chump
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A Wild Week – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
Antonio Fatas
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Stock market getting cheaper (relative to bonds)
Several indicators are signaling an increase in the probability of a recession. Most of these indicators are variables that have shown to be statistically leading the recession but they cannot always be seen as the cause of one (for example, an inverted yield curve)In the search of a cause for a recession we typically look for imbalances. One that has mattered in the past is asset price bubbles. Standard valuation metrics of the stock market...
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Redefining money in a digital age
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Libra: not a currency board and (maybe) not a stable currency
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This time might not be different
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The 2020 (US) Recession
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How low is low for Chinese GDP growth?
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Global Rebalancing
Bruegel Think Thank
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Jobs and robots: Europe’s Debate Over the Destiny of the Welfare State
This blog is part of a series following the 2019 Bruegel annual meetings, which brought together nearly 1,000 participants for two days of policy debate and discussion.Artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning, and the internet of things are bringing huge transformative changes in society. The questions that have been increasingly on the table are what these changes imply for the future of work, and what they imply for the future of...
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The EU is in the US trade war crosshairs. It should further raise its game
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In an era of digitalisation, the Single Market needs a software update
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Deep Focus: What is a hybrid attack?
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Trump’s Backfiring Trade Policy
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EU trade policy amid the China-US clash: caught in the crossfire?
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EU support for SME IPOs should be part of a broader package that unlocks equity finance
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?
Chris Dillow: Stumbling and Mumbling
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The trouble with capitalism
Are the faults of capitalism curable, or are they instead symptoms of a chronic disease? This is the question posed by Martin Wolf: What we increasingly seem to have…is an unstable rentier capitalism, weakened competition, feeble productivity growth, high inequality and, not coincidentally, an increasingly degraded democracy. There is much to admire in this piece. But I fear it understates the problem with capitalism. The Bank of England...
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A start, or an end?
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Doubting disaster capitalism
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On Tory paradoxes
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Capitalists for Corbyn
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What theft?
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The theatre of politics
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?
David Smith’s EconomicsUK
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Let’s get fiscal, but avoid the mistakes of the past
Let's get fiscal, but avoid the mistakes of the past 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. This has been a busy month for central banks. A few days ago America’s Federal Reserve cut official interest rates by a quarter of a point, citing weaker business investment and exports. A few days before that, the European...
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Some good news – but we’re not out of the woods yet
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The record pay squeeze is over – but maybe not for long
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Scrapping HS2 would derail Javid’s infrastructure plan
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The top 1% pay a lot of tax – will they stay or go?
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This sterling slide has logic on its side
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Tricky times call for a lucky chancellor
Economistmeg
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Consumers cannot carry the US economy for ever
They don’t call us dismal scientists for nothing. Nearly 75 per cent of economists surveyed in July by the National Association for Business Economics see a US recession by the end of 2021. But ask for data supporting that forecast and you get no real consensus. There are plenty of theories about trade wars. US growth has slowed. But the usual bubbles and imbalances that trigger recession aren’t yet evident. With consumption accounting for...
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Trade war showing up in the trade deficit
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Central banks can no longer afford to act in isolation
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What’s driving stock market volatility?
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Central banks to fiscal authorities: don’t look to us to sort out this mess
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This is a currency war the US can’t possibly win
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State of the Eurozone (and the US)
Eurostat News Releases
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Annual inflation stable at 1.0% in the euro area
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Production in construction down by 0.7% in euro area
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Euro area job vacancy rate at 2.3%
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Annual growth in labour costs at 2.7% in euro area
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Euro area international trade in goods surplus €24.8 bn
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Industrial production down by 0.4% in euro area
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Regional diversity in the EU – how does your region compare?
IFO Hans-Werner Sinn & Clemens Fuest
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ifo Institute: Economic Experts Fear Tariff War Will Shrink World Trade
International economic experts fear that the tariff war between the US, China, and Europe will lead to a decline in world trade. This is the result of the World Economic Survey conducted by the ifo Institute among 1,130 economists worldwide. When asked to name the most significant consequence of the higher tariffs, the predominant answer was “less trade.” This answer scored 1.7 on a scale of 1 to 3, where 1...
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ifo Economists’ Panel: Economists Do Not Expect East German States to Catch up Any Further
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CESifo Newsletter 2019/04
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Légère amélioration de l’indice ifo du climat économique mondial
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ifo World Economic Climate Recovers Slightly
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Institut ifo : Les économistes redoutent les effets négatifs d’une guerre douanière sur le commerce mondial
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ifo President Fuest Calls for a “Europe of Opportunity” Instead of “Europe As a Fortress”
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
London School of Economics
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Can the liberals become the new pivotal political family of EU politics?
Ursula von der Leyen recently unveiled her proposed candidates for the next European Commission. Angelos Chryssogelos explains that one of the less observed features of the list was the empowerment of liberal politicians, continuing a trend toward a stronger liberal presence in EU decision-making. However, for the liberals to take on a central role in EU politics, they will need to upgrade their organisation and coordination capacities, which...
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The David Cameron memoirs: No apology, no atonement, no courage
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Is the EU headed for a ‘Southern Irish’ backstop in the case of a hard Brexit?
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Why trust in EU civil protection depends on trust in national institutions
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The ‘Brahmin left’ vs the ‘Merchant right’: A comment on Thomas Piketty’s new book
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How ‘family-friendly’ are European countries?
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Book Review: Eric Drummond and his Legacies: The League of Nations and the Beginnings of Global Governance by David Macfadyen et al
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
On French Politics
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Redrawing the Refugee
Share the post "Redrawing the Refugee" The past decade has seen no shortage of images depicting the plight of the refugee. Perhaps the most famous of these is the upsettingly iconic photograph from 2015 of a drowned Syrian boy face-down in the surf. It’s no surprise that this photo was so widely distributed. It is singularly harrowing and blunt—a harsh reminder of desperate voyages and the culpability of those who refuse...
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Concentration Camps in the Borderlands
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Revue de Presse: September 15
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Sur les mœurs intellectuelles de Tocqueville
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Revue de Presse: September 8
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Le soin, nouveau paradigme socio-démocratique
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“Grenelle” galvaudé
Political Thoughts – the magazine
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Climate Change and Children
Sometimes you look at the news and wonder what planet you have been transported to.Our climate change protests are being led by Greta Thunberg, a sweet child but scarcely a professor of meteorology or even a well read science graduate. Why? It is not because she is brilliant or clever, it is because she sells media clicks, views and papers. It is also because she doesn't know what she is talking about. This ignorance allows "Climate...
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Is Boris a Fascist?
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People, Parliament, Government and Law
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Impartial Journalism in a Polarised World.
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Be Careful what you Wish For
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British Politics in 2019
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Remain are the Racists.
Professor Werner
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professorwerner 1970-01-01 00:00:00
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EU Basics – Your Guide to the UK Referendum on EU Membership
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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
Protesilaos Stavrou
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The shadow play of “populism”
2019-08-29 I listened to the Project Syndicate podcast Understanding Economic Populism (published on 2019-08-27). The title is misleading because it does not offer any real insight into the specifics of the topic at hand. The discussion revolves around the tenuous binary of liberalism vs populism, where the former ostensibly represents prudent policy-making with an eye for its longer-term implications, while the latter stands for...
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No optimism for the European Union
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Against the secularised theology of statecraft
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After Capitalism
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The extreme right is the new right
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Note on supporting free culture
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On Gigantism
Rybinski
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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
The Economist Europe
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The threat to the southern European olive
“THIS ONE has seen Napoleon,” says Massimo Arsieni. “It has seen the world wars. It has seen everything. And soon it will be dead.” He throws his arms around the fat, gnarled trunk of the olive tree. He means to emphasise its age, but could be clasping a dying relative. Mr Arsieni’s family has owned these groves outside the village of Cellino San Marco since 1800. Though harvest season is drawing near in Puglia, in the heel of the Italian...
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Germany’s pricey “coal exit”
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Will a November election break or prolong Spain’s political deadlock?
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Once part of the Warsaw Pact, Albania will soon host a NATO air base
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Why Russia is ambivalent about global warming
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Another French president tries pension reform
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Local elections embarrass the Kremlin
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%
VoxEU
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s expand private sales
A recent development for Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses has been their significant push into private sales. In 2018, private sales at Sotheby’s increased by 37% to $1 billion, or over 15% of all sales at the auction house, and at Christie’s, private sales increased by 7% to $653.3 million (Schultz 2019). This increase at Sotheby’s is due to a concerted effort to expand revenue streams beyond those of traditional open-outcry...
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Explaining business cycle synchronisation using profits and the extensive margin
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Working conditions on digital labour platforms
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Global lessons from Euroscepticism
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New evidence on the consequences of gentrification for children
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Hiring challenges for Japanese companies
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Peer effects in product adoption
