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Vox EU
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The untapped potential of humanitarian economics
The humanitarian industry is booming and, yet, it is in crisis. Government funding for international humanitarian assistance has multiplied sevenfold since 1990, reaching $27.3 billion in 2016. Humanitarian assistance was only 3% of total official development assistance (ODA) in 1990, but is now more than 12%. The proportion of private contributions has also risen, and now is a quarter of total humanitarian funding (Figures 1 and 2). Due to...
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Refugees have little effect on native worker wages
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Hospital competition and performance in France
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Capital accumulation, private property, and inequality in China, 1978-2015
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Growth and volatility before and after the Global Crisis
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Credit misallocation during the European financial crisis
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Slow productivity growth may not be the ‘new normal’ for the US
Acting Man: Pater Tenebrarum
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India: The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum
Goods and Services Tax, and Gold (Part XV) Below is a scene from anti-GST protests by traders in the Indian city of Surat. On 1st July 2017, India changed the way it imposes indirect taxes. As a result, there has been massive chaos around the country. Many businesses are closed for they don’t know what taxes apply to them, or how to do the paperwork. Factories are shut, and businesses are protesting. A massive anti-GST protest in Surat ...
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Congress’s Radical Plan to End Illegal Money
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The Student Loan Bubble and Economic Collapse
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The Dangerous Season Begins Now
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Which Is Worse? America or France?
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Stockholm Syndrome – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
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Adventures in Quantitative Tightening
Bruegel Think Thank
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ASEAN Against the World: Strength in the Numbers
Corporate debt in emerging markets has long been perceived as a relevant risk for the global economy. In reality, this perception might be true for some large emerging economies, especially China, but not for its neighboring countries, namely those in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. There are several reasons why ASEAN economies are becoming increasingly appealing for investors, such as positive population...
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Building positive incentives: the potential of coalitions for sustainable finance
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The US retail crisis
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Precautionary recapitalisation: time for a review?
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Precautionary recapitalisations: time for a review
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How to make finance a force for sustainability
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Investing for the common good: a sustainable finance framework
London School of Eco. Blog
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The crisis of the French Socialist Party: Does the PS still have a future?
The French Socialist Party (PS) suffered a dramatic fall in popularity in the 2017 French presidential and legislative elections, with a number of high profile members subsequently choosing to leave the party in the aftermath of the result. Marco Damiani traces the party’s decline and assesses whether the PS still has a future in the French party system. The 2017 presidential and legislative elections in France produced a complete renewal of...
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Brexit can be stopped – but the window of opportunity is closing fast
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There’s no such thing as ‘associate membership’ of Euratom
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How party systems in Central and Eastern Europe affect government formation
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German election campaign series: CDU/CSU – “For a Germany in which we live well and enjoy living”
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Book Review: Migration, Ethics & Power: Spaces of Hospitality in International Politics by Dan Bulley
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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Fuest: ECB Needs Strategy for Phasing Out Ultra-Expansionary Monetary Policy
Ifo President Clemens Fuest has called on the European Central Bank (ECB) to announce a strategy for phasing out its ultra-expansionary monetary policy now, so that the financial markets can adapt to it. “This strategy should include no more bond buying as of January 2018 provided that the economic recovery remains on track and inflation continues to return to normal levels. Without a clearly communicated...
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ifo Viewpoint No. 188: Populist Blackmail and the EU
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Banning Combustion Engines Is the Wrong Line to Take
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Eurozone Economic Outlook
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Germany’s Current Account Surplus Does Not Harm Other Countries But Germany Is Nevertheless Breaking EU Rules and Should Try to Stimulate Private Investment by Reforming Corporate Taxation
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German Economics Professors Oppose Changes to “Agenda 2010”
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ifo Newsletter June 2017
On French Politics
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General Hullaballoo
It's a very simple story, really. General de Villiers, brother of the far-right politician with whom Macron flirted on the campaign trail, forthrightly told deputies he would "not allow [himself] to be fucked like that," meaning by Macron's announced budget cuts for the military. Macron just as forthrightly told the general he didn't appreciate such airing of differences in the public square, much less in such salty language, and...
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Macron’s Remarkable Vel’ d’Hiv Speech
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A Blogger’s Holiday
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The Silly Season
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Le Silence
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Another article on the elections …
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La droite déconstructée par les Constructifs
Eurostat News Releases
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Seasonally adjusted government deficit down to 0.9% of GDP in the euro area
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Government debt up to 89.5% of GDP in euro area
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How is the European Union progressing towards its Europe 2020 targets?
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Production in construction down by 0.7% in euro area
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House prices up by 4.0% in the euro area
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More than 8 million ICT specialists employed in the EU in 2016
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Annual inflation down to 1.3% in the euro area
Political Thoughts – The Magazine
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Corbyn, University Tuition Fees and Student Loans
Labour has now done a "Nick Clegg" and largely reversed its "No student fees" promise put forward in June to win the election. The Guido-Fawkes blog has kindly transcribed the details:Jeremy Corbyn: “I don’t see why those that had the historical misfortune to be at university during the £9,000 period should be burdened excessively compared to those that went before or those that come after. I will deal with it.” NME...
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The Way Forward
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Is the BBC biased about Brexit?
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The EU after Brexit
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Remain voters are not stupid?
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Are Remoaners Stupid or Evil?
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Big Business attack Brexit
Protesilaos Stavrou
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July 12: I support #NetNeutrality
The United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has plans to put an end to the era of Net Neutrality. The idea is to allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to discriminate against different types of users or content, in order to allocate bandwidth where they consider it necessary. This is particularly dangerous. ISPs will be in a position to effectively rig the entirety of communication and exchange to suit their agenda. Consumers...
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Amendments to the Tallinn Declaration on e-government
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New book: Dialogues on EU politics
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On the EU reflection paper about security and defence
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On the EU reflection paper about euro reform
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Thoughts on the future of EU defence
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On the EU reflection paper about globalisation
The Economist Europe
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The cost overruns on Russia’s World Cup stadiums are staggering
FROM a boat cruising past the south bank of the Neva in St Petersburg, passing the baroque facades of the Winter Palace and the gilded dome of St Isaac’s cathedral, it can seem as if the 19th century never ended in Russia. But turn to the river’s north side and you will see something much more futuristic: Krestovsky stadium, a Japanese-designed football arena nicknamed “the spaceship”. In June and July the newly opened stadium hosted several...
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Italy is facing a surge of migration across the Mediterranean
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France’s top general quits, in a test for Emmanuel Macron
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Emmanuel Macron is revitalising the European Union—and dividing it
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Poland’s government is putting the courts under its control
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Young Russians are brainstorming ways to oppose the government
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Donald Trump’s G20 speech owed a lot to Putin
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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Non è il libero commercio che favorisce i lavoratori
I poveri non si arricchiscono comprando beni meno cari (cioè con la globalizzazione), ma guadagnando di più. E finora i dazi li ha messi Berlino I dazi! I muri! Le guerre! L’avvento di Trump ha colto di sorpresa i commentatori, cui sembra strano che, dopo trent’anni e passa di diminuzione della quota salari, gli oppressi, non potendo...
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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
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Stradella, musica sacra e profana dell’Italia che fu la Patria dei talenti
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Duemilamiliardi di Pil andati in fumo dal 2008
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Produzione industriale, i numeri di un disastro che non ha precedenti
Antonio Fatas
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Make the Risk Premium small again
In one my previous posts I looked at the stock market valuations in the US to conclude that they were in line with recent historical data. In fact the stock market looked cheap relative to most years since the mid 1980s.But that was before the US election! Since the election the stock market has gone up and interest rates have gone up as well. How do stock market valuations look like today?I follow the same methodology of the previous post and...
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The OECD procyclical revision of fiscal policy multipliers
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The stock market looks cheap
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You can lower interest rates but can you raise inflation?
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Experts, facts and media
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9, 8, 7, 6.7,… Speculating on China growth
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The asymmetry of inflation or the ECB?
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