Showing posts with label Eurozone crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eurozone crisis. Show all posts
16 December 2013

If Ireland Represents a Success then the Model is Broken

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Whatever your position on the Eurozone crisis it is an important day for Ireland. Today the country returns to being a democratic sovere...
18 March 2013

What is Going on in Cyprus?

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Why is the banktruptcy of a tiny economy in the Mediterranean making headlines across Europe? The answer is that the Cyprus solution is wh...
7 December 2012

Life Beyond Growth: Join the Evolution

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I have been puzzling over why the Office for Budget Responsibility, which was only established to give prudent and honest advice about ...
7 November 2012

We Are All Greeks

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Over the weekend I was able to engage in some discussions about events in Greece. It is an increasingly desperate situation akin to simila...
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4 November 2012

Fiat Luxemburg

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I am spending the weekend in Berlin as part of an expert group exploring creative and just responses to the financial crisis, funded by th...
4 October 2012

More Links to Germany

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As the parallels with the 1930s grow stronger, another commentator has written an article drawing attention to the way Germany was treated i...
23 September 2012

Financial Ignorance a Sinn

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The next step on the rocky road of the Eurozone crisis is the financial union, proposed by Barroso last weekend. The proposal for a banki...
22 August 2012

Obols or No Balls

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While policy-makers struggle to increase the flow of money in stagnant national economies they fail to see that it is not the quantity of th...
28 June 2012

Not Waiving but Drowning

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'There's not much to a bank except its licence, its computer system and its reputation.' Thus spake Martin Taylor on this mor...
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15 June 2012

Lending for Spending?

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At first sight the 'new' policy announced at the Mansion House last night is incomprehensible. Banks, whose job is to create money...
15 May 2012

It's the System, Stupid!

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So the Eurozone is on the brink of slipping back into Recession. The latest growth figures indicate the growing inequality that the single c...
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8 May 2012

Greek People Take on Financiers

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The situation in Greece is giving clear evidence that economics never could be separated from politics, and that the subject should have ret...
6 May 2012

Is it the Economy, or is Osborne Stupid?

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Now George Osborne has me really worried. We are all used to him misrepresenting how the economy works to score political points: there is n...
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20 February 2012

Greek Chorus

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I've thought about calling this blog 'thinking the unthinkable' but I decided to use such a cliched strapline was probably itsel...
13 January 2012

All Quiet on the Euro Front

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Am I the only person who is so cynical as to think that 'no news' rather than being 'good news' is actually an indication th...
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9 December 2011

Unified Continent not Single Currency

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The first time that I was in the uncomfortable position of agreeing with Conservatives was some ten years ago when, on behalf of the Green P...
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6 December 2011

Poor Standard of Credit Rating

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The delight about the rapprochement between Merkel and Sarkozy was short-lived, being undermined almost immediately by a threat from the cre...
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16 November 2011

Argentina Learns not to Pampa Financiers

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As the credit noose tightens, it is not surprising that commentators are seeking examples of countries who found their way out of unrepayabl...
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4 November 2011

Why is the Euro so Strong?

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With chaos in the negotiations with Greece, rumours of potential bankruptcy in Italy, and real concerns about the economies of Portugal and ...
26 October 2011

The Eurozone Crisis: A Warning from History

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I am thinking of creating my own derivative, called a political default swap. This is how it works. We each choose a country and bet against...
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