Showing posts with label euro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label euro. Show all posts
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...
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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27 November 2010

Just Say 'No'

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The Irish State faces a historical moment. In keeping with its tradition of courageous struggle for freedom and justice and the unique role ...
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26 November 2010

Merkel Confronts the Market Wolves

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Throughout the years of financial crisis it has been notable that financial and business interests have been writing the story. Media analys...
22 November 2010

Currency to Serve People and Planet

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We need to see the Irish tragedy as part of a wider picture: the ongoing currency wars and the struggle for domination of the global capital...
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14 June 2010

Time to Create the Renten-Euro?

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Why do currencies fail? If you did not know any better you would assume it was because the people in the countries supporting them became la...
10 May 2010

Theatre of the Absurd

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What are we to make of the late-night performance that took place in Brussels yesterday. The sums of money now being dramatically thrown aro...
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6 May 2010

Dollar, Euro, or Ebcu?

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The unaccountable power of credit-rating agencies has now come under attack from the EU's most powerful politician, Jose Manuel Barroso,...
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10 February 2010

Told Euro So

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Smugness is never an appealing characteristic, but I think we Greens are sometimes a little too reticient in taking the credit for being rig...
6 February 2010

Markets Beware Greeks Bearing Gilts

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As Greece stumbles its way towards the humiliation of an IMF loan it is the way this latest economic tragedy is being reported that causes m...
30 March 2009

When is an economist not an economist?

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I had a rather unpleasant experience last week at the Welsh Economics Colloquium, a gathering of research-active economists in Wales. I was ...