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We’ve moved!
This is a “last call” for anyone who would have missed the fact that I’ve moved my writing to the sleek, new bilingual English/French blog at http://www.craigwilly.info (en français ici). This old blog still passively gets 20-50 clicks a day … Continue reading
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Will the prophet Putin be proven right?
Last November, when the euro-shit really started to hit the fan, Vladimir Putin – with his habitual freedom of expression – predicted the European Central Bank would need to intervene to the tune of €1.5 trillion. Mario Draghi, who became … Continue reading
Draghi : L’équilibre budgétaire passe exclusivement par des réductions de dépenses
Mario Draghi, le président de la Banque centrale européenne, a été appelé dans le magazine Foreign Policy « L’homme ennuyeux le plus important du monde ». En effet, dans le contexte actuel de crise financière et budgétaire, la BCE est peut-être l’institution … Continue reading
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Tagged ECB, euro, Mario Draghi, social democracy, supply-side
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Draghi: Balanced budgets to be achieved through spending cuts alone
Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, has been called “The world’s most important boring man”. Indeed, in this context of financial-fiscal fiscal crisis, there is perhaps no more powerful institution in Europe than that which he heads. Its … Continue reading
Posted in article, eurozone series
Tagged ECB, euro, Mario Draghi, social democracy, supply-side
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The Economist discovers life not fair
The leading magazine of the global politico-economic elite - The Economist – has an article on the recent controversy over bankers’ pay warning of “The death of meritocracy”. I guess it’s noteworthy for this normally laissez-faire capitalist publication to recognize inequality … Continue reading
Posted in article, United Kingdom
Tagged class, Great Britain, inequality, meritocracy, The Economist
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Eurostat: Eurozone debt actually decreasing
…last year. Between June and September 2011, the debt of eurozone governments as a percentage of GDP fell from 87.7% to 87.4%. The recovery’s combination of GDP growth, rising revenue, and falling unemployment meant debt was falling at an annualized … Continue reading
Posted in article, eurozone series
Tagged Angela Merkel, ECB, euro crisis, Germany, Italy, Jean-Claude Trichet, Mario Draghi
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Raymond Aron on Europe, Israel, and dual loyalty
Raymond Aron, it is no secret, is my favorite French intellectual of the twentieth century. He was not a Great Philosopher, nor did he create an all-encompassing system, but I think if one had to read one single author to … Continue reading
Posted in essay, Famous People on Europe
Tagged European identity, European Union, France, Israel, Jews, Muslims, Raymond Aron
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German official ‘simply doesn’t understand’ rest of world
Gideon Rachman of the FT has great run-down of his recent conversations with German officials and diplomats. There is considerable impatience with the Davos-led, Lagarde-Cameron-Geithner line that Germany has to throw more money at the problem, by building a bigger … Continue reading
Eurozone, the Unravelling (III): The Fake Jobs & Growth Plan
I’ve been reading Molly Ivins so I almost put “like heartless, dumb bastards” but that wasn’t quite in keeping with the style of the publication: Was it the fact that both the IMF and the World Bank warned that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Merkel, ECB, eurozone crisis, recession, unemployment, Yes Minister
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Europe on Autopilot: How Krugman predicted the euro-mess in… 1998
I came across a December 1998 article in Fortune magazine by the indomitable Liberal economist and Nobel prize winner in which he takes a critical look at the monetary union the Europeans were creating. It’s quite amazing how much has not changed … Continue reading
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Tagged ECB, Eurozone, France, Germany, Paul Krugman, subtlety
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