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With Germany at long last imposing a nation-wide wage floor, the country’s slowly conforming to the rest of Europe. Come the crisis and the erstwhile ‘Sick Man of Europe’ became the continent’s economic valedictorian....
October 31, 2014 3:15 pm / 2 comments
Convincing people that dropping prices put them in harm’s way is a marketing bête noire on a par with electing a diehard intellectual to the office of president.
But politicians and their financiers have managed just that. Perceiving deflation...
April 10, 2014 2:24 pm / no comments
Unlimited purchases of ECB bonds? New dollars from FED? Maybe… Greece wants more time. Time is money.
A bit of tension was brought into the holiday boredom by the rumor brought by the German magazine Der Spiegel saying that ECB is preparing...
August 30, 2012 1:21 pm / no comments
Jánošík wasn’t Polish, he was Spanish! Two registered transactions at the commercial real estate markets in Italy in the second quarter. Did Angela soften after holidays? How Danica invests. Do you have peas in the freezer? And euros? When...
August 23, 2012 11:50 am / no comments
Bouncer Ottmar Issing. ECB once again kept Greece in the game. Will the next five-year plan be merrier?
Briefly today. Pandas are on holidays and without Angela Merkel who is having a rest and German Minister of Finance, Wolfgang Schauble, not...
August 16, 2012 12:00 pm / 1 comment
Central banks still don’t provide monetary opium, how long will the current illusions last without it? New taxes and economic growth. Milton Friedman would be 100 years old. Crisis is 5 years old.
Last week we challenged the governor of the...
August 10, 2012 10:54 am / no comments
When is going to happen the next Slovak cabinet billion-worth meeting? Is Draghi tough because Angela is on hliday? Will be two Greek bankrupts within six months a new European or Olympic record?
What a week! When it come to euro crisis, there...
August 6, 2012 9:58 am / no comments
Is destabilization of the EU really the only alternative? German constitutional court takes its time. The state won’t allow any competition in manipulating interest rates. Many Spaniards have put all the eggs in one basket, which is currently...
July 18, 2012 11:10 am / no comments
Who wants to be Minister of Finance of Greece should report to the director. Everyone in ECB was following football, players used as a collateral were playing. Will ESM turn into European zombie banks hedge fund? Will ESM run out of resources...
July 6, 2012 1:52 pm / 6 comments
We’ve been walled up. Greece has government but money is still missing. Which German team will win the European Championship? FED playing games, another package is postponed. How many Olympic medals will the EU-funded United Nations of Europe...
June 28, 2012 3:12 pm / 1 comment