Why the zombie banks aren’t stressed by stress testing, about Austrian Japanese, and about how difficult life the Spanish banks and especially Spanish bankers have. And that Trichet, even though he uses bad economic theories and non- functioning...
April 10, 2012 11:29 am / 3 comments
Why not to believe door-to-door sellers, central bankers; which European country is the closest to a default,how Italians save money on food to sendpayments to the investment bank Morgan Stanley thanks to their clever politicians, and finally...
April 2, 2012 11:53 am / no comments
A survey of the Lithuanian economy conducted by the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) shows that eurozone problems do not leave anybody cold. Lithuania failed to join the eurozone in 2007 because it missed the inflation criteria by only...
March 27, 2012 12:17 pm / no comments
About elections which delighted Europe, about some new ideas from the city on the Seine and about a bankruptcy that turned out to be a bankruptcy.
A budget hatchet will be buried in Slovakia, and Robert Fico will be in charge of it. At least,...
March 27, 2012 11:59 am / no comments
This week about how FED doesn’t want to leave alone the “Print” button and what you can go to jail in Argentina for. In Europe, we will have a look at the biggest default in the history, hope that German Luftwaffe won’t take off, we...
March 21, 2012 1:22 pm / no comments
This week about Big Berta, Stiglitz’ duel with bad speculators, why Greece needs planning commissioners and about open hunting season for bad news messengers in the European Parliament.
The second round of three-year tender loans of the European...
March 20, 2012 1:21 pm / 1 comment
About good news from Iceland, the next act of Greek drama, Spanish ghost city, Presidential poetry and tough love in Europe.
We have good news for you.
Iceland is not junk anymore. Iceland is a country whose credit rating, unlike in the rest...
March 20, 2012 1:07 pm / 4 comments
INESS, Bratislava 7.3.2012
We added to our The State Waste database the whole proceeded year 2011. Database now consists of 824 documented cases of waste, clientelism and lawsuits brought up by the printed media since the year 2007. The total...
March 20, 2012 12:45 pm / no comments
Slovak think tank INESS, the Institute of Economic and Social Studies, calculated the total potential risk exposure related to Eurozone rescue mechanisms on per capita basis. It is published on the institute’s new project website eurokriza.sk...
March 9, 2012 1:46 pm / no comments
INESS released the Bill for Government Services for 2012. The annual price of the state for Slovakia increased by 2% and reached € 4,382 per citizen.
The Bill has been distributed by Slovak major opinion making daily SME in January 2012 in...
March 9, 2012 1:41 pm / no comments