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War Begets War Refugees: The Moral Bankruptcy of Italy and NATO
War Begets War Refugees: The Moral Bankruptcy of Italy and NATO On April 26, 2011, a meeting that can only be described as sinister took place between the then Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting in Rome was how to deal with African immigrants. Sarkozy, […]
This Is What Global Currency War Looks Like: A Complete History Of Recent FX Interventions
This Is What Global Currency War Looks Like: A Complete History Of Recent FX Interventions After the dramatic collapse in the SNB’s defense of the Swiss Franc peg to the Euro, there was a period of relative FX peace in which few if any central banks engaged in outright currency intervention (aside from the countless […]
THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX
The Workshop/Store in Paris’ 18th Arrondissement – Photo (CC): Carton plein THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX In the North of Paris, the Carton plein association collects, cleans and sells discarded boxes. People in precarious situations recycle, deliver by bike and help move – gaining professional and life skills in the process. It all began with […]
The Great Greek Fudge
The Great Greek Fudge A third Greek bailout involving loans from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the eurozone’s bailout scheme, is now being negotiated. The start was quite rocky, with haggling over the preciselocation in Athens where negotiations need to take place and Greek officials once again withholding information to creditors. Therefore, few still believe that it will […]
The President Of France Wants Eurozone Members To Transfer Their Sovereignty To A United States Of Europe
The President Of France Wants Eurozone Members To Transfer Their Sovereignty To A United States Of Europe The President of France has come up with a very creative way of solving the European debt crisis. On Sunday, a piece authored by French President Francois Hollande suggested that the ultimate solution to the problems currently plaguing […]
Balance Of Superpowers: Comparing The US And Chinese Armed Forces
Balance Of Superpowers: Comparing The US And Chinese Armed Forces Whether China is busy championing trade deals outside of the US dollar, buying up some of the world’s biggest companies, taking over foreign housing markets, or building massive networks of nuclear or wind power grids, it is clear that the country is a world power […]
Troika Says Greek Proposal Not Enough To Meet Targets, Serves As “Basis For Negotiations”
Troika Says Greek Proposal Not Enough To Meet Targets, Serves As “Basis For Negotiations” Early on Saturday morning, the Tsipras government passed the Greek bailout proposal which it told the Greek people to reject – which they did – less than a week earlier. The grotesque farce continued until the very end when 15 Syriza lawmakers who […]
Varoufakis’ Stunning Accusation: Schauble Wants A Grexit “To Put The Fear Of God” Into The French
Varoufakis’ Stunning Accusation: Schauble Wants A Grexit “To Put The Fear Of God” Into The French Earlier we reported that Yanis Varoufakis, seemingly detained by “family reasons” would be unable to join his fellow parliamentarians and personally vote in what is likely the most important vote of Syriza’s administration: the one in which he and his party […]
Losing Control
Losing Control Markets are beginning to signal that policy makers are losing control. Many second-order-effects of the unprecedented and experimental global actions taken since the 2008 crisis are beginning to manifest. There are always causes and effects that develop; but they do so at different speeds. Many actions in recent years have prioritized ‘benefits today’ […]
Germany Crushes All Hope Of Greece Getting Debt Relief
Germany Crushes All Hope Of Greece Getting Debt Relief As the Grexit debate is falling into the background a new, far more powerful conflict emerges: one between Germany on one side, and the IMF, France, Italy, and perhaps even the US, when it comes to the all important issue of debt relief. As a reminder, […]
Greece Fallout: Italy and Spain Have Funded a Massive Backdoor Bailout of French Banks
Greece Fallout: Italy and Spain Have Funded a Massive Backdoor Bailout of French Banks In March 2010, two months before the announcement of the first Greek bailout, European banks had €134 billion worth ofclaims on Greece. French banks, as shown in the right-hand figure above, had by far the largest exposure: €52 billion – this was 1.6 […]
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em: France Up in Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em: France Up in Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law On Wednesday, France woke up to find that the National Security Agency had been snooping on the phones of its last three presidents. Top secret documents provided by Wikileaks to two media outlets, Mediapart and Libération, showed that the NSA had […]
Will Seizure of Russian Assets Hasten Dollar Decline?
Will Seizure of Russian Assets Hasten Dollar Decline? While much of the world focused last week on whether or not the Federal Reserve was going to raise interest rates, or whether the Greek debt crisis would bring Europe to a crisis, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague awarded a $50 billion judgment to […]
Germany, France Call for Fiscal and Political Union. Public Ignorance Vital for Success of EU Power Grab
Germany, France Call for Fiscal and Political Union. Public Ignorance Vital for Success of EU Power Grab Since Europe’s sovereign debt problems exploded onto the scene in 2010 the European Union has masterfully exploited the crisis to strengthen its grip over the old continent. It has stripped once-proud, independent nations of the last vestiges of […]
Was Charlie Hebdo a “Convenient” Incident for Policymakers?
Was Charlie Hebdo a “Convenient” Incident for Policymakers? Many Questions On the 7th of January two gunmen attacked the office of Charlie Hebdo, a French weekly magazine. The shooters were two brothers who belonged to the Yemeni branch of the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. The attack resulted in 11 casualties and many injured, while the […]
