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Natura 2000: EU Reserves Are Facing Development Pressures
Natura 2000: EU Reserves Are Facing Development Pressures An astonishing 18 percent of the European Union’s land area is protected under a network of preserves known as Natura 2000. Now, at the urging of business interests and farmers, the EU is examining whether regulations on development in these areas should be loosened. Berlin’s world-famous landmark, the […]
Meanwhile In Greece, Pension Funds Tap Emergency Loans
Meanwhile In Greece, Pension Funds Tap Emergency Loans This has not been a great year to be a pensioner in Greece. Over the course of the country’s fraught bailout talks, Greece’s pension system was frequently in the troika’s crosshairs. As for PM Alexis Tsipras, pension cuts were generally considered to be a so-called “red line” […]
Tsipras Reportedly Set To Step Down, Call Snap Elections As Early As Today
Tsipras Reportedly Set To Step Down, Call Snap Elections As Early As Today As Greece struggled to seal the deal on its latest bailout agreement with creditors, it became abundantly clear that embattled PM Alexis Tsipras was going to have a difficult time preserving his coalition government. In short, the Syriza defections were mounting with […]
Where Do I Store My Wealth?
Where Do I Store My Wealth? International diversification of wealth (no matter how large or small) can save your economic freedom. Although most of our readers thoroughly understand this concept, one of the most oft-heard concerns is that, by offshoring assets, one may not be able to get to them as easily as they […]
Approaching a Global Deflationary Crisis?
Approaching a Global Deflationary Crisis? Anyone with any sense for global economic trends ought to be worried. The signs are everywhere of a serious deflationary crisis. It is obvious that Chinese growth is falling. The prices for energy and the raw materials that feed the growth economy keep falling. The demand for Chinese exports is […]
Euro ministers give blessing to Greek bailout, wooing IMF on debt
Euro ministers give blessing to Greek bailout, wooing IMF on debt Euro zone finance ministers have agreed to lend Greece up to 86 billion euros ($96 billion) after Greek lawmakers accepted their stiff conditions despite a revolt by supporters of leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Assuming approval by the German and other parliaments, 13 billion […]
EU Aims to Lure Greek Deposits Back to Banks With Bail-in Shield
EU Aims to Lure Greek Deposits Back to Banks With Bail-in Shield Euro-area finance ministers shielded Greek bank depositors from any losses resulting from the restructuring of the nation’s financial system, as part of Friday’s deal on an 86 billion-euro ($96 billion) bailout. Senior bank bondholders will be in the crosshairs if Greek lenders tap […]
Both ECB And BOJ Warn More QE May Be Response To Chinese Currency War
Both ECB And BOJ Warn More QE May Be Response To Chinese Currency War Minutes from the ECB’s most recent policy meeting reveal that Mario Draghi and company have a number of concerns about the pace of economic growth in the euroarea and about the outlook for inflation which, much to the governing council’s surprise, […]
Greece – A Mystery and the Core of the Problem
Greece – A Mystery and the Core of the Problem The Industrious Greeks Mystery In the course of the Greek crisis, animosities between creditor countries like Germany and Greece didn’t take long to surface. They were fired up in the tabloid press, which was quick to revive various stereotypes. In Greece, Germans soon found themselves […]
Varoufakis: “In 1967 There Were The Tanks And In 2015 There Were The Banks”
Varoufakis: “In 1967 There Were The Tanks And In 2015 There Were The Banks” It was back on January 31 of this year, long before the “game theoretical” approach of Greek negotiations with the Eurogroup and ECB in particular and the Troika, and now Quadriga in general was revealed, that we first forecast with absolute accuracy […]
Power and Compassion
Power and Compassion Time to tackle a topic that’s very hard to get right, and that will get me quite a few pairs of rolling eyes. I want to argue that societies need a social fabric, a social contract, and that without those they must and will fail, descend into chaos. Five months ago, I […]
EU’s Greek Debt Austerity Plan Rejected By The IMF
EU’s Greek Debt Austerity Plan Rejected By The IMF I have maintained since the so-called Greek Debt “crisis” began back in 2010, I believe it was, that the imposition of austerity on Greece could not possibly work and that the only solution was to write down the debt to a level that Greece could service […]
An Exasperated Tsipras Calls For Syriza Referendum On Bailout Cancellation
An Exasperated Tsipras Calls For Syriza Referendum On Bailout Cancellation Anyone who thought Greece’s third bailout program was a done deal or that, at the very least, the market would get a few months of respite before having to grapple with daily Grexit headlines again, got a rude awakening late last week when reports of […]
What Happens When Economists Talk Politics
What Happens When Economists Talk Politics As the “Varoufakis Files” provide everyone interested in the Greek tragi-comedy with an additional million pages of intriguing fodder -we all really needed that added layer of murky conspiracy, re: the Watergate tapes-, a different question has been playing in my head. Again. That is: Why are economists discussing […]
