Tag Archives: Euro crisis
German eurosceptics strong enough to nudge Merkel
A new anti-euro party is unlikely to make it into parliament in the 2013 …
Filed under Allgemein
Merkel will cope with regional election defeat
The German Chancellor’s CDU party has lost an important regional vote. This gives her …
Gold move shows Buba can cave in to pressure
Germany’s central bank will repatriate some of its gold reserves. That could mean that …
Filed under Allgemein, Monetary Policy
Germans have peculiar love-hate affair with Merkel
(This article has also been published as a Reuters Breakingviews comment on 2 January 2013.)
The chancellor …
Filed under Allgemein
Excessive austerity doesn’t pay, IMF economists show
It is probably one of the most important trips in Greece’s modern history. On …
Filed under Economic Policy, Financial Crisis
Why there's more in Draghi's may-day speech than markets realise
Mario Draghi (Photo by Monika Flueckiger/ World Economic Forum, via Wikipedia)
At first sight, Mario …
Filed under Economic Policy, Monetary Policy
The "PIIGS plus" club on Twitter
Image via CrunchBase
I could not work out who initially started the whole thing, but, …
Filed under Financial Crisis, General Economics
Is there anyone who cares about the stress tests?
Moody’s, the rating agency, today has published an interesting analysis about the market reaction …
Filed under Banking, Financial Crisis
The science of haircuts
The Art of Haircuts (illustration by Klaus Meinhardt http://www.klausmeinhardt.de)
In the good old days, haircuts …
Filed under Financial Crisis
Will the Euro survive, David Marsh?
On Monday evening, David Marsh presented the second edition of this book about the …
Filed under Financial Crisis, Interview
