In Upset, François Fillon Beats Sarkozy, Leads Conservative Party Runoff Vote for French President
Fillion’s surprise win shows again how pundits and pollsters failed to read the mood of voters.
Read more...Fillion’s surprise win shows again how pundits and pollsters failed to read the mood of voters.
Read more...A round-up of opinion after the UK High Court’s ruling that the triggering of Article 50 should involve the UK Parliament.
Read more...France seeks to implement a variant of a biometric ID database that was nixed by its courts. Will this succeed and set a dangerous precedent?
Read more...Why a Brexit, even if it moves forward, seems unlikely to lead to a Eurozone breakup.
Read more...Why over-reliance on monetary policy and the failure to engage in fiscal deficits is a toxic mix.
Read more...The ECB is set to dig its hole even deeper….
Read more...Economists are more and more worried about Germany’s rising trade surpluses. Calling Wolfgang Schauble to the white courtesy phone….
Read more...The UK faces a customs nightmare as IT systems needed to handle the new volumes and requirements are almost certain not to be ready on time.
Read more...How to determine whether or not to write down troubled loans.
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Read more...Even by the standards of European kick-the-can-down-the-road exercises, measures to stave of an Italian banking crisis are really slapdash.
Read more...A discussion of why the center-left failed to revive in Europe after the crisis. Some of the reasons apply to the US as well.
Read more...Theresa May may have thrown a spanner in the Brexit works by pushing for a xenophobic “hard Brexit”. Accident or design?
Read more...As Monte dei Paschi flounders, details of past chicanery emerge, implicating Deutsche Bank, Normura, the Bank of Italy, and Maro Draghi.
Read more...Another bailout of two of Spain’s franken-banks: mostly state-owned Bankia and wholly state-owned Banco Mare Nostrum (BMN).
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