The Dirty German Ditty That Got Erdogan So Angry That He Sued
It appears that Erdogan never got the memo: if you are going to be in politics, you need to have a thick skin.
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Mathew D. Rose: The Remarkable World of Angela Merkel and Her Friends
With friends like Merkel’s, who needs enemies?
Read more...Intra-EMU Divergence Is A Feature Not A Bug
Yves here. I’m leery of reinforcing the “competitiveness” meme, since it’s based on the false premise that all countries can be exporters. But this article nevertheless makes important observations about Eurozone structural flaws.
Read more...Fed Suddenly Having Emergency Meetings as European Banks Also Wobble
The Fed is suddenly looking very nervous, and by contrast, the Europeans don’t seem anywhere nervous enough on the banking front.
Read more...Ireland: a Recovery Built on Sand
How official statistics exaggerate Ireland’s performance, largely due to its status as a tax haven/offshore financial center.
Read more...A New Stability and Growth Pact? Let’s Drop the Technocratic Veil!
On how economic growth models constrain policy debates and choices among Eurocrats, and why that is no accident.
Read more...#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players
Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...Did Italy And Malta Actually Agree To Swap Oil Rights For Refugees?
Accusations by a Maltese political leader that Malta and Italy engaged in an oil-for-refugees swap has gotten legalistic responses.
Read more...The Consequences of Brexit for UK Trade and Living Standards
The economic consequences of leaving the EU are at the heart of the Brexit debate. This column studies how changes in trade and fiscal transfers to the EU following Brexit would affect living standards in the UK. Across a range of scenarios, Brexit leads to lower income per capita, but the magnitude of the loss depends on what trade policies the UK adopts post-Brexit. To minimise the economic costs of Brexit, the UK would have to remain closely integrated into the Single Market.
Read more...New Zealand’s FMA, the Breder Suasso Conundrum, Mossack Fonseca, and #panamapapers
A quick look at Breder Suasso, a New Zealand FSP with historic links to disreputable Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca
Read more...Leaked Memo Reveals IMF (Still) Wants Out of Greece Bailout and Plots to Pressure Germany to Act
A new leak shows the IMF as the least bad actor of the Troika, which given its record as a neoliberal fist in third world countries, speaks volumes about European politics.
Read more...Is the Oil Price-GDP Link Broken?
Explanations of the oil price decline are starting to acknowledge deflationary factors, even though the “d” word seems to be outside the pale .
Read more...Brexit: This is What We Call a Muppet Show
An update on the Brexit referendum.
Read more...The US is Beginning to Dominate Global Investment Banking: Implications for Europe
Europe’s banks are in retreat from playing a global investment banking role.
Read more...Don Quijones: Brexit Meltdown at the Bank of England
The current and former governors of the Bank of England are singing from very different hymnals on the subject of Brexit.
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