Archive for the ‘Battle for Europe’ Category
Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2012
Un changement peu attendu encore par les observateurs, malgré des signaux concordants, sera le déclin sinon l’effondrement de la puissance américaine. Il vaudrait mieux parler de la puissance atlantique pour y inclure la Grande Bretagne. Celle-ci ne semble pas en voie de se désolidariser de la puissance américaine et risquera donc de la suivre dans sa chute.
Jean Paul Baquiast
Newropeans-Magazine
9th February, 2012
Un certain nombre d’experts, dont le politologue franco-européen Franck Biancheri 1), prévoient pour les prochaines décennies d’importants changements dans l’ordre du monde. Il ne s’agit pas d’annoncer des évènements encore inattendus, mais de mettre en perspective un certain nombre de changements en profondeurs (dits aussi systémiques) que la plupart des observateurs constatent mais dont ils ne tirent pas encore de conclusions significatives.
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Posted by seumasach on February 9, 2012
Ekathimerini
9th February, 2012
Government sources have revealed that a deal has been reached over how to find the 300 million euros in savings that the troika was demanding to prevent cuts to pensions that three parties in Greece’s coalition government were not willing to accept.
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Posted by seumasach on February 2, 2012
Watch out everyone- we’re in for “a period of balance-sheet adjustment”
ForexPros
2nd February, 2012
In a surprisingly (but also refreshingly) candid admission, Fed Chairman Bernanke declared last night that another round of quantitative easing may well be necessary to alleviate “high and persistent unemployment in an underperforming economy”. With inflation still low and Europe a potential drag on the economy, the Fed Chairman clearly feels that more asset purchases are a risk worth taking if it helps the recovery become more self-sustaining.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2012
China Daily
28th January, 2012
DAVOS, Switzerland – The leaders of Denmark and Finland said on Friday that China has showed a willingness to contribute to global efforts to bail out debt-ridden European countries. However, a senior Chinese policy adviser said there should be preconditions.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2012
Nikos Xydakis
Ekathimerini
29th January, 20112
The crisis has taken a toll on our standards of living and created a rift in the social contract. In the political arena, the rift caused by the crisis is in the relationship that has developed between the people and the leadership, or the masses and the elite. This rift is best illustrated by the frequently heard condemnation that the government has lost its legitimacy.
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Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2012
Since every media outlet, “expert”, pundit, political party or current in the country has been telling us day in day out over several years that the Euro is going to collapse, the real news here is the astonishing fact that a third of the British population don’t think it’s going to collapse
Metro
27th January, 2012
A total of 68 per cent think the single currency will not survive, according to a survey by Harris Interactive for Metro.
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Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2012
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré
Euro Intelligence
20th January, 2012
With the survival of the euro area at stake, and the reform of the international monetary system no longer a priority of the G20 presidency, it may seem strange to call for an increased international role of the euro. But the flaws of an international monetary system centered on the US dollar are substantial and these flaws are likely to inflate as world economic growth is mainly driven by emerging countries.
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Posted by seumasach on January 26, 2012
It really is unusual to read such a sane analysis in the British press!
Philip Stephens
FT
19th January, 2012
I keep hearing people say don’t blame the rating agencies. My first reaction is why not? After due and sober reflection my considered response is why the hell not?
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2012
We always post GEAP’s public announcement with which we are once again largely concurrent, and we strongly recommend
their website
GEAB no.61
16th January, 2012
This GEAB issue makes it six years that the LEAP/E2020 team have shared their anticipations with their subscribers and readers of their public briefing on the development of the global systemic crisis each month. And, for the first time, in the January issue which presents a summary of our anticipations for the year to come, our team anticipates a year which will not result solely in a worsening of the world crisis but which will also be characterized by the emergence of the first constructive elements of the “world after the crisis” to use Franck Biancheri’s phrase from his book «
The World Crisis: The Path to the World Afterwards ».
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2012
A European investment fund is urgently required to rebuild the real economy.
M&C
19th January, 2012
Berlin – A Franco-German plan to ward off recession in the eurozone urges diverting EU cash to help eurozone nations struggling under austerity, as well as a transactions tax on the finance industry, a German newspaper reported Thursday.
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