Harp-ing on about mortgages and market share
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When the godfather of mortgage securitisation speaks, you listen.This week Lewis Ranieri devoted a not insignificant amount of time from his Milken conference panelist discussion...
Main ACP-EU events for the week from 07/05 to 13/05/2012
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European Parliament- 8 May : Committee on Foreign Affairs- 8 May : Committee on Development - 8 May : Committee on International Trade - 7/8 May : Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety- 8 May : Committee on Industry, Research an...
Europe: the problem is not ‘north-south’ but ‘east-west’
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In his stimulating recent post ‘France and the New Balance of power’, Oxford’s Geoffrey Gertz argues that the near-certain election of Francois Hollande will change the balance between ‘North’ and ‘South’ in Europe. Having for so long r...
Madrid view: Mutiny on the Bounty
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Power can be exercised directly, by submitting an issue to a vote, or more subtly, by eliminating all discussion on a policy and its alternatives from public discourse. What is not talked aboutRead more…...
Brussels blog round up for 28 April – 4 May 2012: Political winds are blowing against Germany, calls to boycott Ukraine and Euro 2012, and is Schengen under threat?
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Chris Gilson and Julian Kirchherr take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU Centre In the wake of the financial and economic crisis, freedom of movement is under attack in the EU. The Centre for European Reform explores why and …...
“A gradual deterioration in the collateral backing multi-cedulas”
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Covered bonds. The sacred cows of the fixed income universe. The instruments which have never knowingly failed (thanks to their cover pool of secured assets). Magic bonds.It...
Gold And Silver Prices Hold Firm As Stocks Tumble And Commodities Plummet
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Financial Market Report for the week ending May 4, 2012; the fourth weekly report of entrance into the Second Great Depression. Gold, GLD, and Silver, SLV, prices held firm today as World Stocks, VT, traded sharply lower, and Commodities, DBC, plu...
Fostering a new generation of coders
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Last year, our executive chairman Eric Schmidt urged the UK to take advantage of its “great computer heritage” by increasing the number of students studying computer science. We’ve now teamed up with the Guardian newspaper to encourage a new ge...
Quote of the day: Nick Griffin election meltdown edition
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With the inquest already underway after their worst defeats in years, the second sentence of the British National Party’s election analysis reads: “Is there something wrong with the British National Party or the public?” That’...
This Week in Luxembourg
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This week’s Grand Chamber case concerns software copyrights. The Court (per Judge Arestis) holds that it is not an infringement of copyright to duplicate the functionality of a programme. Moreover, once you’ve legally obtained a licensed copy of...
Does Teflon make for leadership material?
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As the votes are counted across London today, it looks more and more likely that Boris Johnson is about to be re-elected Mayor for a second term. read more...
Friday Fantasies
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We all know what thetarget it -- but we still needto find the best way to hit it! Three cheers for MARQUES! While INTA is the flavour of the moment (see earlier post here), this Kat is thrilled to see that MARQUES has decided to seize the init...
Markets Live transcript 4 May 2012
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Markets Live chat transcript for the chat ending at 15:07 on 4 May 2012. Participants in this chat were: Joseph Cotterill, FT Cardiff Garcia Izabella Kaminska JC Hello....
Czech Calendar Girl Founds New Party
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One of a bevy of Czech starlets that were voted into power in 2010 has founded her own political party.
US Markets Live – 10am New York, 3pm London
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Join Joseph and Cardiff (and maybe some special London guests) for US Markets Live, starting at 10am New York time, 3pm UK time. Among other things, we’ll probably be talking about this…...
Greek elections unlikely to yield any answers
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The Greek elections are almost upon us. Much of the attention (including ours) has been focused on the French election, possibly rightly given the potential impact on the Franco-German axis and the austerity approach to the eurozone crisis. The lack...
Ed Miliband dodges the bullet
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Miliband’s opponents on both sides of the chamber were hoping that today would be the moment things got very sticky for the Labour leader (see this cartoon from ConHome). But with the SNP failing to snatch Glasgow City Council and and Ken Liv...
ECFR this week: 4th May 2012
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The outcome of the French elections will have a significant impact on the future of austerity and growth in Europe - and the ‘Fiscal Compact’ has become a major topic in this context. As part ofRead more…...
Russia: Tolstoy's ‘War and Peace' Legacy Today
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RuNet Echo continues its series examining the 200th anniversary of Tsarist Russia's Victory over Napoleon by examining Leo Tolstoy's novel 'War and Peace' and the role it plays today online. On the RuNet, discussions about 'War and Peace' and Tolstoy...
