The Closer
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ROUND UP Markets lost steam today as weak Japanese export and growth data highlighted a lack of global demand. The S&P 500 closed down 0.13 per cent.Positive Eurozone bond...
More Info on Chemicals Will Be Published
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More information from registration dossiers will be published on ECHA's website, starting in November 2012. Registrants can request that the information be kept confidential by updating their dossiers before the end of October. The action will implem...
Italy’s heritage for sale
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Italy’s government has unveiled a fire sale of some real gems of the country’s heritage. Some 350 historic buildings in the capital and historic towns across the country are to flogged off, including Castello Orsini di Soriano in Cimiano,...
More on banks and housing
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Last week we wrote about how US lending standards for mortgages have continued to tighten — in severe contrast to standards for other kinds of loans.This was reinforced...
Not the new media but corrupt managers are killing old media!
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In the last couple of days: 6 columnists have been fired [link in Turkish] from Akşam daily. 1 very popular critical columnist at Radikal daily, Yıldırım Türker, has been censored and decided to quit. Another, Tarhan Erdem, rumored to be censore...
Must the poor go hungry just so the rich can drive? | George Monbiot
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Sports stars like Mo Farah at No 10 will not change a simple fact: people are starving because of the west's thirst for biofuelsI don't blame Mo Farah, Pele and Haile Gebrselassie, who lined up, all hugs and smiles, outside Downing Street for a photo...
A(nother, yes) Paul Ryan roundup
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We didn’t want to overload our daily Further Further Reading list with a single topic, so call this a special edition:ASSESSING HIS BUDGET IDEAS 1) “The radical...
In the last 90 days, 70 soldiers killed, 11 workers and 1 MP kidnapped by PKK: Erdoğan’s grip maybe at a flip…
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Erdoğan who is effectively silencing domestic opposition having difficulties in dealing with the Kurdish question.. While, I idyllically hang out in Helsinki, Finland, thankfully away from Turkey’s growing political tension, only upset for mis...
Being British means something
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Policemen hi-fived our delighted children as we left the closing ceremony; volunteers, with stunning courtesy, thanked us for having come; staff at St Pancras handed out water bottles with unforced smiles; overseas visitors could be heard, in a babel...
Operation Transparency Bulletin #2
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Dear readers, Due to the holidays and to our thematic week on Cyprus’ EU Presidency, it is only now that we can publish the second newsletter of the Venezuelan Student Movement watching the Venezuelan electoral process. The following report sum...
Der Spiegel: "Putin´s Russia is Becoming a Flawless Dictatorship"
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Finally leading western media are awakening to the fact that Vladimir Putin is a dictator. The headline of German Der Spiegel´s article says it all:The Path to TyrannyPutin's Russia Is Becoming a Flawless DictatorshipVladimir Putin is rapidly t...
Poland’s Premier in Hot Water over Son’s Jobs
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A conflict-of-interest scandal that has embroiled the son of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is causing a political headache for the government.
Songbird in the Wharf sings its own tune
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London commercial real estate has survived the crisis better than many would have predicted. Demand has been underwhelming, yet relatively weak supply growth has meant prices remained pretty stable,...
Germany's Summer of discontent?
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Over the last few weeks, a range of German policymakers have fired broadsides against further German involvement in the eurozone crisis, and against further aid to Greece in particular. Referring to September’s troika report on Greece, Michael Fuch...
Top-down leadership too common in charities
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Instead of adopting the obvious and easy option of top-down management, charity leaders should opt for a so-called bottom-line approach that puts performance and the future of the organisation first, writes Graham Jones...
The bank CEO with droopy-the-dog eyes
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Oh, Jamie…Jamie, “America’s least-hated banker”, according to the New York Times back in 2010.Jamie, who can come across as “an overgrown frat boy”...
Would Wage Reform Have Helped?
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Why centralized wage bargaining might not have been the euro's problem.
François Hollande doit choisir ses contraintes
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Authors: Jean Pisani-FerryLes grammairiens s’étonneront peut-être de la lecture que le Conseil constitutionnel vient de faire du traité budgétaire européen. Certains de nos partenaires y verront sans doute une prise de liberté avec l’esprit...
François Hollande doit choisir ses contraintes
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Authors: Jean Pisani-FerryLes grammairiens s’étonneront peut-être de la lecture que le Conseil constitutionnel vient de faire du traité budgétaire européen. Certains de nos partenaires y verront sans doute une prise de liberté avec l’esprit...
Bundesverfassungsgericht risk strikes again
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A Swiss bank asks a German professor for advice to clients on the prospects for a European bailout fund.It must be Karlsruhe and ESM ratification!UBS recently organised a call...
Continuing policies to reduce wage costs may push the Eurozone into further economic and social disaster.
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Recent years have seen declining wage costs in the crisis-stricken countries of Spain, Ireland, Greece and Portugal. Ronald Janssen argues that this trend has not delivered export led growth, as predicted by mainstream economic thinking, and that fur...
