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German elections 1: new anti-Euro party - Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD)
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(>5000 words)Dear reader,September 22nd will be Germany's next (federal) election day. Voters will be called to the polls to vote a new Bundestag, which then after the parliament reconvened, will vote a new chancellor (which sounds more exiting th...
Eurogroup's 'bail-in' of central banks around the globe: 426 bn €
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Dear reader,apologies, i made a mistake by not explicitly mentioning the potential for killing the market value of gold by implementing that Eurogroup 'rescue package' for Cyprus. I just mentioned the other massive 'market movers' and side effects of...
PAINI* 2b: Eurogroup responsible for confusion
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Dear reader,my Twitter timeline provided me with this piece by Dutch economists Eijffinger & Mujagic just some hours after PAINI 2 was published.PAINI by the way means: Panic About Idiocy Not Inflation, whereas WAINI was acronym for Worry about i...
PAINI part 2: Eurogroup creating EMU banking confusion
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Dear reader,it's always hard to find an appropriate headline.This time I could have used 'Euroland of Confusion' as there was once a song titled: Land of ConfusionFirst a few articles on the latest 'wisdom' of euro zone's finance ministers re.:...
Panic about idiocy: Sinking Europe - part I Cyprus
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Dear reader,first some technical changes due to a rapidly deteriorating situation in the eurozone:1.) From now on it's "panic about idiocy not inflation", whereas before it was just "worry about idiocy not inflation"2.) In order to be able to co...
Google translate's accuracy decreased ?
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Dear reader,just a very short blog entry as a follow up on the earlier call for an 'European translation software' posted here: Blogging isn't the only thing Europeans can't do This author doesn't know if this is 'just me', or if others also observe...
SNSReaal: The failure of banking oversight and politics in NL
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Dear reader,yesterday evening, February 6th 2013, professor Arnoud Boot (#) appeared on Dutch TV show 'Pauw en Witteman' where he gave his insights regarding the recent nationalization of SNSReaal.He gave the viewer his accont of what went...
Mr Münchau overlooked important developments in Italy
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Dear reader,yesterday, Sunday Jan 20th, it was brought to this author's attention that Mr Münchau wrote another¹ comment on Italy which misses a few points.It's hard to stay informed about all the events in the whole eurozone, and so Mr Münc...
Paul de Grauwe: Bedenken über Bankenaufsicht
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(dt. Übersetzung aus dem Niederländischen. Artikel erschienen in De Morgen, Dec 17th 2012)Letzte Woche wurde ein wichtiger Schritt in Richtung Einigung der Euroländer unternommen. Während des europäischen Gipfels kamen die Länder überein...
"Opposition sucks"
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Dear reader,just a few words on the current state of the German opposition, or to be more precise: on the main opposition party, the SPD or Labor.Of course "opposition sucks" is the translated version of a meanwhile famous quote (Ger) by former...
The Eurozone's Design Failures: can they be corrected?
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The Eurozone's Design Failures: can they be corrected? (London School of Economics, audio livestream , 81min)Speaker(s): Professor Paul De Grauwe Chair: Professor Nicholas BarrRecorded on 28 November 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Build...
Some blind spots of ECB and Bundesbank
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Dear reader,here are some remarks on two separate issues (ECB + Bundesbank) which have something in common: inflation.Again this author feels obliged to make some comments about some misconceptions on 'modern times' inflation and where he feels 'old...
Waini*: (part 7) Chinese will look after German care recipients
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Dear reader,first of all Waini is short for "Worry about idiocy not inflation", a series about what goes extremely wrong or where some serious misperception is taking place. Waini will be used from now on in order to shorten the headlines, give them...
Dutch FinMin de Jager: states acted as lender of last resort (video)
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Dear reader,it's unfortunately (as far as this author knows) impossible to translate video streaming, but here is what Dutch finance minister, Mr de Jager, said by and large in this NOS interview: (starting from approx at 2:20mins) "European sta...
Look 80 years back
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Dear reader,not only has the euro crisis crawled further since almost one year ago this author, in one of his first blog entries published here at Eurozoneremarks, tried to point out that using whatever means of "creative finance" to restore growth i...
EU strategy 2020: Re-industrialization of European continent
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Dear reader,first of all the initial reporting in German by the usually well-informed newspaper "Die Welt":EU plant Re-Industrialisierung des KontinentsThis author would like to thank Florian Eder, the author of this report, that he, as far as this a...
The essence of MEFO bills - funding the production of goods only
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Hjalmar Schacht in his post war recollections of pre WW2 financing tactics (on MEFO bills): >>The risk lay not in its construction, but in the manner and fashion in which it was operated. In the first place its application had to be controlled.
Worry about idiocy not inflation - Inflation in post war Germany
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Dear reader,(note: partly in German, to be translated later (meanwhile Google translate recommended)) unfortunately it's very hard to produce enough "output" by writing some opinion based blog entries while keeping track of latest developments a...
Geldpolitik: Wenn Ideologie den Blick fürs Wesentliche verstellt
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Lieber Leser,wie so oft, so ist auch dieser Beitrag dem Umstand geschuldet, daß dieser Autor über Twitter nicht nur über Wirtschaftsdaten wesentlich schneller und ideologisch ungefilterter informiert wird, als dies bei Lektüre der etablierten Med...
Der Spiegel, IMF, Greece and Troika
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Dear reader,just a few links , no comment:a.) initial report:Apr 2nd 2012 Schuldenkrise: Währungsfonds drängt auf Umschuldung von Griechenland (Der Spiegel)Without citing any sources, it wrote on Saturday that high ranking IMF...
