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Launch Euro- bonds and then go a bit the Japan way...
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Update of April 6th, 2013I think that launching the Euro-bonds immediately would allow and make it easier to go a bit the Japan and its central bank way.Maybe we could it a try...although there are risks of a kine of competitive easing madnessHere be...
Euro- bonds: where are they?
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The debate on Euro-bonds seems stuck somewhere...A Curious Bull-Bear Stalemate. The European Commission's report on the public consultation on the European Commission Green Paper on the feasibility of introducing Stability Bonds showed only 40 respon...
It was posted exactly two years ago
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It was posted exactly two years ago on Friday, November 27, 2009 Just a REMINDER, republished exactly the same! Few days ago, inquiring minds asked Nobel Prize Krugman about debt/GDP ratio comparisons. There is a bizarre school of thought who ten...
Euro bonds or Bonds to be alive!
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When I published this post about Euro bonds in March 2009 I actually imagined the present situation. Now even the European Commission proposes something along the same lines I sketched them out in my posts. They call it wrongly Stability Bonds...
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE LIES GET GOING
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"Market jitters bring difficult choice between truth and lies for politicians, spokespeople".It's true that WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE LIES GET GOING.... But how to interpret the words of Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, f...
For the Italians future: "Ordem e Progresso" or stop voting Berlusconi...
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WHY ITALIANS ARE STILL VOTING AND/OR SUPPORTING SILVIO, OR JUST LAUGHING AT HIS JOKES ?
New ways of farming: why not?
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What does FARMING mean nowadays? Energy farming ensures that there is a consistent supply of energy by means of expanding, improving the various energies supplies aimed at maintaining a constant and local supply. Energy farming can be done in any co...
The "Domino theory" goes on: from Apocalypse Now to Odyssey Dawn
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"By early 1954, it was clear to many U.S. policymakers that the French were failing in their attempt to re-establish colonial control in Indochina (Vietnam), which they lost during World War II when the Japanese took control of the area. The Vietn...
Is nuclear power an option worthing the risks and costs?
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Reading this article about The lessons of Fukushima, one should draw few conclusions without fallacies: a) people tend not to learn from previous mistakes. Learning from lessons is a psychological human being, particularly politician, constrai...
Bread and Freedom: or changing diet/dictator
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Inquiring minds are asking "So, what's going on in the Middle East?" While it's true that some economists have been warning for quite some time about the effects of food/commodities prices, history should have taught that food and liberties are alway...
Furies by you: or Three women judges to hear Silvio Berlusconi hooker trial
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Three female judges will hear the case, which was "fast-tracked" by judge Cristina Di Censa to take place in Milan on April 6. Odes of Giosue Carducci/Miramar: Darkly the Furies, by you, to the wind. Shake out the sails.In Greek mytholog...
Bunga Bunga or The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
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What's happening to Italy? Berlusconi's escort scandal is self-explanatory of an history...of "fucking " dictatorships. However some Italians are pretty much convinced that the Fable of the Bees is just the political economy recipe the countr...
The Roman Salute: the case of Italian dictatorship
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I have received from a friend of mine the picture above. For its interpretation I would suggest to read the book on the Roman salute or saluto Romano. "This book is the first systematic study of the saluto romano, the Roman or Fascist salute, in the...
Bunga Bunga, the intruder!!
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Any similarity? Tunisian President fleed country amid unrest; Egypt's Mubarak is being pushed to flee country unless he grants civil liberties; Silvio Berlusconi is kindly requested to flee Italy as soon as possible and bring Bunga Bunga sys...
The Future of Facebook is in the past...of a lonely crowd
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Goldman Sachs is investing $450 million of its own money in Facebook, at a valuation that implies the social networking company is now worth $50 billion. Goldman is also apparently launching a fund that will bring its own high net worth clie...
Rising bond yields: would EU bonds end the crisis?
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There is an enlightening Spotlight on European Government Bonds with Current State of the Sovereign Debt Crisis in Picture made by MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis. I think his charts are showing clearly one thing: borrowing costs for EU c...
Where are the "good banks"?
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Followers of this blog may remember the debate about "bad banks" and "good banks" and lemon banking system. Looking at the table below from BIS Quarterly Review you may realize that there are now quite a number of bad banks in the Euro zone as sovere...
European debt crisis - Part II
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I keep writing that the only way out to the European debt crisis and the much feared domino or contagion effects is to a) stop the Ponzi scheme of public debt and its market for lemons of sovereign debt along with its EU money creation, b) restructu...
European debt crisis: back to the future?
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Over the last year, several posts of mine addressed European debt crisis issues. The problem is the link between Euro-zone sovereign borrowers and lenders. The risk has always been systemic within the Euro-zone to the extent that banks lent too much...
