Showing posts with label Crisis in Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crisis in Europe. Show all posts
Thursday, May 16, 2013

16/5/2013: Euro Area 'Austerity' in One Chart

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Frankly, folks, there is nothing like making a factual argument across emotive subject lines... I have put up two posts on Euro area 'a...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

12/5/2013: Much austerity? Not really... & not of the kind we needed

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A week ago I published a blogpost exploring IMF data on austerity in Europe, based on a sample of 20 EU countries with advanced levels of e...
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Thursday, May 2, 2013

2/5/2013: Austerity... savagely over-hyped?..

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It was May 1 yesterday and in celebration of that great socialist holiday, "In Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy and France tens of thou...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

27/10/2012: Ireland, Euro Area and US 2013-2016

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Another interesting set of data from the Citi Research: Table 1: These are Citi forecasts for real GDP growth. Two pints of interest: ...
Friday, December 2, 2011

2/12/2011: Euro crisis: wrong medicine for a misdiagnosed patient

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There's been much talk about the fiscal union and ECB money printing as the two exercises that can resolve the euro area crises. The pr...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

24/10/2011: Some interesting links

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Couple of interesting links on various topics of the crisis: Fist, my most recent post for The Globe & Mail EconomicsLab:  Europe’s (...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

16/10/2011: Hot air balloon of G20 summits

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Having by now grown accustomed to the vacuous and pompous non-statements from European leaders of the crisis, one could not have expected...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

25/08/2011: National forecasts and systemic upward biases

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New research, published today by NBER shows that national growth and budget forecasts in the Euro area tend to overestimate growth and reven...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

07/08/2011: Emergency G7 Summit - Policy Dilemma

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My latest column in the Globe & Mail on the topic of G7 emergency summit: link here .
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

05/07/2011: Pre-ECB council meeting note

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Here's my (cynical, but) concise summary of the pre-ECB call on rates this week: We (Euro zone) have: Greece being kept alive pretty muc...
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Economics 12/12/10: Europe's crisis won't be solved by the ideas advanced to-date

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The most revealing feature of the EU response to the current crisis is the nation states' and Brussels/Frankfurt total denial of the rea...
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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Economics 3/10/10: The real stress in Euro area banks

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"A picture's worth a 1,000 words" an old proverb goes. So here's a couple of pictures from the latest GFSR analytical pape...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Economics 19/06/2010: A quote

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An unexpected quote (hat tip to Open Europe): "What went wrong wasn't what happened this year. What went wrong was what happened in...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Economics 24/04/2010: Greece and Ireland

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The unedited version of my op-ed in today's Irish Independent (link here ) “It’s been a brilliant day,” said a friend of mine who manag...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Economics 17/03/2010: Stuck in the Euroland

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The silver lining to the ongoing PIIGS crisis in the Euroland is that finally, courtesy of the severe pain inflicted by the bonds markets, B...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Economics 27/10/2009: What credit flows data tells us...

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There is a superb blog post by Ronan Lyons exposing the economic nonsense spun by Nama supporting 'economists' - read HERE . In c...
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