Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Thursday, April 2, 2020

2/4/20: US Record in Covid Response To-Date

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Much of the rhetoric coming out of the Washington on COVID19 pandemic is centred around the claims that the U.S. response to the pandemic ...
Friday, February 15, 2019

15/2/19: Euro area is sliding toward recession

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Based on the latest data through January 2019, Eurozone’s economic problems are getting worse. In 4Q 2018, Euro area posted real GDP growt...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

5/2/19: The Myth of the Euro: Economic Convergence

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The last eight years of Euro's 20 years in existence have been a disaster for the thesis of economic convergence - the idea that the c...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

18/08/18: Euromoney on Italian Banking Risks and Turkey Crisis

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Euromoney article on the latent Italian crisis, relative to the ongoing Turkish one:  https://www.euromoney.com/article/b19k3zjb7v811r/ita...
Friday, June 29, 2018

29/6/18: Can, Foot, Road: EU 'Agreement' on Migration Crisis

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The EU27 have a new 'deal'. This time, on revamping the block's migration strategies in the face of continued relentless wave ...
Monday, June 4, 2018

4/6/18: Italy is a TBTF/TBTS Problem for ECB

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In my previous post, I talked about the Too-Big-To-Fail Euro state, #Italy - a country with massive debt baggage that is systemic in natur...

4/6/18: Italy's Problem is Europe's Problem

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My article on Italian (and Spanish and Dutsche Bank) mess in Sunday Business Post :  https://www.businesspost.ie/business/italys-problem-e...
Monday, May 21, 2018

21/5/18: Italian Sovereign Risks Are Blowing Up

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As I noted in my comment to ECR / Euromoney  and in my article for Sunday Business Post (see links here: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.com...

21/5/18: Risk experts take flight over Italy's political risk

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Euromoney and ECR are covering the story of Italian political risk, with my comments on the rise of populism in Italy and its effects on...

21/5/28: Trouble is brewing in the Euro paradise

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My article for the Sunday Business Post  on the continued risk/VUCA from politics of populism to the Euro area reforms and stability:  htt...
Monday, March 5, 2018

5/2/18: Italy Smacks into VUCA Wall

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VUCA wins. In Italy. Italian elections results are coming in and several key VUCA components are now clearly at play in Europe's thi...
Monday, October 23, 2017

22/10/17: Italian North: another chip off Europe's Nirvana

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Having just written about the Czech electoral pivot toward populism last night, today brings yet another  news headline from the politica...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

7/6/17: European Policy Uncertainty: Still Above Pre-Crisis Averages

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As noted in the previous post, covering the topic of continued mis-pricing by equity markets of policy uncertainties, much of the decli...
Friday, April 28, 2017

28/4/17: Euromoney on Italian Risks

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Euromoney  article on the continued evolution of the Italian crisis:  http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3712913/Country-risk-Italy-is-the-v...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

12/4/17: European Economic Uncertainty Moderated in 1Q 2017

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European Policy Uncertainty Index, an indicator of economic policy risks perception based on media references, has posted a significant mo...
Monday, February 20, 2017

20/2/17: The Effect of GFC on Italian Non-Performing Loans Overhang

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In yesterday’s post I covered some interesting current numbers relating to NPLs in the European banking sector. And sitting, subsequently,...
Friday, October 28, 2016

28/10/16: Rising Risk Profile for Italy

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Euromoney Country Risk on Italian referendum and rising risks relating to Euro area's third largest economy:
Friday, June 10, 2016

10/6/16: Italian Manufacturing Capacity post-crisis

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A third paper on manufacturing capacity, also from Italy is by Libero Monteforte and Giordano Zevi, titled “ An Inquiry into Manufacturing...

10/6/16: Italian Industrial Production: 2007-2013

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Staying with the earlier theme of industrial / manufacturing sector trends, here is a paper from the Banca d’Italia, authored by Andrea Lo...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

4/5/16: Canaries of Growth are Off to Disneyland of Debt

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Kids and kiddies, the train has arrived. Next stop: that Disneyland of Financialized Growth Model where debt is free and debt is never too...