The Closer
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ROUND-UP The US S&P 500 closed roughly where it started the day after having fallen early in the trading session, while yields on safe haven debt rebounded somewhat from Friday’s lows....
Prometheus
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I was impatient to see this film. I am a great admirer of Ridley Scott and his latest film has been getting good reviews in the British press, so tonight we went and watched Prometheus. First, one piece of excellent news for The Wire fans; Stringer...
Austerity has never worked | Ha-joon Chang
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It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recessionLast week saw a string of bad economic news reports. The eurozone leaders seem unwilling or unable to change from their austerity polic...
ECMI Library Acquisitions – May 2012
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As of May 2012, one can also find the following titles in the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) Library. Continue reading →...
Monday miscellany
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Corgis: they enjoy have Royal patronage but,ultimately, they're still not cats ... Apart from waving at boats and feeding her Corgis, Queen Elizabeth has been quite busy lately. She has given her Royal Assent has been given to the Legal Aid, Sentenc...
European Products Vs Chinese Products - A First Person Experience
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European bathroom accessories, as is the case with many other European designed and manufactured products, are superior to most bathroom accessories made in China. The reason for this is simple. The mindset of a company in China is to mass produce a...
Mapping MF Global’s cash
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You’ll find 53 pages of charts like the one above in the MF Global trustee’s report trying to map the broker-dealer’s cash transactions in the week beginning October 26,...
A meaningful difference in terms of development
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According to the South African Trade and Industry Minister, Rob Davies, facing key challenges can make a meaningful difference in terms of growth and development in Africa. An inadequate infrastructure, small and fragmented markets, as well as insuf...
ACP-EU updates: the JPA, crisis-spillover, and SADC integration
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Horsens, Denmark, recently witnessed the latest ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA). Apart from topics frequently discussed by the MEPs and their counterparts from the ACP Countries during previous meetings, they also took a deeper look at...
Regierungen, Märkte und Bürger in Europa
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Nach drei Jahren voller Gegenmaßnahmen und verspäteter Reaktionen, die stets im nächsten Moment von den Ereignissen ad absurdum geführt wurden, sind alle Akteure in diesem Spiel – Regierungen, Märkte und Bürger – zu der Überzeugung...
Will rates stay low, QE or no?
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It was inevitable that the abysmal payrolls report last Friday would make louder the calls for another round of quantitative easing from the FOMC, which meets later this month....
Evropa na razpotju
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Komentar na krizo v EU in evroobmočju, iz zadnje številke V Soboto. Glavno sporočilo je, da se morajo voditelji nehati igrati z ognjem, se zavedati resnosti situacije in predlagati korenite posege, ki bodo premaknile EU bliže federalizmu. Bolj ko...
ACP fisheries to be hot topic of discussion in Fiji
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This month Fiji will see the 3rd ACP Fisheries Ministers meeting, which will gather more than 100 delegates from the ACP region to discuss key and current issues, such as the sustainable fisheries resources management. Notably, the meeting will se...
African lacks an institutional environment to boost innovation
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Following the second meeting of the Network for the Coordination and Advancement of Sub-Saharan Africa-EU Science and Technology Cooperation (CAAST-Net), held in Dakar, the recommendations made have pointed to the necessity of an institutional env...
Enjoying The Whole New You Along With These 7 Never-been-told Losing Weight Suggestions
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If you cannot resist yourself to wonder how other people can trim down their excess body mass successfully, the answer that you are looking for will be provided to you by this post and make you realize that you can accomplish your goal despite of you...
Eurozone: Paul Krugman Comments on Soros on the Euro
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Paul Krugman at the New York Times is quick on the uptake and already has comments at his blog, The Conscience of a Liberal, on the just published opinions of George Soros on the future of the Euro. See Krugman at Soros on the Euro. Crossposted a...
Dodd-Franking, May 2012
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Progress, ever so slow:The charts (inexplicably in pie shape) come from the latest update on Dodd-Frank rule-writing from the team at Davis-Polk. As you can see, only two...
Purges and Harassing Kulaks to Follow
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Greek leftist vows to cancel bail-out, renationalise economyIt looks it’s playtime in the Comintern revival sandbox, kids.Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras on Friday (1 June) unveiled his economic programme if he is elected later this month, pled...
A marginal bet
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A US GDP factoid that we missed last week, spotted by the econ team at Credit Suisse:We would note that the profit share of GDP in the first quarter, reported in [last Thursday's] GDP revision,...
Visa dialogue with Georgia and the annual migration report
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This morning, I had a meeting with Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigol Vashadze, on the occation of the launch of the European Commission’s dialogue with Georgia on visa liberalisation. This is an important step in the commitment to clo...
US policy directions on Syria crisis: livecross
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Livecross on US reaction (or lack thereof) on Sunday to Assad speech plus some analysis of direction of US policy for CCTV English.
Lembit Öpik will end up being eaten by lions in Skegness
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I'm worried about Lembit Öpik. Since losing his Montgomeryshire seat at the last election, The Estonian-Ulster LibDem has been behaving erratically, appearing on trashy reality TV programmes, trying his hand as a stand-up comic and producing pop vi...
