The Closer
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ROUND-UP Today’s markets round-up from the FT: “Global equity markets rebounded on rising hopes for fresh stimulus measures to promote growth, as G7 officials discussed...
EU assistance to the Turkish Cypriot community
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Just in time for the upcoming Cyprus EU Council Presidency, the EU Court of Auditors issued a special report on EU assistance to the Turkish Cypriot community. In fact, between February 2006 and September 2011, a total of 292.3 million Euro was plann...
Den laufenden europäischen Verhandlungen
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Was wird bei den laufenden europäischen Verhandlungen herauskommen? Es wäre riskant, wenn Frankreich sich der Einfachheit halber damit begnügt, fein heraus zu sein, indem es Deutschland die Verantwortung für ein mögliches Scheitern bei den Eurob...
Russia – Turkey: love is a good solution for an enduring peace
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There are in Turkey nearly 500 000 Russian-Turkish married couple. And their children are the best symbol and hope for peace. We can see some of them as artists, actors, singers, ….. So Russia and Turkey are more than trade partners. They are v...
In Syria, foreign intervention will only shed more blood | Seumas Milne
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The US and its Gulf allies are already fuelling sectarian conflict in their proxy war with Iran. The fallout could be disastrousAs Syria descends deeper into civil war and human misery, pressure for yet another western military intervention in the Ar...
Firefox 13 emerges… A cyberculture roundup…
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TweetShare via emailFirefox 13 Brings New Home Page, One-Click Fix for Big Issues from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder The latest iteration of Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox 13, is now available for download. The new version brings several important ne...
American opinion of Wall Street
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A chart from Pew’s big new Trends in American Values: 1987-2012 report (page 64):And some details from the report:Positive views of Wall Street have slipped, though only modestly,...
O Sport, You are Peace?
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“Wars break out because nations misunderstand each other. We shall not have peace until the prejudices which now separate the different races shall have been outlived. To attain this end, what better means than to bring the youth of all …...
The latest out of Europe, and an ECB preview
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More grim details via Reuters, emphasis ours:All of the euro zone’s major economies are now in various states of decline, according to business surveys that heaped more...
A funding obsession
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"God gives you but he is never stuffing it into your bag," is an old Romanian saying suggesting that everything one achieves in life should come with an effort. Most Romanians seem to have forgotten the proverb under the Communist regime which gave c...
Michael Lewis and the luck speech
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It’s probably inevitable (for such a prolific writer) that Michael Lewis sometimes lapses into stereotyping and simplistic description in the service of telling a good yarn....
The Euro Crisis: Greece Could Learn from Argentina
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Michael J. Casey writing at SmartMoney.com tells us What Greece Can Learn From Argentina and its 2001 financial crisis. Hat tip to CaryGEE.
Commissioner Lewandowski and budgetary affairs
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This evening I accompanied EESC Vice-President Jacek Krawczyk, who is Chairman of the Committee’s Budget Group, to the Berlaymont headquarters of the European Commission for a meeting with Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski. On the agenda were the...
Coca-Cola cliché: Spaniards help ‘Polish plumber’ win Euro 2012 ticket in advert
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In an advert promoting the soft drink, a Polish man who has worked hard in Spain for the past five years is wistful about his country’s upcoming co-hosting of the football championships. People in the bar offer Jacek their bottles to send SMS codes...
Arms races and the real encumbrance problem
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Among the “financial arms races” that Andy Haldane described in his April paper was the race for safety by financial institutions.Since the start of the US crisis of 2007,...
Ayşe Özer kürtaj meselesi üzerine yazdı: MİSYONER POZİSYONU
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TweetShare via emailMİSYONER POZİSYONU Edilgenlikten hoşlanmaz erkek adam. Çocukluğundan itibaren öyle yetiştirilir. Sofrada yemeğin ilk servisi ona yapılır, baş köşede oturtulur. Her şeyin ondan sorulacağı, onun dünyanın, evrenin m...
Financial History Repeats Itself Too
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Recently I have been dipping into The Great Crash 1929 by J.K Galbraith. It is a wonderful book that I cannot recommend highly enough. Everyone should read it. It should be part of the curriculum in every country for every student. I can only hope th...
Financial History Repeats Itself Too
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Recently I have been dipping into The Great Crash 1929 by J.K Galbraith. It is a wonderful book that I cannot recommend highly enough. Everyone should read it. It should be part of the curriculum in every country for every student. I can only hope th...
Where Paul Krugman got it wrong (Ivory tower vs ISS)
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Dear reader,many times earlier the author here reflected on recent pieces by Paul Krugman and he was or is for that matter still right when he points out that Spain just needs to be like Florida and everything is fine: Florida Versus Spain.or in his...
From 27 July, London gets in Olympic riot spirit
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You! Yes, you: the young, gloomy European with the uncertain future, useful only for rebelling in the streets against the forces of order! Well the time for all that is over, because at the end of the tunnel there is a light descending from Mount Oly...
