Thursday, December 29, 2011

Wishing Everyone a Happy Meltdown in the New Year!

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We'll be flying back from warm and sunny Goa on the 31st and arriving in Vienna in time for last minute shopping for the New Year. Then...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Standing on the Toes of Giants

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Many economists have been analyzing the world economic crisis in public arenas these last few years, and particularly the Eurozone crisis...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

What does Germany want (and why she can’t have it)?

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Economists and indeed the general public are increasingly mystified by the actions and words of the German government. On the one hand, C...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Stephen King on the EZ Shining (sorry, Failing... wrong Stephen King!)

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Stephen King has an interesting piece on "Why the eurozone deal will fail" in today's Financial Times . This inspired me to...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Kowtowing to Berlin, or, Niebelungentreue bis zum Untergang?

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The smoke is beginning to clear from the EU summit, and the results are not encouraging. We can now start reading between the lines to disc...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

The Showdown at the EU Corral

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I've been studiously trying to avoid obsessing about the Euro crisis this week, going out with friends to the (now egregiously commerci...
Friday, December 2, 2011

My Sincerest Apologies to the Great German Nation (for having an imbecilic government)

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In my last post I got carried away and turned Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski's description of Germany as the 'indispensable natio...