Category Archive: 2) Swiss and European Macro

Peter Bofinger beim Zinsgespräch 2013
Peter Bofinger, Professor für Volkswirtschaft an der Universität Würzburg, erklärt im VOL.AT-Interview anlässlich des Raiffeisen Zinsgesprächs 2013 die Ursachen der Euro-Krise und wagt einen Blick in die Zukunft der Gemeinschaftswährung. http://www.vol.at
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Viva la Democrazia! The Reign of the Spread is Finished!
Claudio Messora, one of most well known critics during the "Reign of the spread" between Italian and German bonds.He happy about the return of democracy.
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The Full List of Monti Reforms: Which Have Been Really Implemented?
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti passed 30 billion euros ($40.3 billion) in tax hikes (17 billion), pension and spending cuts (13 billion).
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German Economists and Merkel, the Implicit Followers of the Gold Standard
With ECB's OMT & "conditionality", that requires austerity and implicitly reduction of salaries in European periphery, Merkel & German economists have created consequences similar to a gold-standard.
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The Euro Crisis: Details and chronology and the German Perspective on it
The history of EU reforms, bailouts during the euro crisis and the German perspective on them
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In conversation with Jacques Noels, Founder, Crocus Technology
In this video interview, Jacques Noels explains the required skills and knowledge necessary to manage successfully a tech startup – in this case, a hardware company active in the field of secured memory chips.
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Euro Morons: Hyperinflation Successfully Avoided, Stagflation Successfully Created
Keeping Greece in euro zone, eurocrats or better “euro morons” have successfully avoided a weak drachma and a following Greek hyperinflation. Instead they successfully created stagflation. Currently European HICP inflation is at 2.5%, far above the max. 2.0% official ECB mandate, but the euro is becoming weaker and weaker. German salaries are rising with 2.6% …
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Frank Schäffler – Rede anlässlich der Änderung des zweiten Anpassungsprogramms für Griechenland
Frank Schäffler (FDP) redet im Plenum des Deutschen Bundestages anlässlich der Änderung des zweiten Anpassungsprogramms für Griechenland am 30.11.2012.
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Das Beste von Ludwig Poullain: Das Ende des Euros, der Beginn des Nordeuros
Ludwig Poullain: Das Ende des Euro rückt näher. Er treibt Völker wieder auseinander. Neid, Missgunst, Verachtung, selbst Hass sind wieder lebendig geworden.
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Prof. Dr. Bofinger: Nächste Quartale werden sehr schwi
Prof. Dr. Peter Bofinger, Mitglied im Sachverständigenrat, blickt skeptisch auf die weitere Konjunkturentwicklung in Deutschland. Sogar eine Rezession sei wieder möglich.
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Who’s the Next Downgrade Domino to Fall?…The UK?
Who Downgrades France MUST downgrade the UK, too After Moody’s downgraded France, we are waiting the next major sovereign to suffer the same fate. According to the must-read interactive graph on the BBC, France now has a medium risk of default, but the UK is still in risk status “low”. According to the BBC, each citizen …
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Falling Unit Labour Costs, but Rising Production Prices in the Periphery. Is this Competitiveness?
Currently European HICP inflation is at 2.5%, far above the 2.0% official ECB mandate, but the euro is becoming weaker and weaker. German salaries are rising with 2.6% per year. At the same time, the ECB cannot hike interest rates, because it wants to provide cheap money to the periphery. The periphery continues to buy German products, even …
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Swiss Exports Rise Thanks to Higher Export Prices. Sorry, What ????
Or how Swiss exporters are able to widen their margins thanks to the SNB currency manipulation Last week the Swiss export data for the third quarter was released. The news agency report was simple: Exports from Switzerland fell by a real 8.0 percent in September to 16.49 billion Swiss francs ($17.87 billion), the Federal …
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Frank Schäffler – Rede zum Altersvorsorgeverbesserungsgesetz (Drs. 17/10818)
Frank Schäffler (FDP-Fraktion) redet anlässlich der ersten Lesung vom 19.10.2012 zum AltvVerbG im Bundestag.
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74.8 percent of Norwegians Say No to EU Membership
In the latest poll, 74.8 percent of the Norwegian population says no to EU membership, while 17.2 said they would vote yes in any referendum. 7.9 percent have not decided. Seven out of ten voters of the ruling party do not share the party’s views on the EU and would have voted no in a possible referendum, … Continue reading...
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