Category Archive: 2) Swiss and European Macro

2020 Cambridge Union address | DiEM25
ABOUT THE CAMBRIDGE UNION: From its small beginnings as a debating society, the Cambridge Union is the oldest debating society in the world and the largest student society in Cambridge. The Union remains a unique forum for the free exchange of ideas and the art of public debate.
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Vor Gericht und auf hoher See ist man in Gottes Hand, an den Finanzmärkten bald auch?
Es klingt zunächst ehrenhaft, wenn sich ein virtueller Flashmob von braven Kleinanleger machtvoll gegen skrupellose Hedgefonds wehrt. Im Sherwood Forest, in der Finanzwelt, soll Robin, das Gute, gegen den Sheriff von Nottingham, die Hochfinanz, gewinnen, oder?
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DIW-Präsident Fratzscher: “Dass wir einen Wirtschaftsboom erleben werden, halte ich für gewagt”
Der Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Prof. Marcel Fratzscher, wagte am Mittwoch im Rahmen eines Gesprächs mit Vertretern des Vereins der Ausländischen Presse einen Ausblick auf die Entwicklung der deutschen Wirtschaft im Jahr 2021.
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Yanis Varoufakis meets Owen Jones
Yanis Varoufakis is one of the world's most famous economists and left-wing intellectuals. The former Finance Minister of Greece, he is a Greek politician, the founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25) and launched the Progressive International with Bernie Sanders.
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Swiss Retail Sales, December 2020: 3.5 percent Nominal and 4.7 percent Real
Retail trade turnover adjusted for sales days and holidays showed nominal growth of 3.5% in December 2020 compared with the same month of the previous year. Seasonally adjusted, nominal turnover grew by 2.2% compared with the previous month. Despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the whole of 2020, provisional results show nominal growth of 0.1%.
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ERC Viewpoints: The Future of the EU after Brexit with Yanis Varoufakis & Lord Lamont
In the first of our 2021 ERC Viewpoints webinars, ERC president Lord Lamont will host Yanis Varoufakis in a timely discussion of the future of the European Union following Britain’s departure. Lord Lamont and Yanis Varoufakis’ discussion will likely cover the hopes and fears for the future and the probable effect of Britain’s exit from the EU. After touching on the negotiation of the Brexit deal, we hope to hear an outline of Mr Varoufakis’ own...
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Swiss Trade Balance Foreign trade 2020: historic decline against the backdrop of a pandemic
Switzerland's 2020 foreign trade will bear the brunt of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic: exports (-7.1% to 225.1 billion francs) and imports (-11.2% to 182.1 billion) posted a historic decline. Never before have they suffered such a significant quarterly decline as in the second quarter of 2020. Foreign trade has fallen back to its level recorded three years earlier. The trade balance closed the year with a record surplus of CHF 43.0...
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Varoufakis THREATENS EU with eurozone exit as he rages at bloc for ‘bankrupting’ Greece
EUROSCEPTIC Yanis Varoufakis launched a renewed threat to Brussels as his party prepares to fight for Greece to leave the eurozone unless the bloc accepts his demands.
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Yanis Varoufakis: From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism | DiEM25
A lecture organised by University of Tübingen economics students, delivered on Monday February 3, 2020, on the theme "From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism".
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Hans-Werner Sinn: “Wenn das passiert, ist hier der Teufel los”
"Wenn das passiert, ist hier der Teufel los" sagte jüngst ein bekannter Top-Ökonom. Was er damit meint, erfährst du im Video.
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Swiss Producer and Import Price Index in November 2020: -2.3 percent YoY, -0.5 percent MoM
The Producer and Import Price Index rose in December 2020 by 0.5% compared with the previous month, reaching 98.4 points (December 2015 = 100). Compared with December 2019, the price level of the whole range of domestic and imported products fell by 2.3%.
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EU at risk of lMPL0Sl0N as Bundesbank’s ‘plan to print Deutsche Marks’ exposed
GERMANY's Bundesbank has a plan in the drawer for printing Deutsche Marks again, former Greek Minister Yanis Varoufakis claimed in a largely forgotten speech.
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Mein Interview mit Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn | Teil 3
Ich hatte das Vergnügen mit Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn über die wirtschaftlichen Folgen der Corona-Pandemie zu sprechen.
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