Tag Archive: Merkel

Merkel, European Autonomy, and the ECB

2018-08-25

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2018-08-25

Merkel has again shown herself to be more wily than most. While pundits, investors, and politicians anticipated she would push hard for a German to replace Draghi as ECB President when his term ends next October. After all, it is German's turn at the helm, and its interests were ridden roughshod over by the extraordinary and prolonged monetary policy.

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8) Euro Crisis and Euro Macro

We are currently looking for a curator that takes over the euro macro category. The Euro Crisis and its Reasons, details and chronology, German economists ,Eurobonds, fiscal or banking union,Who Says No to Austerity, Says Yes to the Northern Euro Ways to the Northern Euro

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Currency Outlook and Net Speculative Positions: Week from July 16

2012-07-16

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2012-07-16

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Currency Outlook and Positioning: Week from July 16 Guest Post from Marc Chandler

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Only 17% of German voters in favor of Eurobonds

2012-07-04

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2012-07-04

  Voters are strongly against many other European utopias The newest poll of the Forsa institute, here in the left-wing Stern and the conservative Welt, shows that Germans are strongly against Eurobonds and many more European “utopias”, as we called it. The German chancellor Angela Merkel recently connected her life with the fulfillment of the voters wish to …

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Wolfgang Münchau, FT: Merkel was the winner of the Euro summit

2012-07-02

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2012-07-02

Wolfgang Munchau
  Wolfgang Münchau endorsed many of our arguments Wolfgang Münchau, Financial Times, has endorsed many of our arguments of our Friday's opinion  about the Euro summit where we stated that there was nothing really new. Münchau even claims that "The real victor in Brussels was Merkel."

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At the Euro summit there was nothing really new. What was the party about ?

2012-06-29

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2012-06-29

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At the euro summit today there was essentially nothing what was really surprising. We wonder what markets are so excited about.

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Spread Swiss Eidgenossen vs. German Bund to see further gains

2012-06-29

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2012-06-29

Germany Swiss Spread
The spread between the Swiss government Eidgenossen bond against the Germany 10yrs. Bund will see further gain in the future, after the Euro summit opened the door for ESM direct financing of banks.   Differences between EFSF and ESM explained

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Merkel: ‘No Eurobonds as Long as I Live’, Hollande: ‘Eurobonds will take up to 10 years’

2012-06-27

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2012-06-27

Eurobonds
  German chancellor Angela Merkel today confirmed the content of our article that Eurobonds are pure utopia. She vows  "No Eurobonds as Long as I Live".

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Can Merkel stop the Eurobonds ? German “Der Focus” on Eurobonds

2012-06-24

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2012-06-24

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  The German "Der Focus",one of the most successful weekly magazines, titles "Can Merkel stop the Eurobonds ?" Der Focus claims that Eurobonds have the following issues:

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The other risk for the SNB: Will German Bund yields double ?

2012-06-20

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2012-06-20

10 yrs. Bunds
In the latest post we started discussing the implications of a German euro exit for the Swiss National Bank, this time we will look on another risk: The rising German Bund yields.

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