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5 September 2011Trichet Urges Italy to Speed Up Austerity Plan
BY Gabriele Parussini, Sabrina Cohen
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet on Saturday urged Italy to quickly agree on and push for approval of economic measures aimed at cutting the country's budget deficit and Tagged Under austerity plan , bonds , ecb , EU , europe , european central bank |
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19 November 2011Brink think
BY The Economist
When Mario Draghi took over as president of the European Central Bank at the beginning of this month, it was felt that he had to prove his credentials in Germany. That task is made harder by calls Tagged Under Bundesbank , european central bank , European Recesssion , germany , Italy , Jens Weidmann , Mario Draghi |
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20 November 2011Boring cruel romantics
BY Paul Krugman
There’s a word I keep hearing lately: “technocrat.” Sometimes it’s used as a term of scorn — the creators of the euro, we’re told, were technocrats who failed to take human and cultural factors Tagged Under euro , Euro crisis , european central bank , technocrats |
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21 November 2011The eurozone and the US: A tale of two currency zones
BY Philip Whyte
Europeans think it is all very unfair. They point out that, in aggregate, the eurozone is in no worse an economic position than the US: its public finances are in better shape than the US’s, and Tagged Under banking , decentralisation , decentralization , dollar , ecb , euro , europe , european central bank , FED , Finance , GDP , U.S Federal Reserve , United States |
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27 November 2011Should the Fed save Europe from disaster?
BY Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Unless Germany agrees to the full mobilization of the European Central Bank very fast, the eurozone will spiral out of control. As The Economist put it, “The risk that the currency disintegrates Tagged Under ecb , EU , euro , europe , european central bank , Eurozone , federal reserve , germany , interbank lending , Italy , recession , U.S Federal Reserve , United States , US |
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29 November 2011'Germany as isolated on Euro as US was on Iraq'
BY David Crossland
Market participants and EU politicians are starting to sound more apocalyptic in their warnings about the euro crisis as yet another make-or-break summit, on Dec. 8 and 9, draws near. Meanwhile Tagged Under crisis , ecb , euro , europe , european central bank , Eurozone , germany |
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13 March 2012Eurozone policy-makers place a big bet
BY Simon Tilford
Have eurozone policy-makers finally managed to lance the boil? They can certainly point to lower borrowing costs in Italy and Spain as evidence of stabilisation. Many of them argue that this Tagged Under austerity , economic reforms , european central bank , Eurozone , Spain |