The Financial Times helps to resurrect an idea that CentreForum was cautiously plugging a year back. A common eurozone bond: would provide more accessibility to the markets, help stabilise the continent’s economies and, most importantly, lower the cost of funding, which in turn would ease the burden on taxpayers.Such a bond would create the scope [...]
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13 May
Now is not a time for uber-German monetary policy
The FT reports on the ECB’s seeming conversion to QE: Backlash stirs in Frankfurt. “Germans are clear about the job of a central banker: to fight inflation, and nothing else … The conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the turnaround – announced at 3:15am on Monday after a late-night meeting of European finance ministers – as [...]
11 May
Game changing Bazooka or the biggest dose of Moral Hazard ever?
Believe it or not, I have been reading up on the Greek/European/World scenario as a way of taking my mind off fingernail-destroying horsetrading over here in Westminster. Yes, those perfidious Europeans used the cover of a protracted UK negotiation over AV Plus to sneak out a 750bn Euro guarantee fund. Several points are worth making, [...]
20 Nov
Extraordinary fact . . . about Catherine Ashton (via Schneider Home)
James Schneider’s post amazingly shows that people are trying to connect the shennanigans of EU honcho-appointment with Jewish conspiracies.
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