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Lucian Isar (VoxPublica): Ce ar trebui sa faca d. Isărescu dacă ar fi Guvernator al BNR


D. Isarescu, daca ar fi Guvernator al BNR printre alte preocupari si aspiratii, ar trebui sa faca urmatoarele (in realitate ar fi trebuit deja sa le fi facut): 1) Sa reduca rezervele minime obligatorii atat la lei precum si la valuta astfel incat economia sa poata sa fie creditata pe termen lung, mai mult in […]

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WSJ: G-20 Looks to Aid Italy


CANNES, France—While Greece was consumed by political turmoil, leaders of the Group of 20 industrial and developing countries on Thursday were scrambling to insulate the next most vulnerable economy: Italy. Italy has become a prime concern of the Cannes summit because the U.S., China and other G-20 members are now worried that Europeans may fail […]

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WSJ: Franco-German Proposal Disappoints. Sarkozy and Merkel Propose Euro-Zone Council for Better Governance


PARIS—The plan by France and Germany to create a head of the euro zone to shore up economic governance of the monetary union stopped short of more fundamental steps toward refashioning the area into a federal entity that would issue its own debt, disappointing investors hungry for a more radical solution to the euro-zone crisis. […]

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Cinci zile de la datorie la dezastru. Cronologia unei retrogradări istorice, văzută de Financial Times


Sediul agenţiei de rating Standard&Poor’s din New York Ziarul Financial Times a trecut în revistă principalele evenimente care s-au succedat săptămâna aceasta, culminând cu retrogradarea istorică a ratingului Statelor Unite.  Luni, 1 august Preşedintele Statelor Unite, Barack Obama, spera că va da un impuls pozitiv economiei după ce se va întelege cu republicanii în privinţa […]

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WSJ: For Euro Zone, Firing All Guns Could Prove Costly


Europe has dramatically scaled up its efforts to stanch its sovereign-debt crisis since the start of last year, but to no apparent avail as the turmoil threatened this week to overwhelm Spain and Italy. Yet, governments still have some unused weapons in their armory—though the political cost of firing them will be high. As the common […]

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D. ENRICH & C. MOLLENKAMP: Signs of Stress on the Rise Across Europe


The European sovereign-debt crisis placed new strains on the Continent’s banks on Wednesday amid signs that some lenders are finding it harder and more expensive to fund themselves. The cash crunch for some European Union banks underscores the challenges that central bankers and regulators face in preventing the bloc’s economic and debt problems from seeping […]

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