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P. Stephens (Financial Times): Europe says goodbye to solidarity

prin pe 25 februarie 2012 în Economie europeana


Some words are the property of continental Europeans. You do not hear many Brits or Americans talking about “solidarity”. The expression belongs to the soggy (to Anglo-Saxon minds) consensualism of social market capitalism and to prophets of European unity. What’s happened lately is that solidarity has dissolved. This explains why the euro, and the European […]

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F. Norris: Riots, Good Credit and Stocks

prin pe 14 august 2011 în Economie globala


After a week of wild swings, stock markets ended with relatively mild moves for the week, proving there was no need to come home from vacation just because there was a little volatility. Here are the weekly changes for leading indexes in the United States and the largest countries in Europe and Asia, ranked by price change […]

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

prin pe 6 august 2011 în Economie europeana


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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Financial Times: Dual debt crises: The abyss that awaits

prin pe 16 iulie 2011 în Economie europeana, Economie globala


A week ago last Thursday, global equity markets were sitting pretty, secure in the expectation of good US employment figures and some breathing space in the European sovereign debt saga. Now, that confidence has disappeared. In its place, investors see contagion gripping the eurozone, renewed weakness in the American economy and the looming possibility that […]

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