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Read more...Italy has taken a step towards issuing a new currency in the form of tax credits. Will it make it more money-like by making it more tradable?
Read more...Gaming out possible moves by Spain if Catalonia proceeds with its secession plan.
Read more...Despite staging large-scale protests on Monday, Catalonia just revealed it is holding a weak set of cards in it secession efforts.
Read more...Short term, Catalonia and Madrid are at loggerheads. The next phase is likely an escalation of violence as neither side backs down. ,
Read more...The government in Madrid takes even more aggressive moves to shut down an independence referendum in Catalonia already deemed to be illegal.
Read more...Why the EU has done better on job creation than generally recognized, while US employment is exaggerated.
Read more...Wolfgang Schäuble’s legacy as German finance minister lives on, and not in a good way.
Read more...Yves here. Neither side appears willing to back down in the battle of wills over the Catalonia independence vote set for this Sunday, October 1. The English language press has described how the Spanish government has declared the election to be illegal and Mariano Rajoy’s government has moved to try to shut it down, for […]
Read more...Madrid’s crackdown is increasing support for independence in Catalonia among those who previously had little interest in such an outcome.
Read more...A case study of how basic, critically important Brexit issues like customs are being ignored by the Government, to the peril of the public.
Read more...Catalonia and the Spanish government are in a power struggle, with Madrid moving to strip Catalonia of its autonomy. What are the stakes?
Read more...The Brexit talks went from bad to worse in August.
Read more...As immigration becomes a political flash point, even hard core neoliberals like Emmanuel Macron are advocating restrictions.
Read more...ECB moves to lock up the money of unsuspecting depositors to prop up collapsing banks.
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