Mathew D. Rose: The Ordeal of Angela Merkel
A chronicle of Angela Merkel’s rise and a catalogue of recent political mistakes which are putting her chancellorship at risk.
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Rebooting the Eurozone: Step 1 – Agreeing a Crisis Narrative
The Eurozone needs fixing, but it is impossible to agree upon the steps to be taken without agreement on what went wrong. This column introduces a new CEPR Policy Insight that presents a consensus-narrative of the causes of the EZ Crisis. It was authored by a dozen leading economists from across the spectrum. The consensus narrative is supported by a long and growing list of economists.
Read more...The Disaster of Greek Austerity – What Next?
More on the ground readings on the impact of austerity in Greece.
Read more...John Helmer: The Barbarians at the Gate of Civilization, but Which Empire is Falling?
Empire-booster-in-chief Niall Ferguson gets yet another well-deserved shellacking, this time on how he falsifies the record in drawing lessons from Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Read more...The TPP is a Multi-Dimensional Simultaneous Equation
How Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s remarks to the DIet about the TPP reveal a lot about the aims of this deal and its vulnerabilities.
Read more...The GXG Markets Fallout (II): Editwars and FOIA fights
GXG Markets is gone but the dirty dealings continue
Read more...Nina Eichacker: Lessons from Iceland’s Financial Crisis
A look at Iceland’s financial crisis, why it happened and what can be done to mitigate the potential for similar chaos in the future.
Read more...Will the Paris Attacks Herald the End of the Schengen Agreement?
The big thing I’ve learned since I hung up my keyboard as a generalist blogger is to, as much as possible, stay in my lane. I share everyone’s horror at the Paris attacks, and like everyone else have my own thoughts, however unformed, on the best way forward. But I make no pretensions to deep insight on international terrorism and a Middle East that has confounded just about every so-called expert for as long as I’ve been alive. So I’d rather just try to keep up with developments (and you’ll see more of that in the Links).
But there is something, first brought to my attention by Chris Hayes, on which I may be able to comment intelligently. Details are a little murky, but it appears France is seeking some wiggle room on the Schengen agreement.
Read more...Ilargi: 9/11, 3/11, 7/7, 11/13; New York, Madrid, London, Paris
Better to wait a day before writing, after a night like that. What does one write after such a night anyway? And why write anything at all if you can be dead sure to always antagonize some one on some side of some spectrum, ideological or not, no matter what you write, unless you tag some safe official line, and even then, or especially then?
Read more...Paris Attack Round-up and Open Thread
The chain of events in Paris, strategy and tactics of the attackers, history of ISIS and origins of “radical islam”, French particularities, media critique, Beltway meltdown and warmongering.
Read more...The Disaster of Greek Austerity
Data and on the ground reports on the high cost of Greek austerity.
Read more...How Ireland Became an Offshore Financial Center
Offshore financial centres are a political and economic phenomenon that goes far beyond secrecy, and Ireland makes a remarkable case study.
Read more...John Helmer: Australian and Dutch Officials Lose Control on MH17
Now government officials and police are disagreeing with each other…
Read more...Greece and Creditors at Loggerheads Again; Troika Wants More Foreclosures
uropean creditors want to extract more blood from a stone, in this case Greece.
Read more...Wait: Maybe Europeans are as Rich as Americans
Many Europeans argue that when you adjust nominally higher American incomes for how much we spend from our own pockets on healthcare plus the longer hours we work, we aren’t better off.
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