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Italian Technocrat Fears Uprisings And Protests In Italy

Italian Technocrat Fears Uprisings And Protests In Italy Once Austerity Measures Begin To Bite Unelected technocratic Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has made a plea for more “help” before convening talks in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel today, warning that his austerity measures could trigger anti-European protests in Italy without signs of progress. Monti […]

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USA Consumer Credit Reaches Ten Year High

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USA Consumer Credit Reaches Ten Year High As Savings Rate Continues To Languish The news released yesterday that USA citizens had gorged on a credit binge (the likes of which had not been seen for ten years) took many market commentators and publishers by surprise. Whilst there is evidence that a degree of optimism is

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Greeks Use Bailout Cash To Buy Military Hardware

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We covered how the austerity measures are beginning to bite hard in Greece during our tale of two cities forex market commentary of last week. The youth unemployment problem is dire, adoption and care agencies are at breaking point as desperate families are giving up their children for adoption but these charities (having had their

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The French Are Saving In Euros, Whilst Britons Still Believe In Their Pension System, Both Beliefs Are Wrong

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Despite the Eurozone debacle the French are showing remarkable trust in the system, their banks and our beleaguered, battered and bruised single Currency. With one of the lowest personal debt ratios in the Eurozone, partly as a consequence of the French not over indulging in the sub prime mortgage debt binge that Brits gorged on

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Reasons To Be Cheerful Parts 1-2-3

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The euro has strengthened versus the dollar for the first time in four days of trading due to the leaders of Germany and France meeting today. The euro had earlier fallen to an 11-year low versus the yen ahead of a report today that economists thought would show industrial production in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy,

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So The Euro Disappears, What Happens Next?

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You know that scene in the film Groundhog Day, when Bill Murray is woken up by his alarm clock to find it’s the same old re-cycled pattern to his day, day after day? I really need to change radio stations for our alarm clock, every weekday morning I’m woken up at 6:45 am by the

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IMF Chief Predicts Euro To Survive

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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Friday at a gathering in Pretoria South Africa that she didn’t think 2012 would be “the end of the euro currency” despite the debt crisis in the euro zone. [quote] Will 2012 be the end of the euro? My answer is, I don’t think so. The

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A Tale Of Two Austerity Cities, Athens And Dublin

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They are not too dissimilar in economic terms, Ireland is ranked as 48th on a global scale and Greece is ranked as 37th. The GDP per capita of Greeks is $27,875 (nominal, 2011 est.) and the GDP per capita of the Irish is $37,700 (estimate 2009-2010). There is one stark difference, the ease of doing

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The Reality Of Harsh Austerity Measures As Illustrated By Eurozone Member Ireland

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The impact of austerity measures is hitting hard in Ireland. Arguably the first major developed economy to suffer at the hands of the ‘Austerical’ technocratic impositions of the EU and IMF the country is now teetering on the edge of a ‘technical recession’ although to argue the technicalities of such a situation seems irrelevant given

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The Ballad Of Jed Clampett – The USA Era Of 'Oil Innocence' Is Over

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The Ballad Of Jed Clampett “Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed, Then one day he was shootin’ at some food, And up through the ground came a bubblin’ crude. Oil that is. Black gold. Texas tea…” The Beverly Hillbillies series starts with

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