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Financial Times writer Wolfgang Münchau says Germany’s Constitutional Court has Strengthened the Eurosceptics . When the first headlines came out on Friday morning, it looked as if the German constitutional court had caved in. It decided to pass the case against Mario Draghi’s “whatever-it-takes†bond-buying programme to the European Court of Justice.
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Via translation from a Les Echos interview, Montebourg complains "We Must Bring Down the Value of the Euro" . LE : What is your view on the level of the euro? AM : As Minister of Industry, I believe that the euro has become problematic in the eyes of all our businesses
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Goldman Sachs CEO says China Growth to Have ‘Huge Consequences’ Globally Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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Wall Street "Populism" Tramples Thailand’s Poor And how to pick them back up…Â February 10, 2014 ( ATN ) -The West has praised Thaksin Shinawatra and his "populist" policies for years as an example of very best of modern progressive principles in practice. Cheap loans, free computers, and rice subsidies were hailed as democracy in action by the Western media – and those who questioned the unsustainable, corruption and scandal fraught policies were swiftly condemned as "elitists" who rejected equality. The goal of these policies were never to lift up the poor, but rather install Thaksin Shinawatra into power long enough to uproot Thailand’s indigenous institutions and open the nation up to foreign corporate-financier and geopolitical exploitation
