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Euro-Skepticism was Thatcher’s Most Relevant Legacy; Had Europe Only Listened Margaret Thatcher, former UK prime minister died on Monday.
Michael Pettis Interview with Lauren Lyster: Decade of Slower Growth for China Here is an interview of Michael Pettis by Lauren Lyster from the Wine Country Conference. Pettis says China faces a decade of slower growth
Tweet My general view both in general and as a policymaker in my small local-office pond is that a widely held (few expert dissenters) and strongly held (high confidence) consensus position might as well be a fact as far as the policymaking is concerned . A contradictory study is just that, a study. If it turns out to be accurate, then the consensus will eventually fracture soon enough and create problems for policymakers, but there’s no need or even a rational way for policymaking to jump the gun
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View article: Germany’s Net Foreign Assets Exceed €1 Trillion; 10 Compete Failures of the Eurozone
See the original article here: EU Warns Portugal on Austerity Measures; Portugal Faces Fresh Spending Cuts; Second Bailout Coming Up
Portugal’s Constitutional Court has ruled several key articles of the 2013 state budget unconstitutional.
First consider Underwater: The Netherlands Falls Prey to Economic Crisis . The Netherlands, Berlin’s most important ally in pushing for greater budgetary discipline in Europe, has fallen into an economic crisis itself
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