September 22, 2014
Spain Mandates Public Companies "Stop the Bleeding" No More Layoffs
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Excerpt from: Spain Mandates Public Companies "Stop the Bleeding" No More Layoffs
In a foolish as well as never-ending attempt to prevent price deflation and revive growth, the ECB Urges Berlin to Cut Taxes and Spend . Berlin has hit back at calls from a top European Central Bank official urging Germany to spend more to help the eurozone escape from its economic malaise.
Read this article: We don’t know everything, but we know enough!
See APS policy review "The members of the Subcommittee are: Steven Koonin (chair), Phillip Coyle, Scott Kemp, Tim Meyer, Robert Rosner and Susan Seestrom."(That was not in WSJ, but I suspect will appear, given some of the other APS history below.)Arthur mentioned that. People might explore that, and check out the bios of those who attended the workshop, several of whom are quite famous for uncertainty.I’m an APS (and APS GPC ) member, and I certainly have not yet seen a statement put up for review
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Today the Financial Times reports ECB’s Lending Spree Short of Expectations . The European Central Bank’s first offer of cheap four-year loans has fallen short of expectations, dealing a blow to president Mario Draghi’s hope of sustaining the eurozone’s ailing economy by expanding the central bank’s balance sheet. Banks borrowed €82.6bn through the first of the ECB’s Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations, or TLTROs, one of policy makers’ big ideas to revive the currency area’s recovery.
Counting Sheep: French Government Faces Second No Confidence Vote in Six Months Second No Confidence Vote in Six Months In spite of the fact the Socialist party holds a majority of just 1 in the 577-seat lower house, French prime minister Manual Valls hopes to stabilize things with a Second No Confidence Vote in Six Months . Mr Valls could see a narrowing of his majority compared with the vote when he was first appointed prime minister at the end of March after a big socialist loss in local elections. Then he won by a margin of 306 votes to 239 against, with 26 abstentions.“Valls is politically and economically archaic
Bloomberg reports Scots Independence Campaign Nears Climax as Polls Diverge . Activists were out in force across Scotland during the final weekend before the Sept. 18 ballot that might trigger the breakup of the union after more than three centuries.