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Via translation from Les Echos please note a Sharp Rise in French Unemployment The number of Class A job seekers reached 3,626,500 in April. At this rate, the threshold of half a million more unemployed since the election of François Hollande will be reached this summer
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Reuters reports Bank of Japan, more confident about recovery, quietly eyes stimulus exit . The Bank of Japan has begun shifting its focus from supporting growth to ways of phasing out its massive stimulus, taking first tentative steps towards a potentially momentous move for the world economy.
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Former Bundesbank Vice-President Recommends Gold, Says Current Economic System is "Pure Fiction" Anyone who is thinking clearly knows the economic system fostered by central banks is totally and completely out of control. Repetitive rounds of QE, competitive currency debasement, interest rates at zero, and sponsorship of the internet bubble followed by the housing bubble, followed by the current stock market bubble is proof enough. So, what I am about to report is really nothing but common sense, except for the fact that it comes from an unusual place, where one does not normally hear such discussions