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Hollande Announces 20 "Confidence Shock" Measures to Support Home Building
March 22, 2013 0

Hollande Announces 20 "Confidence Shock" Measures to Support Home Building

By News Desk

Sticking with his economically insane campaign promise to construct 500,000 new homes in 2013, Hollande Announces 20 Measures to Support Home Building . Advocating a “confidence shock” to revive the building “against the Emergency Economic, social and environmental” the head of state has shown its desire to remove “all obstacles to construction”, while there was about 340,000 starts of new homes in 2012, below the target of 500,000.

Le Monde Headline "No, France is Not Bankrupt"
March 21, 2013 0

Le Monde Headline "No, France is Not Bankrupt"

By News Desk

Le Monde Headline "No, France is Not Bankrupt" This amusing headline story by Bruno Moschetto, a professor of economics at the University of Paris in the French newspaper Le Monde has me laughing out loud this morning: " No, France is Not Bankrupt " No, France is not bankrupt …

Views from "Out of This World" (a Non-Economic Diversion)
March 20, 2013 0

Views from "Out of This World" (a Non-Economic Diversion)

By News Desk

If you need a break from money supply, jobs, Cyprus, France, Europe in general, or housing (who doesn’t) I have a wonderful visual diversion that is literally “out of this world”. You can Watch the Aurora Borealis from an International Space Station that captures otherworldly famous lights.

Cypriot Lawmakers Overwhelmingly Reject EU Demands; What’s Next?
March 20, 2013 0

Cypriot Lawmakers Overwhelmingly Reject EU Demands; What’s Next?

By News Desk

From the library of genuine news, Reuters reports Cyprus parliament rejects deposit tax for bailout . Cypriot lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected a deeply unpopular tax on bank deposits on Tuesday, throwing into doubt an international bailout for the troubled euro zone member needed to avert default and a banking collapse

EU Blinks Already? Staged Vote? Cyprus Finance Minister Proposes Deal with Russia; Will That Fly?
March 20, 2013 0

EU Blinks Already? Staged Vote? Cyprus Finance Minister Proposes Deal with Russia; Will That Fly?

By News Desk

Staged Vote? In spite of the 1-Not Present, 36-No, 19-abstentions vote in the Cypriot parliament, one really has to wonder if this was a staged vote to show solidarity with Cypriot citizens, with some sort of face-saving deal already approved for tomorrow (in which the Cypriot parliament votes yes by a slim majority in return for minor concessions from the ECB and Germany). In short, it is unclear if we really know what is happening in the Cypriot parliament.