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July 21, 2008

Culture

Wolfgang Munchau Proposes The EU Organise An IMF-type Rescue For Spain

by Edward Hugh

Well some times I agree with Wolfgang Munchau, and sometimes I don’t. This is one of the occasions when I do, especially the following passage which can be found in his Financial Times op-ed this morning:
“Some degree of competitive adjustment is probably needed but the huge scale of the shock that is unfolding in Spain [...]

July 20, 2008

Culture

Artemio Cruz Is Alive And Well, And Living In Spain

by Edward Hugh

“Look, Doctor, he’s just faking……. Even now in the hour of his death he has to trick us.”
The opening sentence: ‘There’s a long silence, and then I say …’ indicates the three functions of this book. It is an attempt to find a self through utterance, after a lifetime of non-communication; this was prompted by [...]

June 1, 2008

Culture

Rodolfo Chiquilicuatre and José Manuel González-Páramo: Here Comes The Spanish Banking Armada

by Edward Hugh

Last Monday morning when most of Spain’s citizens were busy watching YouTube videos or TV news coverage of Rodolfo Chiquilicuatre doing his bit of buffoonery at the Eurovision Song Contest, many readers of the English speaking financial press were hard at it peering into another video, the one of the Financial Times’ Ralph Atkins interviewing [...]

May 23, 2008

Culture

Will The Real Ukraine Central Bank Please Stand Up!

by Edward Hugh

Does anyone happen to know offhand the “official” dollar rate of the Ukrainian currency, the Hryvnia? I am asking this question since clearly over at the central bank they are having difficulty deciding at the moment, since - like the legendary character Hydra - they seem to be speaking with two “heads” at the same [...]

May 7, 2008

Economics and demography

Slovakia’s Euro Entry Bid Accepted

by Edward Hugh

Slovakia today won EU approval to adopt the euro on Jan. 1 2009, thus becoming the 16th member of the European single currency zone. The EU Commission announced today on its Web site that Slovakia had reduced both the fiscal deficit and inflation sufficiently to qualify. At the same time the [...]

April 23, 2008

Economics and demography

The French Economy - Acting As The Eurozone Buffer?

by Edward Hugh

What really strikes me about the slowdown we are currently seeing in the eurozone economies is not so much what we are seeing, but how we are seeing (or if you like interpreting) it. The core of the issue is to be found - as is ever the case - in the details. And [...]

April 22, 2008

Culture

Slovakia’s Euro Membership Bid - Update

by Edward Hugh

Maybe to many readers of this blog Slovakia’s application for membership of the eurozone may well not appear to be the political and economic event of the year. That rapid judgement may well turn out to be wrong. What is at issue here is the future course of the collective applications for zone membership of [...]

April 21, 2008

Culture

Slovakia’s Euro Membership Bid

by Edward Hugh

Slovakia has recently taken some important “baby steps” on its path towards future euro membership. In particular the government in Bratislava has now officially asked the European Central Bank and European Commission to assess whether or not it is now ready to adopt the currency on 1 January 2009.
The response of the European Commission [...]

April 13, 2008

Economics and demography

Is 2008 Make Or Break Year For Italy’s Economy?

by Edward Hugh

As Italians head to the polls this weekend in order to pick what will be their 62nd government in 65 years (in an election which is being held three years early to boot, due to the collapse of Romano Prodi’s outgoing administration) one odd detail seems to stand out and sum up the multitude of [...]

March 16, 2008

Economics and demography

Spain’s Economic and Financial Crisis Develops With The ECB Acting As “Pawnbroker of Last Resort.”

by Edward Hugh

My co-blogger on Global Economy Matters Manuel Alvarez in his post on last weekend’s Spanish election called it “Zapatero’s election to lose”, meaning by this that the opposition scarcely seemed credibly poised to win, and their best chance of victory rested on the possibility that Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero might somehow or [...]

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