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You may have read about budget cuts in Spain. Where do they fall? Over at nada es gratis, a great econ blog (in Spanish), FLORENTINO FELGUE...

can drive you insane...via  BBC : Spain's jobless level hits record 4.75 million Continue reading the main story The number of Spanish j...

In Aristophanes' Lystrata , the women end a war by withholding sexual favors. High-end Spanish hookers are now using the same idea, expl...

via Euronews Trouble is - if a country descends into anarchy, the best plans for reform don't help you much. The bond market today defin...

on Bavarian radio [in German].

In August, I gave an interview to Der Spiegel , saying that the Euro can't last another 5 years in its current form. At the time, many p...

someone is thinking about the mountain of unrecognized losses in Spanish banks due to bad real estate deals, and the need to recapitalize. B...

The latest Euro summit was meant to build a firewall around Greece, and to isolate it from the other weaker members of the Eurozone. One wee...

Larry Summers today wrote an interesting piece for Reuters. His first point - worth considering - is that the German obsession with wrappin...

what is going on in the Spanish economy, read Edward Hugh [long post].

How much economics can you get out of a single graph? Here's is my entry: The Economist has a chart for salary expectations of graduates...

Today, there are demonstrations in Barcelona and across Spain against "the political class, the crisis, and the fact that people who l...

These days, it is easy to remember why economics used to be known as the "dismal science". The EU finance ministers are meeting to...

goes live over at IDEALISTA . What is a flat or house worth? Whatever the value of having a roof over your head is... discounted to the pres...

Spain is much in the headlines these days. Markets worry about the PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) not being able to meet their ...