Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Student Guest Contribution: The EU Proposal for a Tobin Tax

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As part of the requirements for the ITFD master, our students write a policy memo. Instead of looking at an issue analytically, we ask them ...
Saturday, 14 April 2012

My Inet Lecture in Berlin

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... due to family reasons, this must have been the shortest trip I ever took, but with 1,600 + hits on youtube on day one, it seems to have ...
Monday, 9 April 2012

"What has to be said" - Germany's leading Waffen-SS poet lectures Israel on its right to get nuked - special edition

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Günter Grass, German novelist and poet and a Nobel Laureate, is causing a stir with his poem "What has to be said." You can see hi...
Sunday, 8 April 2012

Austerity and Confidence

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Brad Delong has written an excellent VOX piece containing some home truths on austerity, together with a review of the latest writings by Co...

Greece's money supply is

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evaporating at a very high rate. The usually excellent Sober Look blog dissects the paradox of the BOG's growing balance sheet on the o...
Friday, 6 April 2012

What's being cut in Spain?

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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...
Thursday, 5 April 2012

Suicide in Athens - Remember what touched off the revolution in Tunisia?

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That's right, a very public suicide. Mohamed Bouazizi burned himself in December 2010; less than a month later, President Zine El Abidi...