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Links: 2010-02-12 – European recovery falters and mortgage problems
Folks, if I can get out of here , I will. I need the sun and that relaxation that only Mexico can provide. So expect light posting next week. Meanwhile, DC expects yet more snow on Monday (ha ha ha – Schadenfreude – ha…
The Italian economy contracts again in Q4 2009
Well, it isn’t only my German economy Q4 call, or my Japanese economy one which look OK right now, this Italian one also now seems very much to the point. In fact, as I suspected it might, the Italian economy went back into contraction…
Chart Wars
This post was originally published at A Fistful of Euros. A new kind of battle is going on out there at the moment. In what must surely be a new twist to the old dialectic of blow against blow argument, a combination of the internet age…
Fiscal emergency in New Jersey harbinger of state cuts
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie declared a “fiscal emergency” for the state of New Jersey today, announcing massive cuts to schools and hospitals. The issue is less the budget for this year, which itself shows a deficit of $2.2…
Estonia’s economy contracts by ‘only’ 9.4% in Q4 2009
This post was originally published at A Fistful of Euros. Hard on the heels of yesterday’s Latvian GDP numbers we now have news that Estonia’s economy shrank at the slowest annual pace in a year at the end of 2009 as a modest recovery in…
Greece: Statement by the Heads of State or Government of the European Union
Below is the text of the brief EU statement on Greece debt crisis. All euro area members must conduct sound national policies in line with the agreed rules. They have a shared responsibility for the economic and financial stability in…
Obama ‘agnostic’ about tax increases on middle class
This comes via BusinessWeek. I imagine it is part of the much anticipated interview in which Obama said bank executives making millions "is part of the free-market system”. President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising…
A Way Out (?)
The following is a post by Marc Chandler, head of Brown Brother Harriman’s Currency Strategy Team. For more of BBH’s currency views, visit the website here. We have argued that the EU faces a horrible dilemma. One horn is the moral…
Jobless claims fall markedly
The past week saw a huge fall in the number of persons making an initial filing for jobless claims. The U.S. Department of Labor reported: In the week ending Feb. 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 440,000,…
Links: 2010-02-11 – Greece, snow’s effect on jobs report and more
The latest on Greece, according to Le Figaro in France, is that the EU will announce an agreement on support for Greece. In the article, Hermann van Rompuy stresses that Greece did not ask for 'financial aide,' whatever that means. It…