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Euro area annual inflation up to 0.4%

05/08/2020(0)
In July 2020, a month in which COVID-19 containment measures continued to be lifted, Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 0.4%, up from 0.3% in June according ... Read More
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The Eurozone’s financial disintegration

31/07/2020(0)
Introduction The Euro Crisis Monitor (above) shows the increasing imbalances in the TARGET2 settlement system between all its members: the ECB (itself with a €145bn deficit) and the national ... Read More
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29% of Europeans can’t afford a week’s holiday

29/07/2020(0)
In 2019, 29% of residents of EU Member States aged 16 or over were unable to afford paying for an annual one-week holiday away from home. This share has ... Read More
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The pound’s future in a dollar collapse

28/07/2020(0)
  In recent articles for Goldmoney I have pointed out the dollar’s vulnerability to a final collapse in its purchasing power. This article focuses on the factors that will ... Read More
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Explaining the credit cycle

24/07/2020(0)
  This article summarises why the credit cycle leads to alternate booms and slumps. It is only with this in mind that they can be properly understood as current ... Read More
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Europe Bails Out Its Failed States with “Common” (i.e., German) Bonds

22/07/2020(0)
  The “European Project” was designed with something like the current crisis in mind. The adoption of a common currency was just the first, politically easiest, step in a ... Read More
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EU Commission published an evaluation report on the GDPR

13/07/2020(0)
Just over two years after its entry into application, the European Commission published an evaluation report on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The report shows the GDPR has ... Read More
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The new deal is a bad old deal

10/07/2020(0)
So far, the current economic situation, together with the response by major governments, compares with the run-in to the depression of the 1930s. Yet to come in the repetitious ... Read More
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Prices are going to rise — and fast!

07/07/2020(0)
  With stockmarkets barely ruffled, few are thinking beyond the very short-term and they are mostly guessing anyway. Other than possibly the very short-term as we emerge from lockdowns, ... Read More
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Wirecard files for insolvency after ex-CEO arrested in $2 billion scandal

25/06/2020(0)
Wirecard has filed for insolvency, just days after a $2 billion accounting scandal at the company burst into the open, crashing its stock and leading to the arrest of ... Read More
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