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BUSINESS
How to ward off the next recession
By Jean Pisani-Ferry Structural shifts in the automobile industry, miserable productivity gains in advanced economies, shrinking spare capacity, and the…
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BUSINESS
Why Europe needs a change of mind-set to fend off the risks of recession
By Guntram Wolff For European finance ministers, the situation represents a new challenge. When major recessions happened in the past,…
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AMERICAS
The weak U.S. dollar: The good and the bad
By Arthur S. Guarino A weak U.S. dollar can have good and bad implications. But the reasons behind a weak dollar…
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BUSINESS
The Eurozone needs less heterogeneity
By André Sapir Misalignments of real exchange rates continue to be the most visible and painful symptom of asymmetric shocks within…
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BUSINESS
Greeks say ‘NO’ to an open laboratory for violation of human rights
By Kavaljit Singh The Greek debt crisis saga continues with no resolution in sight. As expected, the European leaders rejected…
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EUROPE
Europe – Syriza-ize or Syria-nize
By Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic A freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings (yet again, for the sixth year in a…
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EUROPE
Choices after the Greferendum
By Zsolt Darvas and Guntram Wolff Is there a hard budget constraint option while keeping Greece inside the euro area? On Sunday,…
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BUSINESS
Cenk Uygur slams Greece’s ‘dumbass’ creditors for irresponsibly loaning Greece money
By The Young Turks Network Greece voted against austerity measures and a bail out on Sunday. But the consequences aren’t clear…
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AMERICAS
Sorry… Greece and Puerto Rico do not qualify for sovereign Ponzi schemes!
By Ben Tanosborn No; the Ponzi scheme has not been decriminalized for individuals, only for Nation-States and on occasion for…
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BUSINESS
The IMF’s big Greek mistake
By Ashoka Mody The Greek government’s mounting financial woes are leading it to contemplate the previously unthinkable: defaulting on a loan…
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