by Sam Wilkin | Feb 19, 2014 | Blog
Things in Europe do not seem to be going so well these days. The Eurozone crisis is a recent memory. European politicians bicker over bailouts or make reckless threats. Unemployment is high. The Swiss are voting out the immigrants and in many European countries...
by Sam Wilkin | Feb 13, 2014 | Blog
The differences in interpretation of the recent German Constitutional Court ruling on the legality of “bailouts” by the ECB have been extraordinary. In part this is understandable: the court, in effect, ruled that bailouts via OMT are illegal under German law, but...
by Sam Wilkin | Feb 12, 2014 | Blog
Speaking of brinksmanship, the passage of a bill to raise the US debt ceiling with no strings attached makes much more sense when viewed through a strategic lens. The standard view is that partisanship has rendered Washington dysfunctional, that the differences...
by Sam Wilkin | Feb 11, 2014 | Blog
Most economists have been too pessimistic about the Eurozone crisis. The famous names who forecast a Eurozone breakup – Martin Wolf, Niall Ferguson – were generally guilty of confusing “broken” with “cannot be fixed”. There were good reasons for this confusion....
by Sam Wilkin | Jan 19, 2014 | Video
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