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Is the price stability target of the ECB at risk?

admin_money_matters November 18, 2013 0 Comment

Get me right. I am not fearing, for the time being, that inflation will move above the 2.0...
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…and what about the other side of the pond?

admin_money_matters November 12, 2013 0 Comment

While on this side of the Atlantic the ECB was reacting more quickly than expected to the much...
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Forget the € and demand management!

admin_money_matters October 30, 2013 0 Comment

The title of this post is a bit exaggerated, yet it helps stressing the gist of the point...
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Who said what on the euro?

admin_money_matters October 17, 2013 2 Comments

The euro and Nobel prizes The contemporaneous award of the Economics Nobel prize to Eugen Fama and...
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Don´t supply more when there is no demand!

admin_money_matters October 08, 2013 0 Comment

Over the last few weeks the words uttered by the ECB President, first in front of the European Parliament...
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East-West tensions
There is a well-known saying “it never rains but it pours”, meaning that misfortunes or difficult situations tend to follow each other in rapid succession and pile up on one. Right at the moment, the saying does seem to be a fair description of how the world feels, with multiple crises facing us all. Continue […]
John Nugée
The outlook for the UK economy
The Bank of England's latest economic assessment, which accompanied its latest rate rise last week, was uncompromisingly gloomy. What lies behind this extreme negativity, and is the Bank reacting solely to the economic situation or with one eye on the political scene as well? Continue reading
John Nugée
Whither Inflation? Whether Recession?
With the ECB finally following the lead given by the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve and raising their interest rates last week, all the major western central banks (except the Bank of Japan, whose situation is slightly different) are now firmly in inflation-fighting mode. And it is therefore timely to ask what the […]
John Nugée