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Pumping more money into banks but leaving them unregulated doesn’t help

March 3, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

On Thursday 25 February, this newspaper concluded that “the other major central banks in Europe, China, Japan and elsewhere appear ready to fill the gap that the Fed plans to leave in the ‘money for nothin’ game”. This week’s developments completely justified this prediction. The immediate result is a new appreciation of the dollar with […]

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Can the next financial crisis be avoided?

February 15, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The descent of prices in the world capital markets continued almost unhindered this past week and only last Friday financial, oil and commodity values gained some limited grounds. Altogether however, the major stock markets have erased trillions off their capitalization since last June, when the dark clouds gathered above the Chinese mega-cities of Shanghai and […]

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EU to pay a dear price if the next crisis catches Eurozone stagnant and deflationary; dire statistics from Eurostat

January 11, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

Amidst the historically worst first week of a year since stock exchange records exist, the Eurozone economy remains stagnant and appears clearly unable to offer itself and the rest of the global economy a sigh of relief. All along the first week of the New Year Eurostat kept airing quite disappointing statistics for the Eurozone […]

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British Prime Minister Theresa May met the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani at 10 Downing Street on 20 April 2017. Credit: Jay Allen. Copyright: Crown Copyright, some rights reserved.

Sabine Lautenschläger (on the left). Member of the ECB’s Executive Board. Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. Annual banking supervision press conference – 27 March 2017. (ECB work, Some rights reserved).

Press conference by Dimitris Avramopoulos, Member of the EC, on migration Date: 12/07/2017 Location: Brussels – EC/Berlaymont © European Union , 2017 / Source: EC – Audiovisual Service Photo: Jennifer Jacquemart

8 July 2017. Hamburg, Germany. German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel in conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit. (Photo: Bundesregierung/Kugler).

Press statement by Pierre Moscovici, Member of the EC Date: 12/07/2017 Location: Brussels – EC/Berlaymont © European Union , 2017. Source: EC – Audiovisual Service. Photo: Jennifer Jacquemart

Jaroslaw Kaczyński (on the left), at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in one of his very rare visits to EU institutions. 31/03/2004. Copyright: © Communaut√©s europ√©ennes 2004 - EP.

Jean-Claude Juncker, Li Keqiang, Donald Tusk
Date: 02/06/2017
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Round table on Brexit: European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, 1st from the left, Martin Selmayr, his Head of cabinet, 2nd from the left, Tim Barrrow, British Permanent Representative to the European Union, 3rd from the left, and British Prime Minister Theresa May, 5th from the left. Date: 22/06/2017. Location: Brussels – Council/Europa. © European Union , 2017/ Source: EC – Audiovisual Service / Photo: Etienne Ansotte.

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