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Something funny’s happening in NIRP land: long-term yields are rising, negative yields are turning positive, and investors are getting punished for having handed their brains to central banks. By Wolf Richter for WOLF … Read more
Merkel und Maas fliegen zum Krisentreffen mit Putin www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/iran-krise-eu-aussenminister-berufen-sondertreffen-ein-16567649.html Merkel to Meet Putin in Moscow for Talks on Mideast Crises www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/06/world/europe/ap-eu-germany-russia.html Bundeswehr bereitet sich auf raschen Rückzug aus dem Irak … Read more
Negative Rates Are Starting to Worry ECB Officials (Bloomberg) — Five weeks since Mario Draghi retired from running the European Central Bank, finding an outright fan of his legacy … Read more
Watch till the end. Angela Merkel says: we have to take away your freedom of speech, or else society won’t be free. pic.twitter.com/Y3qROvDQXg — Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) November 28, … Read more
via DW: Nearly a quarter of German companies operating in China are planning to relocate all or part of their business out of the Asian country, according to a study released … Read more
Just when you think that things cannot get more Orwellian or Dystopian, these stories come along! mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1XF1VC www.ledgerinsights.com/association-of-german-banks-digital-euro/ ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/02/21/1550732404000/Europe-s–1-trillion-tax-gap/ financialtransparency.org/the-eu-tax-gap-new-evidence-shows-there-is-e1-trillion-of-lost-revenue-to-target-to-save-our-futures-from-despair/ www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2012/02/29/the-eu-tax-gap-new-evidence-shows-there-is-e1-trillion-of-lost-revenue-to-target-to-save-our-futures-from-despair/ www.euronews.com/2013/05/21/web-as-europe-faces-tax-evasion-worth-1-trillion-euro-meps-debate-solutions-ahe www.macrovoices.com/bb
by Natura Naturans High Electricity Costs, Hostile Environmental Activism, Uncertainty Now Crippling German Economy …Outlook Bleak German online weekly FOCUS writes Germany is turning into “Europe’s economic sick man” – due … Read more
Draghi faced unprecedented #ECB revolt as German, French, Dutch governors resisted QE. Those 3 governors alone represent half of Eurozone GDP. Other dissenters incl governors from Austria, Estonia, as well … Read more
The big picture: The state elections are being viewed as a crucial test for Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (AKK), the hand-picked successor to Merkel. A series of missteps have Germans — including some … Read more
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-29/german-unemployment-jump-adds-to-pressure-for-fiscal-stimulus?srnd=premium The number of people out of work increased by 4,000 to 2.29 million in August, the fourth straight month that joblessness failed to drop after six years of almost … Read more
by JealousEntrepreneur Not the US, but this is a worsening sign for a global economic slowdown as the 3rd biggest exporter in the world is on the brink of a … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: During the WEC I came to understand Real Estate will crash. Then when looking at Socrates, it shows real estate indices, however I do not recognise these … Read more
… on Wednesday Germany reported that its economy appears to have finally hit major pothole as German unemployment unexpectedly surged for the first time in almost two years as the economic … Read more
Austrian politics has been rocked by “Ibiza-gate” allegations that the country’s vice chancellor was discussing the possibility of a foreign citizen investing into a local newspaper in exchange for favourable … Read more
Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, “Are you crazy?” Yet that’s essentially what Amazon has been doing … Read more
The AFD, or Alternative For Deutschland(Alternative for Germany), is on course for huge election win in country’s east in bombshell vote that could force Merkel out early. This is very … Read more