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A hiatus in publishing and some parting words for now
After many years of naive hope, I have finally come to accept that I am not, for the foreseeable future, going to be able to update this website. I have been meaning to finalise some thoughts on history, empires, macroeconomics, … Continue reading
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4 Upcoming Posts on Brexit: The Referendum Day Review
It has been a long time since I posted on this blog. Despite my best wishes, I keep getting busy with real work, so my quarterly, monthly and weekly post best hopes have all been in vain. Hopefully there’s still … Continue reading
Giving another shot at regular posting…
If you’ve been reading this website for any length of time (thank you if that’s the case), you’ll be aware that I have tried to experiment with a wide range of posting formats. Evidently, I struggle to find a balance … Continue reading
ECB Report 2015Q3 – Resilience in the face of localised instability
As was the case previously, this post is divided in 4 parts: First, I consider the ECB’s most orthodox policy tools, the policy rates. Secondly, I review the structure of the ECB’s balance sheet. This is then followed by a … Continue reading
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Tagged Asset Backed Security Purchasing Programme, CBPP, Deposit Facility, ECB, ECB assets, ECB Balance Sheet, ECB liabilities, ECB QE, Euro-zone Update, Marginal Lending Facility, MRO, PSPP, Public Sector Purchase Programme, QE in the Euro zone, QE in the Eurozone, SMP, Target2, Uncategorized and tagged ABSPP
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Considerations About the Greek Crisis: Bad Media, Amateur Greeks, Lazy Creditors and Geopolitical Fears
Watching the diplomatic and financial downwards spiral regarding the debt crisis in Greece, I am not particularly impressed or comforted by the skills of politicians or economists on both sides of the isle, or about the media. The inability of … Continue reading
ECB Report 2015Q2 – ECB Rates, Balance Sheet, QE & Tgt2 Balances Amid Greek Crisis
For reasons discussed previously, this post presents and briefly discusses a number of variables pertaining to the activity of the ECB from its inception until now. Particular focus is put on the more recent events of the last quarter and … Continue reading
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Tagged ABSPP, Asset Backed Security Purchasing Programme, CBPP, Deposit Facility, ECB, ECB assets, ECB Balance Sheet, ECB liabilities, ECB QE, Marginal Lending Facility, MRO, PSPP, Public Sector Purchase Programme, QE in the Euro zone, QE in the Eurozone, SMP, Target2
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Military, Civil Administration, Taxes, Politics and Economics of the Roman Republic and Empire
The evolution of the Roman republic and later of the Roman empire is interesting because of the interplay between social, military and poltical dimensions as the drivers of change. To that extent, this post is probably best understood in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aedile, Ancient inequality, Angus Madison, army of the roman empire, Augustus, Centralisation, Civil Administration of the Roman Empire, Colonni et servus, Colonnus adscrepti, Comitatenses, Competition, Constantine, Consul, Diocese, Diocletian, Duration of Roman Emperor reign, Economy of the Roman Empire, Gaius Marius, Hadrian, Hopkins, Jean Jacques Rosa, John Matthews, Legatus, Limitanei, Manorialism, Maps, Military of the Roman Empire, Notitia Dignitatum, Octavian, Peter Heather, Praetor, Praetorian Prefecture, Procurator, Provinces of the Roman Empire, Quaestor, Quantity Theory of Money, Rationalis, Roman Empire, Roman Empire Civil Servants, Roman Republic, size of the roman Empire, surface of the Roman Empire, Taxation, Technological development, Vicarius
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Sources for the Roman Empire
While writing the recent posts on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire I made use of a vast array of sources that I believe I should list below for my own sake and for that of others potentially interested … Continue reading
Germany’s Credit Fuelled Growth – Facts and Incomplete Recommendations
Some time ago, I came across this European Voice article by Adair Turner, senior fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and at the centre for financial studies in Frankfurt. He argues that German growth has been fuelled by foreign … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Concepts, European History, European Integration, Sovereign debt Crisis, Uncategorized, Visions of the Political Future of Europe
Tagged 1923, Adair Turner, Competitive Devaluation, current account, Debt Monetisation, ECB, Euro-Zone Crisis Management, Euro-Zone exit, George Soros, Germany, Germany's credit-fuelled growth, Hyper-inflation, Leverage, Moral Hazard, Optimum Currency Area, Ruhr, Savings, Seignoriage, Unit Labour Costs, Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe
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