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Interviews 31st May 2016

“What Austerity Has Done Is To Highlight The Poor Management Of The Crisis”

Roberto Tamborini, author, Professor of Economy at Trento University says The Corner at this interview that “we can only start on the road towards a satisfactory recovery with fiscal and monetary coordination in the eurozone, and this fiscal stimulus can only be coordinated via Brussels. This directly calls into question the eurozone’s economic governance, one of the pillars of which is the Maastrich principle of exclusive national responsability.”

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Interviews 9th May 2016

“Spain’s Jobless Rate Would Cause Serious Social Problems In Northern Europe”

Ana Fuentes | “Spaniards tend to be schizophrenic because they all want the best services, like they have in the Nordic countries, free education…and you can only have this by paying much higher taxes than we do in Spain where there is a huge amount of fraud and tax evasion,” says William Chislett, associate researcher at the Elcano Royal Institute and former correspondent for The Times and the Financial Times.

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Interviews 2nd May 2016

“Panama Canal Project Is Likely World Leader In Technology, Innovation”

After straightening out the disputes with the Panamanian authorities over the costs related to the Canal works, Sacyr will finally inaugurate it in June. Board member Juan Maria Aguirre points out that the company has succeeded in overcoming the property crash and has drastically reduced its debt levels. Now it has to contend with the unexpected consequences of having an 8.5% stake in Repsol after the oil price bubble burst.

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Interviews 4th April 2016

“Brussels Is Asking For Less Complex Accounting Regulations”

Fernando Rodríguez  | Peter Walton, Emeritus Professor at the Open University Business School thinks that “regulations which were drawn up for Deutsche Bank cannot work for a small company that manages three supermarkets in Birmingham”. The solution would be to divide the market up.

JJ Ruiz

Interviews 17th March 2016

“A debt crisis in LatAM is still on the very distant horizon”

For the last four years, Jose Juan Ruiz has been chief economist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the largest multilateral development aid agency in the region, surpassing the World Bank. Despite the fact LatAm has suffered a massive shock, one of the biggest differences this time round compared to previous slowdowns is that the region has $600 billion of international reserves.

Max Otte

Interviews 7th March 2016

“It Is In Europe’s Interest To Keep New York And London Powers Away”

After the 2006 publication of his book “The Crash is Coming,” economist Max Otte became famous. In 2011 he launched another best seller, “Stop the Euro Disaster!,” which signalled the exit of Greece from the euro area and recommended that Spain return to the peseta. Otte has always argued that the euro has not united Europe.

Governor Zhou counterbalance of President Xi’s

Interviews 16th February 2016

“There Is Not A Motivation For Yuan’s Depreciation To Boost China Net Exports”

W. Shuo, Z. Jiwei and H. Kan | Recently Governor Zhou Xiaochuan had an interview with Caixin and talked about the yuan exchange rate regime reform, macro-prudential policy framework, and other topics. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. Caixin: The central bank convened its system-wide annual work conference in January. We learned that before the Spring Festival, the branch offices were studying the decisions adopted at the…

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Interviews 30th January 2016

“Massive Loss Of Habitat” Triggers New Array Of Migrations

Luis Martín via TrumanFactor | Saskia Sassen is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a member of the Committee of Global Thought of that institution. She is also Centennial visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Sassen was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences in 2013 for her contributions to the phenomenon of globalization and urban sociology.

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Interviews 29th January 2016

“The Idea That Oil Is In Scarce Supply No Longer Seems Valid”

Luis Carlos Croissier is a member of the board of Repsol, Spain’s biggest oil company. He recalls that proven global oil reserves are currently double the level they were in 1980. Croissier was also chairman of the CNMV, the stock exchange regulatory body, and responsible for the Spanish bourse’s “Big Bang”, at the end of 80’s. Before that time, he was Industry Minister in Spain’s Socialist party.

julius sen

Interviews 21st January 2016

“There Are Loose Monetary Policies With Tighter Fiscal Policies”

Julius Sen, Academic Director at the London School of Economics thinks that “we have a flexible model. The market knows it and plays with it, forcing looser monetary policies and tight fiscal policies with the stability pact in Europe and the ‘sequester’ in the US.  Sen claims that “there will be debt reliefs in some eurozone countries.”