A curated selection of links we hope can enlighten us all; some come from our corner, some do from other corners of the net. And as always, our comment widgets are anxious to get your suggestions: Are we all Greeks? Yes, we are It’s not just economics, euro sceptics! Apple's sleazy secret police lose their leader Czech leaders, arrogant and corrupt how to get your ex back Three US economic misconceptions…
Six European nations have made their economic way into this year’s Top 10 Properity Index, a worldwide assessment of wealth and quality of life, although only two of them belong to the European Monetary Union. Out of 110 countries, Norway and Denmark lead the rankings, ahead of Germany (15) and France (18). The Legatum Prosperity Index provides the world’s only global assessment of national prosperity based on both private and public finance,…
According to surveys that JP Morgan analysts have carried out for their investors, this is what the Greeks believe at this moment: Impact of Europe summit in Greece: 44% negative; 15% likely to be negative; 36% positive or probably positive. The agreement is a great loss of sovereignty for Greece: 49% Greece should stay within the Euro: 73% Greece should return to the Drachma: Less than 20% The agreement with Europe should be approved by: absolute majority…
According to surveys that JP Morgan analysts have carried out for their investors, this is what the Greeks believe at this moment: Impact of Europe summit in Greece: 44% negative; 15% likely to be negative; 36% positive or probably positive. The agreement is a great loss of sovereignty for Greece: 49% Greece should stay within the Euro: 73% Greece should return to the Drachma: Less than 20% The agreement with Europe should be approved by: absolute majority…
We’ve opened a little simple section, ‘From all corners of the web’, which you can check on the left end of our front page. As we are (sort of) the new kid on the street, we feel terribly curious about, well, almost everything we hear here, so in addition we hope you’ll like these link selections that will be posted over each weekend. And as always, our comment widgets are anxious…
Passing on a clarifying (!?) note from Citi analysts… “The first comments, which anticipate a much discussed and possibly without clear conclusions summit in Europe today, were disappointing. Especially on two, at the moment, important issues: banking and the EFSF. Also, the markets themselves were disappointing. Gold has again gone up sharply ($ 1,714 an ounce) as well as raw materials (crude oil $ 111.35 per barrel). This rise is…
Passing on a clarifying (!?) note from Citi analysts… “The first comments, which anticipate a much discussed and possibly without clear conclusions summit in Europe today, were disappointing. Especially on two, at the moment, important issues: banking and the EFSF. Also, the markets themselves were disappointing. Gold has again gone up sharply ($ 1,714 an ounce) as well as raw materials (crude oil $ 111.35 per barrel). This rise is…
At The Corner, we have a noticeable penchant for mixing news from the bright side, so we couldn’t let pass this occasion in which one of the core-Europe main actors and some British-based bank analysts have had warm opinions on the state of the Spanish economy (emphasis is ours.) According to this piece of reporting from the best-seller Spanish newspaper El País, at the end of the European Council meeting, French president…
We suspected that our readers might be interested in some of the remarks that Mr Botín made today during the IV International Banking Conference in Boadilla del Monte, so here you are a few highlights to discuss. On economic cycles: “This crisis reminds us of a number of things: cycles are not a thing of the past, liquidity is not always abundant and cheap and at times it can even disappear, financial…