All posts tagged "Desmond Lachman"
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Economic policymakers ignore risks at their peril
In 2008, on the eve of the Great Economic Recession, world economic policymakers were overly complacent about the...
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Mario Draghi and the European Titanic
This morning’s sanguine steady-as-you-go press conference by European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi has to remind one...
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Euro will not survive if Italy fails
US policy-makers and world financial markets are surprisingly calm about the deepening Italian economic crisis. Italy’s economy is...
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Early Italian economic warning signals
Anyone who thinks that the Euro crisis is over has not been paying attention to recent financial market...
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EU celebrates an end to Greek aid as an Italian storm looms
Ο κ. Klaus Regling λέει ότι θα πιει ένα ποτήρι ούζο για να γιορτάσει αυτό το σημαντικό ελληνικό...
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Hopefully, Turkey isn’t the trigger to a global economic calamity
Over the past few days, there has been an almost 20 percent rebound in the Turkish lira from...
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Italian crisis may make Greece’s look benign by comparison
Desmond Lachman As the world’s major central banks seem anxious to normalize monetary policy, there is one important...
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It is Italy’s economic growth, stupid
Rapid Italian economic growth is essential if Italy is to resolve its serious public debt and banking system...
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Italy may trigger new global crisis
Desmond Lachman In choosing this moment to heighten trade tensions with Europe, Donald Trump is ignoring major...
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Italy is too big to fail, too risky to be ignored
If ever one doubted that Italy should not have adopted the euro as its currency, all one need...
