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Well done Warsaw: Poland’s debt trumps Germany’s and America’s | The Economist. “ANYONE who takes financial-market indicators as a guide to the real world must be mad or a banker. But it is still interesting to note, as Bloomberg has … Continue reading →

Charles I. Plosser (Phil Fed) – “Pressure on central banks is also showing up through other channels. In some circles, it has become fashionable to invoke “lender of last resort” arguments as a reason for central banks to engage in … Continue reading →

… A. Blinder, O. Issing, R. Nixon and W. Duisenberg because quotations from these people helped me to defend my PhD thesis in economics. http://www.tse.fi/EN/media/events/Pages/DissertationDefenceLicSocScAleksandraMaslowska.aspx http://www.tse.fi/EN/media/news/Pages/DissertationCentral-Bank-Independence-Matters.aspx

I am currently writing my PhD defence speech and, while searching for inspiration, I am checking what others wrote at their times of breakthrough. It is somewhat interesting and symbolic what Arthur Burns and Paul Volcker wrote in their Per … Continue reading →

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The European Financial Stability Facility, the euro area’s bailout fund, lost its top credit rating at Standard & Poor’s after earlier downgrades of France and Austria. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-16/s-p-cuts-efs-facility-to-aa-from-aaa.html

“You’ve got to feel sorry for the people at the Fed who have to keep cleaning up the mess that the fiscal policy makers leave,” MacGuineas said. More in Bloomberg’ story: Central Banks Ease Most Since ’09 to Avert Europe-Led … Continue reading →

You JUST need to answer to a question:  how to manage the orderly exit of one or more member states from the European Monetary Union. The Wolfson Economics Prize, second in the amount after the Nobel Prize is founded by Lord … Continue reading →