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Philip Booth

12 April 2013

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Today the IEA published a monograph, The Euro: the Beginning, the Middle and…the End? Given the meeting of EU finance ministers today, there is certainly some food for thought in the...

Capital controls in Cyprus will harm growth and liberty

Philip Booth

26 March 2013

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Countries often impose extreme “temporary” policies in emergencies. In Britain, emergency rent controls, passed in 1917, were not substantially amended until 1988. In the Second...

Tsipranomics: denial, sophistry, brazenness and good storytelling

Kristian Niemietz

23 May 2012

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The rate for travel insurance depends critically on where we go and what we do there. A hiking tour through the Amazon rainforest comes at a higher premium than a stay at a health spa at Lake...

Bringing back the peseta won’t solve Spain’s problems

Juan Ramón Rallo

22 May 2012

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It is not austerity but the threat of insolvency that is killing peripheral economies such as Spain. Since it has become clear that the European Union is not willing to completely mutualise risks...

Illiquid or bust?

Philip Booth

18 May 2012

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Working out who exactly owes what to whom in the eurozone is an increasingly difficult job. Money is pouring out of Greece and now, it would appear, Spain at a rapid rate. €700m apparently...

After default: options for recovery in Greece

Vuk Vukovic

23 April 2012

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Last month saw the first eurozone default. Greece defaulted on its debt, but this event, contrary to popular belief in the final quarter of 2011, did not cause an abrupt panic. It did not force...

Euro break-up – not so simple

Philip Booth

20 January 2012

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Many UK economists are pretty sanguine about euro break-up. Patrick Minford, for example, in the minutes of the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee this month wrote that tales of disaster have little...

Understanding the euro crisis: lessons for future policy-makers

Adam Tebble

6 January 2012

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BBC Online recently produced an informative presentation entitled ‘What really caused the eurozone crisis?’ Taking the reader through a number of key steps and moments, it shows in...

The ECB cannot hold back the tide of euro credit and banknotes

G. R. Steele

17 November 2011

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The European Central Bank (ECB) sits at the centre of a clearing system (‘TARGET2’) for national central banks (NCBs) within the eurozone. The pattern that has built up, particularly...

When it comes to the euro zone, 1+1 = 2: whatever the economists and politicians say

Philip Booth

20 September 2011

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There is much discussion about how to deal with the indebtedness of eurozone countries. Economic analysis is not straightforward, of course. We always have to be aware of the "...

Time to break up the eurozone?

Nick Hayns

14 September 2011

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Writing an article on the fate of the eurozone in recent times has been something of a fool's errand. No sooner has the ink dried on the page, or the printer whirred into life, than a news...

A solution to the euro crisis

Alberto Mingardi

20 June 2011

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Late last year Philip Booth and I proposed a solution to the euro crisis in an article for the Wall Street Journal. This would not resolve all the problems - indeed one of the purposes of the...

Euro crisis no surprise to economists

Richard Wellings

25 March 2011

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They were warned. In the late 1990s, eminent economists queued up to explain the flaws in the euro project. Chief among them was Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, who in 1999 – the year the...

The Tragedy of the Euro

Philipp Bagus

25 January 2011

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Italy, Spain, Belgium and Portugal will need to raise over $800 billion in 2011 to cover roll-over debt and new borrowing. It is unclear if the eurozone will withstand the pressure of bond markets...

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