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The Age of Vulnerability
October 13th, 2014
Two new studies show, once again, the magnitude of the inequality problem plaguing the United States. The first, the US Census Bureau’s annual income and poverty report, shows that, despite the economy’s supposed recovery from the Great Recession, ordinary ...
Mario Draghi urges governments to help fight deflation
October 10th, 2014
Mario Draghi is determined to tackle low inflation in the Eurozone, and has called upon governments to also play their part in the fight against possible deflation. The president of the European Central Bank (ECB) today announced a new ...
ECB May Not Need to Add Stimulus
September 22nd, 2014
The European Central Bank may not need to add stimulus measures after steps in the past three months pushed down the euro, said Governing Council member Ignazio Visco. “Inflation expectations have to be back where they were,” Visco said ...
Draghi’s Trillion-Euro Journey Starts Today
September 18th, 2014
Mario Draghi’s trillion-euro journey is under way. The European Central Bank will announce the result of its first targeted lending program today as part of its effort to stave off deflation in the euro area. Draghi’s first step may ...
ECB plans 500 billion euros bond purchase program
September 4th, 2014
Plans to launch an asset-backed securities (ABS) and covered bond purchase program worth up to 500 billion euros are on the table at Thursday’s European Central Bank policy meeting, people familiar with the discussions say. ECB President Mario Draghi ...
Eurozone: Draghi’s new deal
September 3rd, 2014
About halfway through the speech, Mario Draghi stumbled. The European Central Bank president had reached a passage in his prepared remarks about the worrisome trend in inflation afflicting much of the continent. Few central bankers are more aware of ...
The billion-dollar fall of the house of Espirito Santo
August 29th, 2014
On June 9, with his 150-year-old Portuguese corporate dynasty close to collapse, patriarch Ricardo Espirito Santo Salgado made a desperate attempt to save it. Salgado signed two letters to Venezuela’s state oil company, which had bought $365 million in ...
Euro zone inflation dips as expected in August
August 29th, 2014
Euro zone inflation dropped to a fresh five-year low in August, data showed on Friday, something likely to concern the European Central Bank but not force it into immediate policy action. Consumer prices in the 18 countries using the ...
ECB signs up BlackRock to advise on bond buying
August 28th, 2014
The European Central Bank has stepped up preparations for a fresh move to combat deflation by appointing BlackRock to advise on a possible bond-buying scheme. The advisory arm of the US asset manager, BlackRock Solutions, will help the ECB ...
The Fragmentation of Bretton Woods
August 18th, 2014
The world has changed considerably since political leaders from the 44 Allied countries met in 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to create the institutional framework for the post-World War II economic and monetary order. What has not changed ...
