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• The Increasing Velocity of Modern Financial Crises

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-12-13

  Edward Hugh submits: Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank president, noted when speaking in Cambridge last Thurdsay that the speed at which financial disruption can spread had “accelerated tremendously over the past few decades”. While debt crises in the 1980s occurred over years, the effects of the Lehman collapse “spread...

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• The IMF/EU Commission Rift on Latvia Seems to Be Deepening

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-07-13

  Edward Hugh submits: Two weeks ago I drew attention to a revealing press conference given by IMF First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky and European Central Bank governing council member Christian Noyer, where it seemed a rather different posture was being taken on the Latvian question than that which...

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• Are the IMF and ECB Lining Up Against the EU Commission over Latvia?

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-06-29

  Edward Hugh submits: There was a very interesting and revealing press conference given by IMF First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky and European Central Bank governing council member Christian Noyer in Paris on Thursday. Christian Noyer said that, in his opinion, Baltic countries like Latvia would not be helped...

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• Exports, Investment Spending Drag German GDP Down in Q1

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-05-28

  Edward Hugh submits: German exports and investment spending plunged in the first quarter, dragging Europe’s largest economy into its deepest economic slump on record. click to enlarge by Edward Hugh

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• Is Hungary Set to Become the Next Iceland?

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-05-20

  Edward Hugh submits: Iceland, why on earth Iceland? Well, the issue I have in mind concerns the independence and viability of central bank monetary policy (especially in a small open economy like Hungary's) and the role interest rates, and investor sentiment, and yield differentials, and oh yes, I almost...

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• Spain's Latest Economic Woes: Two Graphs That Say It All

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-03-30

  Edward Hugh submits: First, the one year Euribor reference rate, which has been falling since the ECB started lowering interest rates in the autumn of last year. click to enlarge And secondly the chart showing the average rate of interest charged by Spanish banks on new mortgages,...

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• What Last Weekend's EU Summit Did and Did Not Achieve

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-03-04

  Edward Hugh submits: Well reading the press on Monday morning it would have been fairly easy to reach the conclusion that nothing really happened yesterday in Brussels, and that a great opportunity was lost. The latter may finally be true, but the former most certainly is not. Let's look...

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• Eurozone Inflation Expectations Fall as Output Gap Rises

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-03-03

  Edward Hugh submits: It’s a depressing spectacle: on both sides of the Atlantic, policy-makers just keep falling short — and the odds that this slump really will turn into Great Depression II keep rising. In Europe, leaders rejected pleas for a comprehensive rescue plan for troubled East European economies,...

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• 'No European Deflation Threat': Trichet Continues to Be Wrong

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-03-02

  Edward Hugh submits: He's at it again. Last year he was busily trying to worry us all that inflation was set to get completely out of hand among the 16 countries that make up the eurozone. Now the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, is hard at...

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