Euro: The Greek Negotiation Cannot Go On Forever
Today, for the very first time, the Greek government showed some sign of weakness: eventually, Varoufakis & Tsipras will have to please Germany or walk out of the Euro system Well well well, it seems…
Germany
The Only Reason Why Europe Will Have A QE Program
We’re sick and tired to hear alleged “experts” talk about the fact that Germany would have given up on Draghi to start the Quantitative Easing program, it’s time to understand that Berlin too needs some…
Germany: New Negative Yields on Government Bonds
The 5Y German bond yield is now negative: 2015 has just started and yet we have already had a wonderful evidence of the fact that the ECB is not acting as a central bank In…
Another Sad Picture From The Euro Area
No one, not even Germany, is doing good at the moment in the Euro Area: economic and political issues are threatening the invisble €-recovery Whatever Brussells is doing, it’s not working at all: Note that…
Merkel’s Ultimatum To UK: “Don’t Close The Borders”
Farage’s UKIP is exerting a certain pressure on Cameron to close the borders for low-skilled immigrants from EU, but Germany is ready to do anything to avoid this Rules are pretty simple: as far as…
French Unemployment Crisis Is Not Stopping
As Hollande desperately tries to persuade Germany to have less austerity (spoiler: he won’t succeed, even though he could easily do that), French unemployed just reached a new record high François Hollande became president in…
Europe: Is Austerity A Serious Thing ?
It is now time for Berlin to realize that, at the moment, only Germany can afford to have austerity in its fiscal policy: all the other countries are just unable (or simply not willing) to…
German Factory Orders Are Collapsing
The economic slowdown in Germany is getting more and more serious: German factory orders fell by 5.7% between July and August (original publishing date 10/07/14) Here’s the scary picture of the day: -5.7% month-on month…
As Expected, German Trade Surplus Has Just Hit A Record High
Following the beginning in the weakening of the Euro that started in June, German Trade surplus hit a record high in July: now we know that even Berlin needs a more accomodative monetary policy, but…
Will Euro Area Still Be “Not Recovering” In 2017 ?
Take a moment to think about it: can the German yield curve tells us how exactly the crisis is going to move in the Euro Area in the next years ? (original publishing date 08/29/14)…