What Would it Cost a Country to Leave the Euro? That’s What Everyone Suddenly Wants to Know by Wolf Richter • Feb 7, 2017 • 47 Comments It’s the closest the Eurozone has come to falling apart.
Things Just Got Serious in Europe’s War on Cash by Don Quijones • Jan 28, 2017 • 73 Comments To protect citizens from threats as defined by apparatchiks in Brussels.
ECB’s Insider Connections Under Scrutiny Again by Don Quijones • Jan 25, 2017 • 20 Comments Necessary to “maintain a dialogue” with external actors, says ECB.
Nightmare Before Christmas for Spanish Banks by Don Quijones • Dec 21, 2016 • 30 Comments The European Court of Justice refused to listen.
Here Are the Multinationals whose Bonds the ECB is Discreetly Buying by Don Quijones • Dec 15, 2016 • 27 Comments Its new role as “debt-buyer of first resort” raises a whole litany of concerns.
Currency Armageddon? A Word about the Hated Dollar by Wolf Richter • Dec 15, 2016 • 69 Comments The “death of the dollar” will have to be rescheduled.
Italians Vote “No,” Renzi to Resign, Banking Crisis Now Looking for Taxpayers by Wolf Richter • Dec 4, 2016 • 73 Comments Teetering Eurozone banks exposed to flying shrapnel.
The Fix Is Already In, as Italy’s Moment of Truth Beckons by Don Quijones • Dec 3, 2016 • 54 Comments Banks cannot be allowed, at any cost, to suffer the consequences of their own chronic mismanagement, or worse.
Debt & Deficit Outlooks for France, Italy, Spain, & Portugal by Contributor • Nov 30, 2016 • 34 Comments Is “ugly” the right word?
Junk Bond Issuance Collapses in the US and Europe by Wolf Richter • Aug 1, 2016 • 23 Comments At a breath-taking pace. Default rate spikes. US stocks at record.
