Deepening EU Banking Crisis Meets Euro-TARP and Taxpayers by Don Quijones • Mar 17, 2017 • 39 Comments If the ECB scales back stimulus, banks face even greater risk of collapse. But now there’s a new solution.
Where’s Citizenship for Sale? Huddled Masses Need Not Apply by Wolf Richter • Mar 17, 2017 • 50 Comments Most countries offer citizenship (passports) the hard way. But 7 sell them outright, and 3 have “powerful” passports. “Citizenship Planning” is a thing.
ECB Trapped in its Own “Doom Loop” as Inflation Surges by Don Quijones • Mar 16, 2017 • 11 Comments To keep a financial system and currency union from collapsing on each other.
Brexit Drains Swamp in London, Creatures Head to Luxembourg by Wolf Richter • Mar 13, 2017 • 21 Comments Tax planning for a post-Brexit world.
Are Germans About to Be Made to Pay for Their Love of Cash? by Don Quijones • Mar 12, 2017 • 48 Comments The ECB would do so at its own peril.
Deutsche Bank Tries to Stay Alive by Wolf Richter • Mar 9, 2017 • 15 Comments “One of the hardest things to do is to shrink your way to profitability.”
Are We About to See a “European Monetary Fund?” by Don Quijones • Mar 9, 2017 • 14 Comments There’s an air of furtive desperation about the proceedings.
Definition of Madness: Spain Needs Bigger Banks, Apparently by Don Quijones • Mar 6, 2017 • 12 Comments Not having learned a thing from merged banks that then collapsed.
Are 100-Year Mortgages Next? Effects of Negative Real Interest Rates on Nordic Housing Bubble by Contributor • Mar 4, 2017 • 37 Comments Wage Growth vs. Housing Price Growth.
Euro Breakup Rattles Investors Once Again by Don Quijones • Mar 1, 2017 • 38 Comments Only this time, the ECB is already doing “whatever it takes.”