Category: Europe Written by Glen Asher

With Europe still circling the white porcelain bowl, I thought it was time to revisit the fiscal situation in Germany, the lynchpin that seems to be the only thing that is holding Europe together.   It is still very early in the fiscal year so trends in Germany's finances are

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Category: Europe Written by Glen Asher

In recent days, weeks and months, those of us who live in the overly-indebted so-called "developed" world have been subjected to repeated attempts by governments to cut spending in a last gasp effort to achieve some semblance of fiscal balance.  Those of us who live in Canada and

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Category: Europe Written by Glen Asher

The economic situation in Europe appears to be deteriorating on a month-by-month basis, particularly among Europe's vast hordes of unemployed.  In this posting, I will summarize the most current employment data for the Europe as a whole and on a country-by-country basis so we can see

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Category: Europe Written by Wieck Wildeboer

Category: Europe Written by Glen Asher

As we all have noticed, the European debt crisis is still ongoing despite the occasional headline that suggests that the worst of the problems are behind us/them.  As my regular readers know, in researching for this blog, I always try to reference the best sources available.  That means

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Category: Europe Written by Wieck Wildeboer

Category: Europe Written by Wieck Wildeboer

One of the followers of this blog, Mr. Henk Dam, drew my attention to the recent study called “Poor Economics” written by Abhijit Banerjee and Ester Duflo, both economic professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is an extensive study of the nature of worldwide

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