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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Category: Europe Written by Glen Asher

With the Greece debt problem apparently "solved", at least for the time being, I thought that it was time to take a fresh look at Europe's largest nominal debt transgressor and the world's third largest overall debtor nation; Italy.   According to the most recent data from the

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Category: Europe Written by Wieck Wildeboer