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Eurozone: Convergence or Divergence?

Karl-Friedrich Israel — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:40:16 +0000

We revisit the euro’s promise of convergence through a new Divergence Monitor tracking business and financial cycle synchronization since the 1980s. Business cycles became more aligned after 1999, but financial…

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UK inflation is a threat to financial stability – time to conceal that with Eurozone techniques

Bob Lyddon — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 05:05:32 +0000

UK Consumer Price Inflation remained at 8.7% in May. The Bank of England has raised the cost of overnight money to 5% via increases in its Base Rate, and has…

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Latvia : The Only EU Country Meeting The Maastricht Criteria

Sylvain C — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:52:45 +0000

This little county on the shores of the Baltic Sea will become the 18th member of the Eurozone. That is well deserved since Latvia meets all of the Maastricht criteria.…

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March’13: Austerity, Liquidation and Collapses

Kevin Dowd — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:23:32 +0000

This 3rd newsletter, written by Kevin Dowd and Gordon Kerr with Enrico Colombatto, is pointing out the auterity consensus tested as the Irish liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Company, anayzing also further Collapses, Poor Results and Regulatory Arbitrage in banking.

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A Plan for Sound Money

Jacob Arfwedson — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:44:22 +0000

In response to the financial crisis in the euro zone, the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) has worked out and submitted to public institutions a plan which would help countries potentially exiting the euro zone to build stable and sound money. LFMI‘s proposal can be also used by the euro zone when attempting to strengthen the euro and to restore people‘s confidence in the single currency.

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When Will the Eurozone Collapse?

IREF — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:50:13 +0000

As a long-standing critic of the concept of a single European currency, I have not rejoiced at the current problems in the eurozone that threaten the very survival of the euro. Before discussing the events surrounding the Greek debt crisis further, I must provide at least a working definition of what the word "collapse" means. In the context of the euro, there are at least two interpretations that come to mind. The first one suggests that the eurozone project or the project establishing a common European currency has collapsed already by failing to bring about positive effects that had been expected of it.

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