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Germany to tap brakes on high-speed trading | KurzweilAI - 0 views

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    "Germany to tap brakes on high-speed trading "
Giorgio Bertini

Merkel Reaches Her Overdraft Limit: Greek Bailout Could Push German Debt Through the Roof - 0 views

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    When Chancellor Angela Merkel's current government came into power, Germany was just emerging from the economic crisis. But despite pledges to curb deficit spending, Merkel's administration has been running up debt at a record pace -- and bailing out Greece will only exacerbate the situation.
Giorgio Bertini

German Government 'Must Stop Using Greek Crisis for Campaign Fodder' - 0 views

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    As the financial crisis in the euro zone worsens and the heads of the IMF and the ECB come to Berlin to persuade Germany to help Greece now, local commentators are calling for speed and decisiveness. As they see it, political jockeying before the May 9 election in North Rhine-Westphalia is no reason for German politicians to endanger the whole euro zone.
Giorgio Bertini

Greece - Bailout Plan Is All About 'Rescuing Banks and Rich Greeks' - 0 views

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    The 750 billion euro package the European Union passed last week to prop up the common currency has been heavily criticized in Germany. Former Bundesbank head Karl Otto Pöhl told SPIEGEL that Greece may ultimately have to opt out, and that the foundation of the euro has been fundamentally weakened.
Giorgio Bertini

Germany, Greece and Exiting the Eurozone - 0 views

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    Rumors of the imminent collapse of the eurozone continue to swirl despite the Europeans' best efforts to hold the currency union together. Some accounts in the financial world have even suggested that Germany's frustration with the crisis could cause Berlin to quit the eurozone - as soon as this past weekend, according to some - while at the most recent gathering of European leaders French President Nicolas Sarkozy apparently threatened to bolt the bloc if Berlin did not help Greece. Meanwhile, many in Germany - including Chancellor Angela Merkel herself at one point - have called for the creation of a mechanism by which Greece - or the eurozone's other over-indebted, uncompetitive economies - could be kicked out of the eurozone in the future should they not mend their "irresponsible" spending habits.
Giorgio Bertini

Euro Crisis Tests Germany's Leadership - 0 views

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    At a defining moment for the European Union, its largest country, Germany, appeared divided and its leader absent, raising significant concerns about what kind of leadership Chancellor Angela Merkel can offer as the region tries to stabilize financial markets and shore up its common currency.
Giorgio Bertini

A Greek Test: Euro Fears Force Merkel To Act - 0 views

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    Knowing a bailout for Athens would be unpopular, Chancellor Angela Merkel wanted to postpone taking action on the Greek crisis until a key state election on May 9. But financial markets don't care about domestic German politics. Her delay could end up costing the country billions.
Giorgio Bertini

The Debt Crisis: Europe Shudders Over Greece Disaster - 0 views

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    Germany balked for weeks over a possible bailout for Athens. Now its delays are coming back to haunt it in the form of intense international criticism of Angela Merkel's crisis management.
Giorgio Bertini

Germany Already Carrying a Pile of Greek Junk, Hesitates - 0 views

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    Add this to the list of reasons German taxpayers are unhappy about having to lend Greece money to ease its debt crisis: In effect, they already have.
Giorgio Bertini

Hesitation and Patronizing Advice: How Germany Made the Greek Crisis Worse - 0 views

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    The Greeks are mainly responsible for their current predicament. But the German government has made the country's situation worse with its lectures and reluctance to provide assistance. Chancellor Angela Merkel is mainly to blame for the fact that German taxpayers now have to suffer.
Giorgio Bertini

Greek rescue fears hit global stock markets - 0 views

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    Concerns €110bn bailout will not be enough. NYSE 200 points lower; FTSE 100 down 2.5%. Spain's stock market falls 5%; Germany 2%.
Giorgio Bertini

'Tehran Is Succeeding in Duping the West' - 0 views

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    On Monday, Brazil and Turkey brokered a deal with Iran that would see it trading enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. Observers in Germany see a diplomatic coup for the rising powers, but warn that it could just be another ploy on the part of Iran.
Giorgio Bertini

Germany Acts Alone to Protect the Euro and Big Banks Against Speculators - 0 views

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    On Wednesday, the government's partial ban on so-called naked short-selling took effect, as part of Berlin's effort to protect its biggest financial institutions and the euro currency from investors who have been betting against them.
Giorgio Bertini

Nobel laureate praises Argentina; tells US and EU spending is the way out of recession - 0 views

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    United States and the European Union "are using the same recipe that the IMF applied on Argentina" to address the current global financial crisis and this only leads to "stagnation" said Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz attending a gathering of Nobel Prize recipients and young economists in Lindau, Germany.
Giorgio Bertini

Spectre of Greek payout brings humiliating defeat for Chancellor Merkel's coalition - 0 views

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    Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition was seriously weakened last night after her party suffered a humiliating defeat in a key regional state election which was certain to deprive her government of its crucial working majority in Germany's upper house of parliament.
Giorgio Bertini

Angela Merkel's coalition heads for defeat in crucial state election - 0 views

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    Defeat in North Rhine-Westphalia would undermine German chancellor's legislation on tax cuts and health reforms
François Dongier

Op-Ed Columnist - The Euro Trap - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • All this is exactly what the euro-skeptics feared. Giving up the ability to adjust exchange rates, they warned, would invite future crises.
Giorgio Bertini

Chancellor Merkel fails to win opposition support for Greece bailout - 1 views

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    The German government has failed to win backing from opposition parties for its bill to participate in the Greece bailout.
Giorgio Bertini

Merkel sticks to her guns, calls for global market reform - 0 views

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    Angela Merkel told a meeting of international financial leaders that the G-20 must work together to reform the finance system. Merkel is pushing for tougher market regulations despite resistance from many countries.
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