Today New Jersey Governor Chris Christie delivered a historic tirade blasting fellow Republican John Boehner for refusing to hold a vote on aid for Hurricane Sandy. The raw anger and emotion was like something from out of...

From what we understand, it is notoriously difficult to catch George Soros speaking.  So, we’re glad that Soros decided to upload this video of a speech he gave at the Festival of Economics in Trento Italy in...

Growing political turmoil in Italy – the ailing euro periphery’s largest and most important economy – could be a dealbreaker for any sort of ECB plan to save the euro. The newsflow out of Italy has been...

The hot read in Euro-economics this week was a note from UBS’ Paul Donovan titled Who wins with the Euro? (Both ZeroHedge and FT Alpha have written about it) The question is controversial, because there’s some insinuation...

Ramanan rounded up some pretty incredible Nicholas Kaldor quotes on Europe from the early 70′s.   It’s really remarkable commentary given the time it was written.   Given its pre-Euro timeframe, one could even argue that this...

Current account balances have been used to analyze exchange rates in economics for a long time. A country with a strong current account surplus–meaning they are exporting more than they are importing–usually has stronger currencies than those...

Jim O’Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, eloquently lays out what may be the only solution to save the euro in a new op-ed on The Telegraph’s website. Currently, the euro crisis is about Spain and...

Conventional wisdom would suggest that smoking is a business that’s immune to economic downturns.  Some might argue that smoking might actually rise during periods of economic distress. However, the folks at Philip Morris International (PMI) would argue...

As Europe struggles through its sovereign debt crisis, Germany is considered the strong arm of the region. But before the formation of the eurozone the country had quite the current account deficit, compared with Ireland, Italy and...

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