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There is a tide in the affairs of men 25 Aug 2013 | 02:40 am
Above a suggested choice for the single take-away chart from the presentations at the Kansas City Fed’s economic policy symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It’s from Helene Rey’s paper (London Busines...
Security tactics 21 Aug 2013 | 03:18 am
Regarding the headline here: US and UK at odds over security tactics as row escalates something comes to mind. The signals intelligence alliance between the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zeal...
Their fibres are radioactive. 11 Aug 2013 | 09:46 pm
It’s been a bit All Snowden, All The Time on this blog. I think it makes sense to read the story as a European one, though. Here’s a little more. From Snowden Part One: Snowden: As a general rule, so...
Spies for Europe. 11 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
We’ve suspected for some time that the French and German governments’ refusal to take part in the Iraq war had something to do with their access to independent overhead imagery satellites. Briefly, Fr...
The United States economy recovered. 4 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
So I was arguing with Jamie Kenny about Obama’s economic record. @yorksranter @donpaskini @chrisbrooke i mean whole thing based on 'new normal; of lower wages and benefits. Classic economic royalism....
Bang! 4 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
Oh well, here it is: yes, Virginia, the BND shared enormous amounts of surveillance material with the NSA, both from their military SIGINT group deployed with the German army in Afghanistan and from, ...
Edward Snowden and the Political West 28 Jul 2013 | 08:43 pm
Germany is the theatre in which the consequences of Edward Snowden’s disclosures are being played out. Why is this? Obviously, privacy and data protection are especially sensitive in Germany. After t...
People Like Us 20 Jul 2013 | 03:14 am
From German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble weekend surge of editorials on the Eurozone crisis (via Süddeutsche Zeitung) – Alle internationalen Studien bestätigen dies, genauso wie die EZB, die EU...
On refrigerants and Cypriot euros 17 Jul 2013 | 12:21 am
Capital controls continue in Cyprus. They’re getting more refined, but that could make them easier to retain. No one is having much success raising concerns about what this means for European integrat...
The Czech Economy That Didn’t Bounce? 27 Jun 2013 | 02:17 pm
The Czech republic has been making the news recently. On the one hand the country has been on the receiving end of massive, devastating floods, while on the other the country’s government was brought ...
