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- Category: EA November 2011
- Created on 02 December 2011
In the waning years of the last century there was great hope -- and hype -- about the “global 
market" brought about by new technologies. In the early years of this new century, the darker side of the global market has become more evident as economic trouble anywhere becomes economic trouble everywhere: e.g., the failure of Lehman caused a global contagion.
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- Category: October 2011
- Created on 27 October 2011
As EU leaders emerged from their marathon negotiations on resolving their nations’ multi-faceted financial crisis, all proclaimed victory while speaking in ways designed to be well-received in their own countries.
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- Category: October 2011
- Created on 24 October 2011
Too sensitive to be aired extensively in public, a potentially crucial element in this week’s “make-or-break” negotiations on the eurozone’s debt crisis is a possible buy-in by the International Monetary Fund.
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- Category: September 2011
- Created on 06 October 2011
As Jean-Claude Trichet gave his final news conference before stepping down as president of the European Central Bank, speculation focused on the likely stance of his successor – Italian central banker Mario Draghi – amid the euro-turmoil.
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- Category: EA September 2011
- Created on 30 September 2011
As Britain’s political parties open their season of party conferences, leaders are publicly 
assessing the impact and implications of the days and nights of rage that set England afire this summer. How worried should they be? And how should the outburst be interpreted across Europe and in the U.S.? Is this a year of coincidences in violence or is it another global upheaval – like 1848 or 1968? – that seeks to upend a world order that outlived its sell-by date?
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