Tag: 30. Juli 2020

July 30, 2020   -   Michael Klein Heuschrecker und Kartoffelkäferinnen – Deutschlandfunker und Deutschspinnerinnen "Eddie Graf spricht, wenn er von öffentlich-rechtlichen Anstalten redet, immer von Volksdressierern." (...) https://sciencefiles.org/2020/07/30/heuschrecker-und-kartoffelkaferinnen-deutschlandfunker-und-deutschspinnerinnen/

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30. Juli 2020 Frank Ey, Georg Feigl Es war eine schwere Geburt: Mehr als zwei Jahre haben die EU-Institutionen über den EU-Finanzrahmen 2021 – 2027 verhandelt. Zuletzt kam noch das umfangreiche Konjunkturpaket „Next Generation EU“ dazu, um die coronabedingte schwere Rezession in der EU besser abzufedern. Die nun im Europäischen Rat erreichte Einigung ist historisch.…

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Jul 27, 2020 Jean Pisani-Ferry The pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of human societies and fortified support for urgent climate action. But while the small government, free-market template of the last four decades suddenly looks terribly outdated, history suggests that transitions between phases of capitalist development can be harsh and uncertain. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/harsh-uncertain-economic-transition-after-covid19-by-jean-pisani-ferry-2020-07?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4fe7730fde-covid_newsletter_30_07_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-4fe7730fde-106440339&mc_cid=4fe7730fde&mc_eid=4ddf8a88ec

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Jul 24, 2020 Hans-Werner Sinn The European Union's new €750 billion recovery fund is intended to tackle crises such as collapsing manufacturing output in southern member states like Spain and Italy. But money cannot solve the problem of distorted relative goods prices within the eurozone. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/european-union-recovery-fund-will-not-make-italy-spain-competitive-by-hans-werner-sinn-2020-07?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4fe7730fde-covid_newsletter_30_07_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-4fe7730fde-106440339&mc_cid=4fe7730fde&mc_eid=4ddf8a88ec

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Jul 23, 2020 Anne O. Krueger Areas that eased their initial COVID-19 lockdowns and now have surging infection rates are a testament to all that has gone wrong in the pandemic. The lesson from day one still holds: until the virus is defeated, there can be no return to normal. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/covid19-virus-will-decide-when-economy-can-reopen-by-anne-krueger-2020-07?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4fe7730fde-covid_newsletter_30_07_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-4fe7730fde-106440339&mc_cid=4fe7730fde&mc_eid=4ddf8a88ec

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Jul 29, 2020 Nouriel Roubini At the start of the year, when COVID-19 was barely on anyone's radar outside of China, the global economy was entering a fraught phase, facing a range of potentially devastating tail risks. And though the pandemic has since turned the world on its head, all of these threats remain – and…

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Mar-a-Lago statt Bretton Woods? von Bert Losse und Malte Fischer 29. Juli 2020 Der Goldpreis hat ein Allzeithoch erreicht, in den USA rückt eine Anhängerin des Goldstandards in die Führungsetage der Notenbank. Ist eine Renaissance des Edelmetalls in der internationalen Währungspolitik möglich? https://www.wiwo.de/finanzen/geldanlage/goldstandard-mar-a-lago-statt-bretton-woods/26048014.html

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by Nave Dromi The Jewish Press July 29, 2020 "The late war hero and U.S. Senator John McCain once said: "When you're not winning, you're losing." Israel has won a lot of wars in its relatively brief history, but the last outright victory came almost half a century ago, in 1973 when it rebounded from…

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Sweden: The One Chart That Matters by Tyler Durden Tue, 07/28/2020 Authored by Mike Whitney, "While the Covid-19 epidemic continues to drag on in the United States, it’s largely over in Sweden where fatalities have dropped to no more than 2 deaths per day for the last week." (...) https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/sweden-one-chart-matters

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