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Twist and Shout

What's the connection between a popular dance from the early 1960s, a London orphan, the Beatles, and US monetary policy? The key word starts with "T" and ends with "T". Got it?

Waisenkind

Geldpolitik

I was reminded of one of my favourite childhood nursery rhymes last week when Portugal announced that it would ask the EU for help of around €80 billion to finance its debts. In doing so, it followed the examples of Greece and Ireland.

Kinderreim, -lied

Milliarde(n)

Schulden

The right time?

Economic policy makers around the world face a tough question. They have to decide when they should withdraw the stimuli — low interest rates and increased budget deficits — that helped to avoid the "great recession".

Wirtschaftspolitische Entscheider

zurückziehen

Zinssätze

Haushaltsdefizite

Two cheers for Greece?

This might seem like an absurd idea in the current situation, but maybe the EU — or, to be more precise, the eurozone — should be grateful to Greece for the mess it has got into with its public finances. The news is not all bad after all.

Chaos

EFA (45): Exit strategies

Over the past year, the term exit strategy has entered the vocabulary of economics. But what exactly is such a strategy? This is the topic of the 45th item in our regular Economics for Amateurs (EFA) series.

Rückzugsstrategie

Volkswirtschaft(slehre)

Thema

hier: Folge

Five certainties for 2010

How about a few economic predictions for 2010? Actually, these predictions won't be as clear as they would have been had I written them before Christmas. Then I had only one good hand. Now I can say, "on the one hand...".

Vorhersagen

einerseits

EFA (38): Liquidity trap

A key concept in Keynesian economics — and a possible explanation forwhy economies can get stuck in a recession — is the idea of a "liquidity trap". Economics for Amateurs (EFA), part 38.

Volkswirtschaftslehre

Liquiditätsfalle

Pot luck

We look at media comment on the fight by EU countries to save jobs in Opel factories, as well as on Australia’s strong economy and Barack Obama’s decision to send 13,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.

A safe place for your money

Imagine just for a moment that you have €100,000 of spare cash lying around at home and you would like to invest it. What should you do with your money? You decide to take it to your bank, but you get a big surprise.

übriges Geld

EFA (23): Nominal and real

There is an key distinction in economics between nominal and real values — for example, when we look at wages, interest rates or exchange rates. This is the subject of the 23rd item in our Economics for Amateurs (EFA) series.

Unterscheidung

der Nominal- und der Realwert

Zinssätze

Wechselkurse

hier: Folge

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