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Germany Accepts Easier Funding of European Debt

Just a few hours ago, Chancellor Merkel, agreed on an initiative to help banks and indebted countries. The initiative was mostly supported by Spain and Italy. The agreement states that governments will be able to borrow money from ESM and EFSF to buy their own bonds, so they will be protected from financial speculation. Countries [...]

US Economist Joseph Stiglitz: The Euro Could Dissolve

Internationally acclaimed Nobel Prize-winning (2001) US economist and former economic advisor to Bill Clinton Joseph Stiglitz, told a panel discussion in Vienna Thursday that Greece can no longer borrow money from its lenders and “its hands are practically tied.” Everything depends now on whether the ECB will invest money in the debt-ridden country and on [...]