Dutch Finance Minister offers blunt warning against Athens trickery. Desperate eurocrats still hoping for Chinese, G20 involvement. Greek media sources last night revealed that a get-out clause … more →
A diary of deception and distortionwrote 2 months ago: Dutch Finance Minister offers blunt warning against Athens trickery. Desperate eurocrats still hopin … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Bending the truth here and there While Angela Merkel did a bit of overseas wandering about last week … more →
wrote 2 months ago: The US Fed Treasury & the Obama White House are starting to have doubts about a German Chancello … more →
wrote 3 months ago: There have been too many people, and not enough ideas, in the Prime Minister’s head Rumours bu … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Is Obama facing three Cubas at once? Fifty years on, we’ve circled back to 1962 The writing ap … more →
wrote 3 months ago: “Look at my hand, look directly at my hand…” Three problems the great illusionist … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Schauble….does he want the French by the balls? Is Berlin trying to force Athens into controll … more →
wrote 4 months ago: UNCHANGED: STILL NO REALITY Calling the IIF’s bluff over Greek debt is a bold move – but … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Mario Draghi has moved swiftly to reduce German power further inside the ECB Peter Praet (right): an … more →
wrote 6 months ago: This afternoon, European Central Bank (ECB) boss Mario Draghi said he would be prepared to broaden t … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Coordinated alchemy doesn’t turn it into science Sub-atomic theory (or some versions of it) ma … more →
wrote 6 months ago: But the eurozone’s leaders continue to work on The Big Idea The Slog’s Bankfurt ‘M … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Yes Wolfie, we can smell it too. Ever so quietly, with the acquiescence of Berlin, Brussels is plann … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Can German determination beat dog-eat-dog? The Germans are briefing desperately – and claiming … more →
wrote 8 months ago: The EU is splintering along the faultlines of national self-interest As Geithner shocks Wroclaw dele … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Wolfgang Schäuble Schäuble’s Finance Ministry working 24/7 on ‘safest way out’ Ge … more →