EU

Project Fear, Brexit-in-name-only and re-join lose in extra-time

9 July 2021

While England was busy going football mad, our Chancellor (Rishi Sunak, not Angela Merkel) made an incredibly important speech. It signalled a sea-change in British…

What the end of the euro looks like

John Butler

23 June 2021

The euro was always a political project, rather than merely an economic one. With both a formal fiscal union on the one hand and a…

The euro’s TARGET2 is revealing what’s really going on inside the euro area

John Butler

22 June 2021

While the European Central Bank (ECB) has backstopped the governments of the weaker euro area economies, and thereby their banks, it hasn’t been able to…

Why the euro is failing without bond markets crashing

John Butler

21 June 2021

The Covid-clouds might now be clearing from the European economic landscape. However, as they dissipate, they reveal just how uncompetitive much of the euro area…

Australia, wages and inflation

Nick Hubble

18 June 2021

There was no doubt about our topic for this Week in Review. While the G7 dithered and dallied, the UK trade deal with Australia was…

If vaccines didn’t vindicate Brexit for you, there’s plenty more to come

Nick Hubble

19 May 2021

Jeremy Warner of the Telegraph sums up what has financial markets rattled: Rarely in recent decades have the inflationary warning signs flashed quite as strongly…

Black Wednesday, How the Euro Dies, Euro, EU

Europe’s Black Wednesday is coming

Nick Hubble

26 April 2021

The European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) was a disaster. Between 1979 and 1987, there were 12 realignments of the ERM. In 1992, things kicked off…

The [not so] secret German plan to blow up the euro

Nick Hubble

19 April 2021

A few weeks ago, I interviewed Philipp Bagus, author of The Tragedy of the Euro. In his book he explains the inherent flaws in the…

The Euro Breakup Probability Calculator

John Butler

30 March 2021

[The following segment about the creation of the euro was first published in the Amphora Report. You can read the full article here.] Although my…

The euro is a source of European conflict, not a solution to it

Nick Hubble

29 March 2021

There were plenty of warnings. It was clear that the euro was inherently flawed. And we also knew how the problems would manifest themselves too.…

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