What’s wrong with the French Housing market? It favors the rich in many ways.
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France: a housing market designed for the rich
February 2nd, 2013 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Froggy News, Warning signs | 4 Comments »
Protesting against each others
November 25th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Froggy News, Warning signs | Leave A Comment »
Recent gay marriage debate in France unveils the rise of moral values as pretexts for ruling political debate.
Guy Standing: “the Precariat is growing angry”
November 8th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Featured, Warning signs | Leave A Comment »
Guy Standing is Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath and a founder member and co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a citizenship income for all. He worked at the International Labor Organization as researcher for many years and is author of “The Precariat — […]
A monetary carnage in Greece
August 5th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Warning signs | Leave A Comment »
Just a quick update on this blog in order to highlight one very worrisome (and little discussed) fact about the Greek crisis: the plunge of the money supply.
Euro crisis: worrying facts roundup
August 1st, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Warning signs | Leave A Comment »
Being busy with my projects, I’m not posting very much these days. So here is a quick roundup of warning signs I’m looking in my radar.
Meanwhile in Ireland: mortgage arrears still growing
May 28th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Warning signs | Leave A Comment »
While everyone is talking about Grexit, and all eyes are looking at Spain, more and more Irish people find it hard to repay their mortgages, which is a very bad sign of the inexistence of any sustainable recover of the irish economy.
A run on the spanish banks?
May 21st, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Warning signs | Leave A Comment »
Is there a bank run on the Spanish banks? According to El Mundo, Bankia’s customers did withdraw 1bn euros on a single day last week (the information was then denied by spanish officials). True or not, these allegations are a good opportunity to have a look on the long-term evolution of the deposits in Spain.
European banks lifeline round up – march 2012
May 17th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Warning signs | Leave A Comment »
As the crisis deepens, europeans banks are increasingly relying on central banks. What does it mean for the real economy?
The squeaky problem of the greek silent bank run
May 16th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Crisis routine, Warning signs | 1 Comment »
With the crisis, greek banks have been suffering from huge deposit flight. Official figures show that at least 80 billion euros have been moved abroad since 2009. What consequences for the greek economy? And how to address the problem?
Confirmed: central bank of Cyprus is rescuing cypriot banks through ELA
May 11th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Warning signs | 8 Comments »
The last balance sheet released by the Central bank of Cyprus confirms that the cypriot banking sector is under emergency liquidity assistance injection.
