Vorige zondag (6 mei 2012) verscheen het volgend interview in De Zondag:
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With the new French winds blowing at the Elysée, the debate on a growth pact gathers momentum: briefly “piano piano” on austerity and ...
A poetic quote coming from Irish political philosopher Edmund Burke referring to Spain. Unfortunately, the quote hasn't lost of its ...
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De kogel is door de kerk, iedereen van ons kan straks aandeelhouder van Facebook worden. Intekenen op een IPO is echter niet altijd ...
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On March 14th, the Media Innovation Center was launched (under the wings of the IBBT) and baptized 'Mix'. Its goal is to support and ...
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The labor market, the most important one in economic terms as far as I am concerned. We used to have the idea that the European labor ...
Het ene pensioensparen is het andere nietWie dacht dat men met de ogen dicht aan pensioensparen kon doen, is deze week toch abrupt ...
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A liquidity trap is a situation when people are hoarding cash, this out of various reasons. A standard definition would say because people are expecting an adverse event, such as deflation, insufficient aggregate demand or war. The classic debate between Keynesians and Austrians focus on the "why", not the fact that cash hoarding ...
I have just returned from a short stay in Budapest. A magnificent town, reflecting its majestic history in architecture, impressive museums, 19th century open air bathing houses (Széchenyi !!) and probably the world's most beautiful library reading room (4th floor of Ervin Szabo Library !!). So we start with the good news and some ...
Earlier this week, we mentioned the rally on high yield European short term government bonds in anticipation of Wednesday's ECB LTRO auctioning (Long Term Refinancing Operation). Markets had expected something in the range of 300-400 bio EUR. The final result was 489 bio EUR spread over 523 bidders, on average almost 1 bio EUR per ...
After issuing a public tender, the Flemish government has apparently made a decision on their new preferred home banker. ING came out as the winner. And already a lot of fuzz going on that it's a shame a non-Belgian, or non Flemish banker for that matter, has been elected. Dexia has announced it will take the decision into ...
Today Pacal Paepen - director capital markets of London city based Daiwa and known from radio 1 coverage on financial markets - explained in a free tribune why David Cameron acted cavalier seul last Friday at the EU summit. And why there is still such a huge difference between Britannia on the one hand and "Europe" or "the old ...
At the Econopolis Economic Encounters on 28/11, we had the pleasure to have Nouriel Roubini - Dr Doom & Gloom - and Ivan Van De Cloot, Chief Economist of Thinktank Itinera. Both were asked to pinpoint the state of play of the current financial crisis, their short & long term expectations and recommendations on the way forward. Dr ...
...which is sad because we only have ourselves to blame ! And I honestly mean that in every sense of the word : sad and totally misplaced political self-pitty. Keynes is to Economics what Nietzsche has been to philosophy : basically a tragic personality and most of all wildly abused. And with an ironic side-kicker as the icing on ...
Simon Hunt, a consultant on the global economy and specialist on China, revealed his outspoken view on the world economy between now and 2030. His distinguishes two periods: the crisis years 2011-2018 and the new real era starting in 2018. We give you a brief summary and his conclusions for the next years.
De laatste maanden betoogden misnoegden in Brussel, Antwerpen, Leuven en Oostende tegen de inhaligheid van de banken. Het “Occupy Wall Street” protest startte deze zomer in New York en vertakt zich nu wereldwijd. Bonussen, zoals de 600,000€ voor de Dexia- CEO Pierre Mariani in 2010, liggen zwaar onder vuur. Zijn bonussen altijd te ...
It seems we have a week of urgent wake-up calls. Italy, the no3 of Europe, placed under supervision by the IMF. And Berlusconi forced to quit because Mr Market is losing its patience in view of 10 year yields now dangerously approaching the tipping point of 7%. He won't leave like that, opposition needs to vote "yes" on austerity, ...
480,000,000,000 or slightly more or less, doesn't make such a difference, does it. Ancient BEF that is. Or in today's lexicon AKA around EUR 12 billion (12,000,000,000). And that's a mighty big number, certainly in a Belgian framework. I even think that if you take the Global Plan of Dehaene-Van Rompuy I under consideration and ...
Vliegtuigcrash versus beurscrashAls luchtvaart en financiën een zaak gemeen hebben dan is het dat ze niet houden van een crash. Maar terwijl de luchtvaart methodes heeft ontwikkeld om de veiligheid steeds te verhogen, lijkt de financiële wereld van de ene crash in de andere te sukkelen. Welke lessen kunnen we leren van de ...
"These are the Campbell's, and these are the Tate's. And this is SOAP". It seems that today we have a repetition of this hilarious 70ies sequel. But it doesn't feature young Billy Chrystal this time, no, we have Nicolas and the Italian gang as ersatz. And Stavros now putting the icing on the cake.Yesterday, Foreign Minister ...
I like bridge, the Rolls Royce of all card games, basta cosi ! I like it because of its honesty and with luck not really being a determinant factor involved. I like it because of the combination of skill & teamwork and the fact it hosts beautiful names in its conventions and play style-figures : Stayman, Niemeyer, precision clubs, ...
Yesterday's marathon meeting delivered some of the goodies, in some cases even surprisingly better than expected, in other respect still vague. And we have postponed once again some important decisions, both on the practical implementation of announcements (SPVs to fund the leveraged vehicle, quid), not a convincing attitude coming ...
"We will deal with that problem once the problem comes to the fore". On the other hand, "gouverner, c'est prévoir". And apparently, this is where politics - be it domestically or on the exterior front - usually looses touch with reality. And unfortunately when it comes to big banks & big (tax payers) money, the collateral damage is ...
If you don’t get pocket aces in your hand, the next best thing is pocket kings. After all, having the second best pair in the game before the flop is dealt almost guarantees you of having the best hand. Of course, there’s just one little problem…..pocket aces trump pocket kings over 80% of the ...
Solidarity is a buzz word these days : solidarity of taxpayers with national or international problems, interbank solidarity (or more the lack of it) and international solidarity amongst central bankers in terms of exchange rate coordination and more recently bail-out initiatives. Last week we had another strong example with the ...
Dit artikel is een gedeelte van het interview dat op zaterdag 3 september 2011 in DS Weekblad verscheen, het magazine dat elk weekeinde bij de krant De Standaard zit. Daarin gaat het falen van het traditionele bancaire systeem, de crisis van 2008 die zich vandaag herhaalt, de reden van de opstart van Econopolis, en de ...
On August 9 2007, the ECB pumped a record 95 bio eur of liquidity into the money market in an effort to unfreeze the desperate conditions of interbank lending. It was a first and serious sign that a crisis was looming. We are now 4 years later on, and the main question remains : could it happen again ?In view of all the focus ...
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