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Global finance 'as vulnerable' as in 2008: ex-ECB chief
AFP, Published on 04/09/2018
» PARIS - Too much debt has made the world's financial system as vulnerable as it was 10 years ago, Europe's top central banker during the 2008 global meltdown has warned as he looks back on the crisis.
Interrogating German ‘leadership’
News, Published on 16/04/2014
» Many in the eurozone’s crisis countries complain that the source of their suffering is a rigid economic-austerity regime — including reductions in wages and pensions, tax increases, and soaring unemployment — imposed on them by Germany. Hostility against Germany has reached a level unseen in Europe since the end of World War II.
Ex-Goldman trader Tourre goes on trial for fraud
AFP, Published on 15/07/2013
» The US civil fraud trial of former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre, who became a face of Wall Street excesses that fomented the 2008 financial crisis, opened Monday.
Spain seeks French support as eurozone crisis deepens
AFP, Published on 26/07/2012
» Europe's economic crisis has deepened, with a slump in German confidence, worsening British recession and a debt-wracked Spain seeking French support in the face of soaring borrowing costs.