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Europe’s Sovereign Debt Crisis Hasn’t Gone Away

It’s surprising that the banking crises facing Ireland and Portugal, and the wider European banking sector - have not been more contagious. While the risk of Ireland and Portugal defaulting soars, other Europe sovereign bond yields remained fairly flat in the third quarter, and Greece even enjoyed a rally of 140bp to 775bp. This calm is not likely to last long though, before more questions are asked of the banks which own the dodgiest euro-zone debt.
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It’s Time to Force China to Play By Our Rules

You’d think, given the critical role global imbalances played in building up the systemic risk that caused the Great Recession that addressing them would be an urgent issue. China’s everyday flouting of World Trade Organisation trade rules would be bad enough in normal circumstances. But now when Beijing clearly stands in the way of economic recovery, Paul Krugman is right to be exasperated that the Chinese have been allowed to keep taxing imports while subsidizing exports.
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