yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/13/2008
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Some observations from Switzerland that may be relevant to the ongoing talking point from some libertarian institutions that a lack of fealty to small government orthodoxy somehow did the GOP in. They have over here a party of the populist right called the Swiss People’s Party that takes ...
ftalphaville.ft.com - 11/21/2008
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Switzerland’s famous for chocolate, cheese, knives, neutrality and
banking . It’s the latter that could be problematic.
From VoxEU : Citi Chart In this crisis, the strength of a bank’s balance sheet is of little consequence. What matters is the ...
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portfolio.com - 11/21/2008
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portfolio.com —
Richard Baldwin of VoxEU gives us a sneak
preview of a new article by Jon Danielsson: In
this crisis, the strength of a bank's balance sheet is of little consequence. What matters is the explicit or implicit guarantee provided by the state to the ...
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Who Would Bail Out Switzerland's Banks? - Finance Blog - ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/16/2008
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
I was ranting the other day about the
evils of the finance sector and its denizens, and
one of the people I was talking to, being a reasonable person, tried to get me to put things in perspective. “But,” she said, “don’t ...
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