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Talks in the Eurozone turn on who is going to accept the loss in a debt restructuring deal, and now architects of the plan are saying private-sector bondholders may not have to take a haircut in the event of a bailout. The news has fueled a short-term rally, but experts criticize the measure as one that will result in the same kind of catastrophe that befell Ireland when it granted banks a blanket bailout that pushed the debt onto Irish citizens and resulted in a staggering collapse of the economy. As European countries scramble to guarantee one anothers debt and lenders seek to avoid paying for bad decisions, ratings agencies are poised to downgrade the entire region. For more on this continue reading the following article from Economists View.
Felix Salmon:
The eurozones terrible mistake, by Felix Salmon: The FT is reporting today that the new fiscal rules for the EU include a commitment not to force private sector bondholders to take losses on any future eurozone bail-outs.
The World Bank demonstrated that deregulatory neo-liberalism is alive and well, but turned its back on evidence-based policy making this week, when it published a report calling for countries to dismantle or reduce laws requiring severance payments for redundant workers despite finding absolutely no evidence that these payments had any negative effects on employment levels or recruitment!
Reforming severance pay, published by the Banks Social Protection and Labour Unit, suggests that unemployment benefit is all that redundant workers need, although it accepts that, if employers and unions choose to negotiate redundancy pay, that could still be acceptable (thats big of them!)
But as Peter Bakvis of the ITUC/Global Unions Washington Office comments:
Curiously, despite its radical proposals for eliminating or scaling down severance pay programmes, Reforming Severance Pay states that the research carried out for the book found little evidence of negative impacts on labour market outcomes, particularly in the few studies that isolate the severance pay impact.
The report itself says:
While proponents argue that flexicurity increases productivity and employment without sacrificing employment security or hurting vulnerable groups, the evidence relating to productivity effects is tenuous. Aft
I need a rant. Last night when Mrs MSE and I were on one of our Scrabble dates (2for1 restaurant voucher and Travel Scrabble – I know how to show a girl a good time), an American chap at the next table leant over and said: “You shouldn’t be allowed to use those silly words; you should only use normal words.”
People seem to have an inherent need to interfere in Scrabble and this is quite a common comment. Luckily, he said it with a twinkle in his eye, or I’d have told him to bog off.
It’s the frustrating lack of logic in this sentiment that gets my goat. Please tell me what a ‘normal word’ actually is – a doctor may use zygote in everyday speech, a healer chi and a classicist xi.
With such a discontinuity of vocabularies we therefore need to find a way to police ‘normality’. You could play to the lowest common denominator, leaving the board filled with the, cat, sat, on and mat.
Or, how about this: you could consistently define all the permissible words somewhere – perhaps in a manual? Now that’s a clever i
More money is spent on the day after Thanksgiving than any other day of the year. Its called Black Friday because on that day retailers bottom lines turn from red to black- their losses turn to profits as consumers go on a spending spree, lured by bargain pricing. Retailers have a bag of tricks and marketing ploys to maximize their profits, and the unwary consumer may not be aware of them. So, here are some of the strategies used by major retailers to make the most of Black Friday, with tips on how to outsmart them and get the most for your money.
Ads, circulars and coupons will advertise bargain prices, but the small print will announce certain restrictions. For example, a deeply discounted price on an item will remain in effect only until noon, or earlier. If you purchase the item after the deadline, theres no discount. The best bargains are available only to the early birds.
Pending home sales in the U.S. fell in the month of September, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said in a recent report. The NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index, which measures contracts but not closings, dropped 4.6 from August to September but sits 6.4 percent higher than one year earlier in September 2010. This is the third straight month of monthly declines yet yearly gains. The same trend appeared in results for both August and July. “A combination of weak consumer confidence and continuing tight lending criteria held back home buyers, even though the private sector added nearly 2 million net new jobs in the past 12 months,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said in a statement. On a regional basis, pending home sales saw the largest September declines in the Midwest, where the index fell 6.2 percent month-over-month. Other regions saw declines, as well. The South fell 5.5 percent from August to September, while the Northeast saw a 4.7 percent decline in the same time frame. The W