The Dutch Parliament has landed in an untenable legislative cul-de-sac with its version of the Copyright Directive.… Read More Dutch Law Proposes a Wholesale Jettisoning of Human Rights Considerations in Copyright Enforcement
Owner of a small cafe that specializes in fine cakes and sandwiches tells me: “We’ll be lucky if we get half the normal number in July and August.” It’s now “all about damage control.”… Read More Barcelona’s Epic Tourism Boom Is Over, Now the Crisis Begins: My Walk to the Beach
A new tsunami of bad debts washes ashore while banks are still struggling with the debris from the prior tsunami of bad debts… Read More Italy Once Again on the Eurozone Worry List
The world’s largest asset manager is poised for overwhelming influence no matter who wins the next presidential election… Read More The Dawn of the BlackRock Era
Step by step, the EU institutional machine is making the same mistake with the German people that it made with the British people. It is taking a law-abiding and well-meaning nation for granted… Read More The EU Risks Losing Germany If It Picks a Constitutional Fight to the Death, or the Euro If It Doesn’t
As the largest creditor nation in the eurozone and its largest economy, Germany has much to lose if it ends up being the party responsible for the breakup of the single-currency union… Read More How Germany’s Courts Might Destroy the Eurozone
The speed of the economic recovery will be more tortoise than hare… Read More Don’t Bet on a Quick Global Resurrection
The EU project can survive one economic depression in the blighted South. It cannot survive two… Read More Raw Emotion and Unpayable Debt Have Brought the EU’s Simmering North-South Conflict Into the Open
We are temporarily a company with no product and no revenue.”… Read More The $1.5 Trillion Global Tourism Industry Faces $450 Billion Collapse in Revenues, Based on Optimistic Assumptions
Most importantly, we have our health (touch wood) and each other… Read More Welcome to Dystopia: My Life Under Lockdown in Spain
Just how much lower can they go? To Zero. And the ECB’s negative interest rates are driving them closer to it… Read More European Bank Stocks Collapse to March 2009 & 1988 Levels
