R. Murphy Esq: Brussels’ logic is that by betting against the euro, hedge funds are driving its value down, so making it harder for hard-pressed states like Greece to balance their books, as the market is demanding. This then creates a vicious cycle of more government spending cuts being required in Greece,
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TimWorstall on 17th Mar 2010 (via timworstall.com)
The EU internal market commissioner tells Tim Geithner that new rules for hedge funds and private equity will not shut foreign funds out of EU financial markets
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FT on 8th Apr 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
The digitisation of books is becoming an increasingly controversial issue in Brussels. Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding is supporting the efforts of Google, the main private actor in the field, while Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has called a hearing on copyright violations committed by Google Books in Europe.
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EurActiv on 28th Aug 2009 (via euractiv.com)
Kevin Drum mulls over the question of whether the Internet generation has lost the ability to concentrate on books and other grown-up stuff: I'm obviously part of the older demographic that loves books, especially long books, and basically believes that you can't really learn anything serious about a subject unless you're willing to read books…And yet... spending a lot of time on the intern...
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The digitisation of books is becoming an increasingly controversial issue in Brussels. Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding is supporting the efforts of Google, the main private actor in the field, while Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has called a hearing on copyright violations committed by Google Books in Europe, following complaints of many member states.
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EurActiv on 28th Aug 2009 (via euractiv.com)
European laws to regulate hedge funds and private equity funds for the first time should be subject to a full impact assessment, a UK treasury minister says
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FT on 7th Sep 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Monbiot talking about climate denial books: An American scientist I know suggests that these books and websites cater to a new literary market: people with room-temperature IQs. He didn’t say whether he meant fahrenheit or centigrade. A scientist would of course be referring to Kelvin making those IQs quite high really.
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TimWorstall on 3rd Nov 2009 (via timworstall.com)
I’ve just stumbled across something brilliant. Abe Books - the second hand books website – has opened a Weird Books Room: ‘a celebration of everything that’s bizarre, odd and downright weird in books.’ They pick a ‘Weird Book of the...
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CommentCentral on 8th Dec 2009 (via timesonline.typepad.com)
Following on from Sunday's meme concerning how many of the allegedly top 100 books I have read, would like to read and would not touch with a bargepole, today's Guardian starts another: books that we have started but cannot finish.I have not even picked up any of the five books listed in the on-line version of the article, though I do admit to starting James Joyce's Ulysses twice but not getting p...
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PeterBlack on 25th Jul 2008 (via peterblack.blogspot.com)
US and UK financial regulators today (11 June) launched an attack against pending EU rules on hedge funds, which they say go beyond international standards and make it difficult for US investment funds to access the 27-member bloc's market.
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EurActiv on 11th Jun 2010 (via euractiv.com)
No, it’s not dastardly speculators, not the CDS market, hedge funds or anything of the sort. In total, BNP Paribas, which has been at the centre of market fears connected to its exposure to eurozone sovereign debt, said it had reduced its government debt exposure by 25pc in the third quarter from €106bn (£91bn) to
