Category Archives: European Union

You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet: The Financial Crises Yet To Come

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa In a second New York Times article Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (RR) have gracefully acknowledged their error and defended themselves from their critics. At issue was their empirical analysis relating debt and … Continue reading

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Cyprus

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa     The small island country, Republic of Cyprus, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria, Lebanon, northwest of Israel and north of Egypt is about … Continue reading

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People’s Republic Of China, Republic Of India, And United States Of America

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Jagdish Bhagwati, the well-known trade economist at Columbia University, has raised two important points about India’s relationship with the United States in a recent report in The Economic Times, an Indian daily newspaper … Continue reading

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European Union: The Winner Of The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (The author, 43, has been under consideration since 1996 or earlier to be awarded the Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee) The Kingdom of Norway is not a member of the European Union. … Continue reading

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The Investigation Of Sam Bacile

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Arab Spring, the raison d’etre of President Barack Hussein Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, is on the eve of going up in flames, as if fire on ice. An obscure man in Los Angeles … Continue reading

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Hollande And Merkel, After Sarkozy

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa George Soros, the darling of hedge funds, is concerned about the rise of the reich. An economically powerful and united Germany since 1989, from west to east, at the heart of Europe, healthy … Continue reading

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Policy Lessons For The Cognoscenti

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Giving lessons to world leaders on matters of economic policy was the bailiwick of John Maynard Keynes in the last century. He was a wealthy upper class Englishman, bi-sexual and similar to Elton … Continue reading

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How Europe Can Be Saved

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa In an earlier article in these pages I had proposed ways of thinking differently about the future of Europe. The details of how the continent can achieve such a future beginning with the … Continue reading

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Is Europe Ready Not To Grow?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The European experiment to unite across borders is now a metaphor for war. The blood is now of the color of money. Before, for about 2 centuries, from Napoleon to Hitler and Stalin, … Continue reading

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Mr François Gérard Georges Hollande, Onto Sixth Republic?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa   François Gérard Georges Hollande is now the 24th president of the Fifth French Republic having won the election in second round voting by more than 50% of the total number of registered … Continue reading

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