Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba – the current Spanish Socialist Party candidate for PM – requested the country’s banks make greater contributions and its rich individuals to provide assistance in an effort to “help end the country’s deep economic crisis,” as reported in a recent Nasdaq article. He also said that “it’s time for those who’ve suffered… Continue Reading
The European Union has been heaping the criticism on Spain vis-à-vis the way it has been dealing with savings banks and tax policy. But Spain has not taken this lying down. Indeed, according to a Bloomberg article it has been “persuading the EU to water down judgments issued as part of a new economic-policing system.”… Continue Reading
The big wigs met yesterday in Paris with the goal of making peace with Euro authorities vis-à-vis how investors will participate in the Greek sovereign debt reconstruction. According to an article in The Financial Times, this is also meant to ease Greek’s burden as well as make the “banks’ original plan that would have seen… Continue Reading
Troubled Times for Greek Finance; Not Happy Swiss The Greek economy is up the creek without a paddle. As well, this is impacting the Swiss populace which is now sitting around watching this turmoil unfold. The Greek parliament has just said yes for increased austerity in an effort to meet EU-IMF bailout terms. This led… Continue Reading
According to a recent news article in The Irish Central (from newly-released figures from the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association [ISME]) it might not be such good news for the Irish government that the black economy is experiencing an intense revival. Indeed, figures showed that this success was actually causing the government “$7billion in… Continue Reading