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A mail exchange about JP Morgan’s “The Euro area adjustment: about halfway there”, Europe Economic Research, 28 May 2013

Jun 24, 2013 12:58 PM

From : Paul Jorion
Object : The Euro area adjustment: about halfway there
Date : 21 June 2013 21:33:20 UTC+02:00
To : Malcolm Barr, David Mackie

Good day MM. Barr and Mackie,

I’m writing to you as I receive several mails drawing my attention to the following paragraph of
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VUB and ULB, “Stewardship of Finance” chair, Prince Philip and Princess Mathilda of Belgium ask students about their research, Avril 18 2013

Apr 29, 2013 7:57 PM

Well, call me sentimental, but in a world of confrontation, disarray and dearth of proper answers, the whole occasion was, please forgive me for being so blunt, perfect.
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fifteenth lecture, 17^th April 2013

Apr 29, 2013 3:47 PM

“What Can We Tell about the Future?” was my final lecture at the Stewardship of Finance chair in the academic year 2012-2013. The lecture was held in English as had been the case with prior ones. Most questions which then came from the room were in French, I answered them in the same tongue.

</p><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text"><a class="wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link" href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/29/vub-stewardship-of-finance-chair-fifteenth-lecture-17th-april-2013/">read more…</a></p></div> <div class="wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-17124a9a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"><div class="wp-block-post-comments-count">0</div> <a class="wp-block-read-more" href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/29/vub-stewardship-of-finance-chair-fifteenth-lecture-17th-april-2013/" target="_self">comment(s)<span class="screen-reader-text">: <b>VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fifteenth lecture, 17<sup>th</sup> April 2013</b></span></a></div> <div style="height:16px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity alignwide is-style-wide"/> <div style="height:16px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div> </li><li class="wp-block-post post-1139 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-unspecified"> <div class="wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow"><h2 class="alignwide wp-block-post-title has-var-wp-custom-typography-font-size-huge-clamp-2-25-rem-4-vw-2-75-rem-font-size"><a href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/15/vub-jacques-attali-peut-on-theoriser-lavenir-wednesday-april-17-at-630-pm/" target="_self" ><b>VUB, Jacques Attali: “Peut-on théoriser l’avenir ?”, Wednesday April 17 at 6:30 pm</b></a></h2> <div class="wp-block-group is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fc9f69e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"><div class="wp-block-post-date"><time datetime="2013-04-15T09:18:34+02:00"><a href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/15/vub-jacques-attali-peut-on-theoriser-lavenir-wednesday-april-17-at-630-pm/">Apr 15, 2013 7:18 AM</a></time></div></div> <div class="wp-block-post-excerpt"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt"><p>I’ve just heard from Jacques Attali who is currently in Shanghai that he will need to be in New York on Thursday morning. This will make it impossible for him to give the lecture planned at the VUB on Wednesday April 17. I’m sure this will be especially disappointing for those of you for whom</p></p><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text"><a class="wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link" href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/15/vub-jacques-attali-peut-on-theoriser-lavenir-wednesday-april-17-at-630-pm/">read more…</a></p></div> <div class="wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-17124a9a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"><div class="wp-block-post-comments-count">2</div> <a class="wp-block-read-more" href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/15/vub-jacques-attali-peut-on-theoriser-lavenir-wednesday-april-17-at-630-pm/" target="_self">comment(s)<span class="screen-reader-text">: <b>VUB, Jacques Attali: “Peut-on théoriser l’avenir ?”, Wednesday April 17 at 6:30 pm</b></span></a></div> <div style="height:16px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity alignwide is-style-wide"/> <div style="height:16px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div> </li><li class="wp-block-post post-1129 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blog category-stewardship-of-finance-2 tag-stewardship-of-finance"> <div class="wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow"><h2 class="alignwide wp-block-post-title has-var-wp-custom-typography-font-size-huge-clamp-2-25-rem-4-vw-2-75-rem-font-size"><a href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/06/publishers-behold/" target="_self" ><b>PUBLISHERS BEHOLD!</b></a></h2> <div class="wp-block-group is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fc9f69e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"><div class="wp-block-post-date"><time datetime="2013-04-06T09:08:57+02:00"><a href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/06/publishers-behold/">Apr 6, 2013 7:08 AM</a></time></div></div> <div class="wp-block-post-excerpt"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt"><p>On the 18<sup>th</sup> of April will come to an end the first year of my teaching about the “Stewardship of Finance” at the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). The videos of my lectures can all be viewed here on this blog and the full set can be accessed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkh7rbvMs-WxWnk-Q07TiHHh_nm-V0s4Z">here.</a></p> <p>I’m currently writing up my lectures</p></p><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text"><a class="wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link" href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/06/publishers-behold/">read more…</a></p></div> <div class="wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-17124a9a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"><div class="wp-block-post-comments-count">0</div> <a class="wp-block-read-more" href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/06/publishers-behold/" target="_self">comment(s)<span class="screen-reader-text">: <b>PUBLISHERS BEHOLD!</b></span></a></div> <div style="height:16px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity alignwide is-style-wide"/> <div style="height:16px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> </div> </li><li class="wp-block-post post-1115 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-finance category-stewardship-of-finance-2 tag-speculation"> <div class="wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow"><h2 class="alignwide wp-block-post-title has-var-wp-custom-typography-font-size-huge-clamp-2-25-rem-4-vw-2-75-rem-font-size"><a href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/02/vub-stewardship-of-finance-chair-fourteenth-lecture-28th-march-2013/" target="_self" ><b>VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fourteenth lecture, 28<sup>th</sup> March 2013</b></a></h2> <div class="wp-block-group is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fc9f69e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"><div class="wp-block-post-date"><time datetime="2013-04-02T16:24:28+02:00"><a href="https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2013/04/02/vub-stewardship-of-finance-chair-fourteenth-lecture-28th-march-2013/">Apr 2, 2013 2:24 PM</a></time></div></div> <div class="wp-block-post-excerpt"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt"><p>The fourteenth lecture of the course about on speculation. Pro (LoL) and contra.</p> <p><iframe data-cmplz-target="src" data-src-cmplz="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CiKBaT5e2BI?list=PLkh7rbvMs-WxWnk-Q07TiHHh_nm-V0s4Z" width="600" height="380" src="about:blank" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

The author whose name I unfortunately don’t remember during the lecture: Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera. How Financial Models Shape Markets, Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT Press 2006
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, thirteenth lecture, 21^st March 2013

Mar 29, 2013 9:06 AM

The thirteenth lecture on ethical ways of sharing newly created wealth. The situation in Cyprus served as an illustration.

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COMPLEXITY AND THE “SKYNET EFFECT”

Mar 22, 2013 8:56 PM

This is the translation by John Holland of my post entitled Complexité et effet Skynet, originally published on June 16th 2012.

The world in which we live today increasingly resembles a science fiction film from the 1950s. Some of those films were excellent because they raised fundamental questions about how machines
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, twelfth lecture, 14^th March 2013

Mar 18, 2013 10:11 PM

Twelfth lecture of the « Stewardship of Finance » chair. It is the notion of risk and the different forms of risk sharing which allow the building of a reasoned catalogue of all types of financial instruments and analysing them in an ethical perspective.

Is it admissible that taxpayers were required not only to pay
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, eleventh lecture, 7^th March 2013

Mar 11, 2013 5:20 PM

The eleventh lecture of the « Stewardship of Finance » Chair, devoted entirely to the tragic story of the Texan corporation called Enron which was the topic of my book Investing in a Post-Enron World (2003).

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