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  • LOTS OF FROTH, by François Leclerc

    Guest post. Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell

    A brand new development in the history of the ECB has occurred: leaks yesterday revealed the broad outlines of its new sovereign debt securities’ purchase programme. One cannot help thinking that it was necessary to prepare the ground in advance, with the ECB decisions…

  • THE ONLY REMAINING MEANS OF SAVING THE EURO

    Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell

    In my articles here, I generally address myself to anyone who wants to read me, but just this once, I would like to direct my address to my fellow financial engineers, and moreover in a tone – also just this once – of provocation which is…

  • Le Vif/L’Express, « There is ALWAYS an alternative », June 22, 2012

    This is an exclusive preview – in English! – of my column which will be published in the Belgian weekly Le Vif/L’Express this coming Thursday

    The phenomenon is the way in which things manifest themselves to us, and this can be real – either with things appearing as they really are; or it can be…