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Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Italy’

Pittsburgh or Versailles? Will Italy and Germany have to pay the full bill of the global imbalances?

by Carlo Bastasin | October 7th, 2009 | 11:34 am

The agreement to coordinate global economic strategies was one of the most impressive achievements by the G-20 in Pittsburgh and at the IMF meeting in Istanbul. But without credible agreements on currency policies, that project could turn out to be very vulnerable, or even a Trojan horse allowing politically stronger [...]

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