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		<title>Breakthrough at January 23/24 ECOFIN and January 30 European Council?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfgang Münchau (FT Jan 23, 2012) has a point when he says that the IMF should not agree to any more money for the Eurozone, unless the EZ drastically changes direction, including „a minimum degree of joint economic management to &#8230; <a href="http://kurtbayer.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/breakthrough-at-january-2324-ecofin-and-january-30-european-council/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtbayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5314655&amp;post=662&amp;subd=kurtbayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of the 13th January Downgrading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European governments had given a sigh of relief afterSpainandItalysuccessfully auctioned off large bond packages at much lower interest rates onJanuary 12, 2012. One day later, S&#38;P caused shockwaves when 9 Eurozone countries, among them France and Austria, were downgraded by &#8230; <a href="http://kurtbayer.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/the-meaning-of-the-13th-january-downgrading/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtbayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5314655&amp;post=656&amp;subd=kurtbayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was bedeutet das Downgrading am 13.1.2012?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nachdem ein Aufatmen durch die europaeischen Staatskanzleien gegangen war, da am 12. Jaenner 2012 Spanien und Italien ihre grossen Anleihenpakete mit signifikant niedrigeren Zinsen an Mann und Frau gebracht hatten, versetzte S&#38;P ihnen am Freitag, den 13.1. einen neuerlichen Tiefschlag &#8230; <a href="http://kurtbayer.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/was-bedeutet-das-downgradin-am-13-1-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtbayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5314655&amp;post=653&amp;subd=kurtbayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Also Vienna Has Culture!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the end-of-year holidays I had the opportunity to attend three different music events in Vienna. Starting with a new production of Bertolt Brecht’s Dreigroschenoper (Three Penny Opera) in the Volkstheater, we saw a very slim, stripped-down version of the &#8230; <a href="http://kurtbayer.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/also-vienna-has-culture/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtbayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5314655&amp;post=635&amp;subd=kurtbayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Auch in Wien gibt’s Kultur – so was!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ich benutzte die Feiertage zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr, um zu sehen, was es in Wien an Musikveranstaltungen derzeit gibt. Als erstes sah ich Brecht-Weills Dreigroschenoper im Wiener Volkstheater, eine etwas gewöhnungsbedürftige Aufführung. Mackie Messer ist als englischer Punk gezeichnet, Sid &#8230; <a href="http://kurtbayer.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/632/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtbayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5314655&amp;post=632&amp;subd=kurtbayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>12/12:  Weltwirtschaftspolitische Wuensche fuer 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2012 ist ein Schicksalsjahr, nicht nur fuer die Eurozone, sondern fuer die ganze Weltwirtschaft. Ein neues wirtschaftspolitisches Regime muss her: Etablierung einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung unter Einbeziehung von Industriestaaten, aufstrebenden und kleinen Staaten (Weiterentwicklung G-20 zur globalen Governance Institution). Die Weltwirtschaft &#8230; <a href="http://kurtbayer.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/1212-weltwirtschaftspolitische-wuensche-fuer-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtbayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5314655&amp;post=630&amp;subd=kurtbayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Plan for Sustainable Government Financing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The present Eurozone (EZ) crisis is usually seen as a sovereign debt crisis where highly indebted EZ governments are faced – as clients – by financial markets, including rating agencies. The potential solutions presented usually see the financial markets as &#8230; <a href="http://kurtbayer.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/a-plan-for-sustainable-government-financing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtbayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5314655&amp;post=603&amp;subd=kurtbayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London Culture Booming Despite Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ For the consumer of cultural events in London the crisis is invisible. The same is true if one walks around inner London and observes the restaurants and pubs full to the rim. And the same seems to be true of &#8230; <a href="http://kurtbayer.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/london-culture-booming-despite-crisis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtbayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5314655&amp;post=600&amp;subd=kurtbayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hochkulturboom in London trotz Krise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Im Kulturleben Londons merkt man nichts von der Krise. Ebenso wenig, wenn man in der Innenstadt an den stets vollgefüllten Restaurants und Pubs vorbeigeht. Hier geht es weiter in Saus und Braus, auch die Komatrinkerei der Jungen in meinem &#8230; <a href="http://kurtbayer.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/hochkulturboom-in-london-trotz-krise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtbayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5314655&amp;post=596&amp;subd=kurtbayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>December 8/9, 2011: What was, what is, what will be, what should be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The most spectacular outcome was the UK veto to a new EU treaty: Cameron’s gambit did not work out. It sidelined the UK from further EU decisions, without “protecting the interest of the City of London” (how popular was that &#8230; <a href="http://kurtbayer.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/december-89-2011-what-was-what-is-what-will-be-what-should-be/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtbayer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5314655&amp;post=594&amp;subd=kurtbayer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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