Daily Archives: October 29, 2008

The threats to the eurozone’s expansion

October 29, 2008 10:58 am by Financial Times

By Desmond Lachman

Among the more probable long-run casualties of today’s global and financial market crisis will be any further expansion of European monetary union. It is also more than likely that today’s global financial market crisis will mark the end of any serious challenge by the euro to the US dollar as an alternate international reserve currency.

A deep and long global economic recession will put severe strain on the current 15-country euro area. It will also expose the acute external vulnerabilities of those east European countries which aspire to full euro area membership. Read more

Posted in Eurozone |

Preventing a global slump must be the priority

October 29, 2008 1:20 am by Martin Wolf

Give credit where credit is due: Nouriel Roubini of New York University’s Stern School of Business was right. On February 20 2008, I wrote a column entitled “America’s economy risks the mother of all meltdowns”, based on his analysis of the 12 steps to disaster. Alas, not only has the US taken those steps, but it has also – with help from others, including the UK – dragged the world behind it. Read more

Posted in Globalisation |