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Stephen Hill
Stephen Hill is a businessman who has been published on classical economics and on European philology and philosophy.
The Davos Jamboree Solves Nothing
In EU terms, it was just another failed euro-summit in all but name.
Enter the Double-Dip Recession
The world is entering the double-dip recession and the euro-zone and UK are already in it.
Greeks Can't Count
Sorting out the numbers in modern Greece is like trying to reconcile the irreconcilable
Up Yours (Again), Delors!
In the week which may well determine the future of the euro, if it’s got one, up pops Jacques Delors
The EU on its last legs
The farce of the EU leaders trying to save the eurozone has reached new heights of idiocy
Finally: Andrew Gowers, euro-cheerleader, repents
He has run up the white flag and lavishly admitted that he and his fifth column of a newspaper got it completely wrong
Euro Boomerang
If the EU cannot put together a deal that makes sense to themselves, why would anyone else bother?
Handing Europe's future to China
The Chinese no doubt do have a plan to save the euro: buy Mercedes, Airbus, Rolls Royce, Fiat, Danone.
Europa's School Report
In her economics mock in July she calculated that €440 billion was the answer, but the real answer was nearer five times bigger
Winter of Mass-Discontent
The electorates are on the march, in New York with the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstration, London, Frankfurt...
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