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Posts Tagged ‘economics’

Why buy Kakà when, for the same price, you could get a whole Serie A team?

Monday, January 26th, 2009

This monkey has only a passing interest in football, and so found little of interest in the rumours that Brazilian star Kakà was to leave Berlusconi’s AC Milan. Little of interest until browsing the latest from  La Voce, the online magazine from some of Italy’s leading economists. The site posted an intriguing article by Tito Boeri [...]

The Italian Credit Crunch

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Right-wing American commentator Edward Luttwak (author of Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, and controversial articles like ‘Give war a chance’ and the heavily criticised ‘President Apostate‘) gave a novel and clear-cut explanation of the credit crunch and its likely effects on the Italian public during a discussion last week on RAI3’s Ballarò.
Novel because, unlike most of [...]