GenevaLunch » debt http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Students protest Quebec university fees hikehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/23/students-protest-quebec-university-fees-hike/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/23/students-protest-quebec-university-fees-hike/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:59:58 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=68219 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Tens of thousands of students protested in Montreal, Canada this week against a planned increase in tuition fees at Quebec universities, announced by the liberal government lead by Prime Minister Jean Charest. The city has seen daily marches since Monday 19 March. Quebec’s tuition fees, which are by far the lowest in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/23/students-protest-quebec-university-fees-hike/feed/ 0 Portugal passes muster for next funding roundhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/28/portugal-passes-muster-for-next-funding-round/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/28/portugal-passes-muster-for-next-funding-round/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:09:55 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67036 GenevaLunch.com Greeks bonds out as collateral GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Portugal will get the nice euros 14 billion of the 78bn allotted to it as part of a european bailout package. The country’s spending cuts and ability to stay on target for reducing its debt were reviewed by a team that visited Monday, from the three agencies [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/28/portugal-passes-muster-for-next-funding-round/feed/ 0 IFMA: Debt + Deflation = Devastatinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/21/ifma-debt-deflation-devastating/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/21/ifma-debt-deflation-devastating/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:05:30 +0000 admin http://genevalunch.com/?p=63507 GenevaLunch.com Presentation by Philippe Coutaz, Chief Economist of Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique discussing and comparing the economic events of the past with those of today’s current market. Registration and pre-payment to signup@ifma-net.ch no later than 2 December.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/21/ifma-debt-deflation-devastating/feed/ 0 And now, Italy . . . (Chappatte cartoon)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/11/and-now-italy-chappatte-cartoon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/11/and-now-italy-chappatte-cartoon/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:13:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63464 GenevaLunch.com ©2011 Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/11/and-now-italy-chappatte-cartoon/feed/ 0 Greece’s new PM could be ex-central banker, Italian worries growhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/07/greeces-new-pm-could-be-ex-central-banker-italian-worries-grow/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/07/greeces-new-pm-could-be-ex-central-banker-italian-worries-grow/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:54:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63323 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Bond markets were nervous Monday as Greece scurried to put in place a 100-day emergency coalition government that will push through a bailout plan before money runs out. Governments in the eurozone rushed to placate the traders as Italy’s borrowing reached its highest-ever point, raising new fears about its financial stability. Reuters [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/07/greeces-new-pm-could-be-ex-central-banker-italian-worries-grow/feed/ 0 Italy’s debt downgraded by S&Pshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/20/italys-debt-downgraded-by-sps/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/20/italys-debt-downgraded-by-sps/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:36:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61692 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Standard and Poor’s downgraded Italy’s sovereign debt Tuesday 20 September by one notch to A/A-1, and it maintained its “negative” outlook. The move came as a surprise to markets, which expected Moody’s to downgrade Italy first, according to CNBC, but it has said it will wait a month to decide. The S&P [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/20/italys-debt-downgraded-by-sps/feed/ 0 Young Swiss francophones rack up more debt on phone and Internet than other Swisshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/13/young-swiss-francophones-rack-up-more-debt-on-phone-and-internet-than-other-swiss/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/13/young-swiss-francophones-rack-up-more-debt-on-phone-and-internet-than-other-swiss/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:38:18 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=61535 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss aged 18-25 are more prone to get into debt in e-commerce, telecommunications and health than people aged 32 and up, says the European-based credit management and services company Intrum Justitia in its 2011 Radar study. On average, young people in Switzerland owe CHF468 for subscriptions to mobile phones and Internet. People [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/13/young-swiss-francophones-rack-up-more-debt-on-phone-and-internet-than-other-swiss/feed/ 0 New US ambassador urges calm over debthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/15/new-us-ambassador-urges-calm-over-debt/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/15/new-us-ambassador-urges-calm-over-debt/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:04:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60631 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The new US ambassador to China, Gary Locke, told reporters at his first press conference in Beijing Sunday 14 August that the US is committed to “getting our fiscal house in order”, in response to Chinese criticism in recent days of what official media have called the American “addiction to borrowing”. China [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/15/new-us-ambassador-urges-calm-over-debt/feed/ 0 Obama insists on need for higher debt ceiling as heat waves set inhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/11/obama-insists-on-need-for-higher-debt-ceiling-as-heat-waves-set-in/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/11/obama-insists-on-need-for-higher-debt-ceiling-as-heat-waves-set-in/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:52:29 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59643 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US President Barack Obama told congressional leaders Monday 11 July that they will have to meet for daily talks to resolve the impasse over the US budget, as he pushes for a long-term agreement with Republicans that would raise the national debt ceiling. The budget has already overshot the ceiling of $14.3 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/11/obama-insists-on-need-for-higher-debt-ceiling-as-heat-waves-set-in/feed/ 0 Rough day for Europe: debt stats out, Schengen reforms demandedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/26/rough-day-for-europe-debt-stats-out-schengen-reforms-demanded/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/26/rough-day-for-europe-debt-stats-out-schengen-reforms-demanded/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:43:31 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56940 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The European Union’s frayed edges were showing Tuesday 26 April as governments and their citizens absorbed the newly published figures for sovereign debt and deficits, some worse than expected, while Italy and France called for reforms of Schengen rules in the face of massive immigration from North Africa. Eurostat, the statistical [...]

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