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Mario Draghi Covers The Rolling Stones' Greatest Hit

Terry Connelly | Posted 10.09.2012 | Business
Read More: Eurozone, Terry Connelly, Mario Draghi, Golden Gate University, Eurozone Debt Crisis, Ecb, European Central Bank, Business News
Terry Connelly

American observers need to get used to how the Eurozone countries negotiate with each other -- with such a loose and ill-structured currency union, they have to use the only tools at their disposal.

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The Euro Gets a New "Transmission" From Super Mario

Terry Connelly | Posted 09.30.2012 | World
Read More: Eurozone Crisis, European Central Bank, Golden Gate University, Mario Draghi, Spain Debt, Greece Debt Crisis, World News
Terry Connelly

In their view, the ECB has no treaty-based mandate to print money or undertake "quantitative easing" in this way. If that is the case, however, then the euro is a suicide pact, powerless to defend itself against its own demise.

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A Very Consequential Couple of Weeks

Terry Connelly | Posted 08.19.2012 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Eurozone, Economic Crisis, Mandate, Obamacare, G-20, Golden Gate University, Affordable Care Act, Affordabel Care Act Outcome, Euro-Greeks, Politics News
Terry Connelly

Forget the Wisconsin recall. We are into the last two weeks of June with a calendar loaded with answers to questions that will determine the course of the rest of this year, economically and politically.

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Is Merkel the Herman Cain of the Eurozone: NEIN - NEIN - NEIN? (And Why It Matters to the U.S.)

Terry Connelly | Posted 08.06.2012 | World
Read More: Angela Merkel, French Elections, Eurozone, Terry Connelly, European Central Bank, Greek Elections, Golden Gate University, World News
Terry Connelly

Sometimes it seems that the chancellor would rather go down in history as the German who sank the euro rather than appear to be following a made-in-America idea.

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Top 10 Reasons Why Facebook's IPO Went Badly

Terry Connelly | Posted 07.31.2012 | Business
Read More: Executive-Pinstripe-Hoody, Mark Zuckerberg, Terry Connelly, Facebook IPO, Golden Gate University, Business News
Terry Connelly

Were they listening to their own stock analysts and sales forces? Or, were they just getting greedy knowing that retail investors did not know what they knew?

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A Quick Word on JP Morgan's "Hedge Gone Wrong" -- Was It a Euro Election Bet?

Terry Connelly | Posted 07.17.2012 | Business
Read More: Citibank Losses, Terry Connelly, Eurozone, Jamie Dimon, Golden Gate University, Business News
Terry Connelly

The timing of JP Morgan's trading moves leads to the obvious question -- whether the London-based traders who happened to run the desk at Morgan London were making a bet on the outcomes of the French and Greek elections themselves.

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Supreme Court to Obamacare: Drop Dead?

Terry Connelly | Posted 06.04.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: Supreme Court, Obamacare, Golden Gate University, Justice-Ginsberg, Justice Kennedy, Supreme Court Obamacare, Obamacare Supreme Court, Obamacare 2012, Justice Scalia, Health Care Law, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Supreme Court Health Care, San Francisco News
Terry Connelly

The Supreme Court's conservative majority seems to be caught up in what we might call the "broccoli patch."

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