I like to read about money/finance as an attempt to be a well informed investor. As a result, I've read tons of stuff over the last few years including articles about Goldman Sachs, Countrywide, New Century, Michael Burry, and California mortgage entrepeneurs, and books like Bailout Nation, When Genius Fails, House of Cards, Greatest Trade Ever, etc.
So where in heck can I read about this stuff from the EU perspective? There were bubbles in several countries in Europe, so there has to have been a lot of somewhat similar stuff going on. Anyone got links or seen anything interesting?
Where to read about the mortgage/economic crisis in EU?
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Re: Where to read about the mortgage/economic crisis in EU?
Edward Hughes collective blog 'Fistful of Euros'.sdrone wrote:I like to read about money/finance as an attempt to be a well informed investor. As a result, I've read tons of stuff over the last few years including articles about Goldman Sachs, Countrywide, New Century, Michael Burry, and California mortgage entrepeneurs, and books like Bailout Nation, When Genius Fails, House of Cards, Greatest Trade Ever, etc.
So where in heck can I read about this stuff from the EU perspective? There were bubbles in several countries in Europe, so there has to have been a lot of somewhat similar stuff going on. Anyone got links or seen anything interesting?
Paul Krugman blog (on and off). Krugman wrote one of the original papers (about 25 years ago) about international financial crises.
Simon Johnson blog (The Baseline Scenario). Johnson is ex chief economist of IMF, knows a lot about country solvency crises.
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www.economist.com is one place to look - though some parts are premium there's plenty of good free stuff if you don't want to subscribe - it has high quality reporting from many countries across Europe. For example here is an article on Portugal discussing whether it's the next Greece. http://www.economist.com/world/europe/d ... d=15959527 and a previous leader article on the current issues http://www.economist.com/opinion/displa ... d=15908513. Obviously the economist has its own editorial viewpoint, but it's usually strong on data - I'm a satisfied subscriber to a print edition.
www.ft.com as well - though you may find its registration and restrictions more onerous and IMO it has less European breadth than the economist.
Together with the BBC ref above they will all also give you a European perspective on the US that you might find interesting as well as providing links to hop off to.
www.ft.com as well - though you may find its registration and restrictions more onerous and IMO it has less European breadth than the economist.
Together with the BBC ref above they will all also give you a European perspective on the US that you might find interesting as well as providing links to hop off to.
http://uk.reuters.com/
The problem with all of these is that you get a UK perspective which is decidedly not the same as European perspective. Try
http://www.spiegel.de/international/
The problem with all of these is that you get a UK perspective which is decidedly not the same as European perspective. Try
http://www.spiegel.de/international/