www.stopcartel.net Short Description Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:33:14 +0300 info@stopcartel.org http://www.stopcartel.net/etc/images/logo-rss.gif8831 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/ECONOMY/Fright_at_the_end_of_the_tunnel?/497.html Some European countries are doing well and are on the road to economic recovery. Others are still struggling and are only now being hit by the worst of the crisis.When we talk about ‘economic recovery’ in the eurozone, what does it mean and which factors need to be taken into account? Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:33:14 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/ANTITRUST/Top_5_Graphs_of_the_Week_-_4_September_2010/494.html This week we look at some particularly strong second quarter GDP numbers out from emerging markets Brazil and India, as well as one lucky developed market, Australia. Then we review the PMI results from the two biggest economies; China and the US. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:56:50 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/POLITICS/As_nationalism_rises,_will_the_European_Union_fall?/495.html The European Union is dying -- not a dramatic or sudden death, but one so slow and steady that we may look across the Atlantic one day soon and realize that the project of European integration that we've taken for granted over the past half-century is no more. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:55:29 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/ECONOMY/EU_ΟΚs_Greek_Recapitalisation_Scheme_For_Banks/496.html The European Commission Friday said it has authorised under EU State aid rules a scheme for the recapitalisation of credit institutions in Greece by the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (FSF). Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:54:44 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/US_ANTITRUST/Competition_is_a_good_thing--or_not/486.html Eric Holder, Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, and Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, were in Fort Collins, Colo., on Aug. 27 to conduct a workshop on competition issues in agriculture. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:47:47 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/CONSUMERS/The_Dow_vs._the_economy/493.html Stock market indexes like the Dow and the S&P500 have as much to do with the real economy as weather has to do with geology. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:46:22 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/ANTITRUST/Texas_opens_antitrust_investigation_of_Google/488.html Google will face an antitrust investigation in Texas over charges that it manipulated search results, in what appears to a similar case to one pending in Europe. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:46:20 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/US_ANTITRUST/Former_U.S._Army_contracting_official_pleads_guilty_to_making_false_statement_to_the_U.S._Army/487.html According to a one-count felony charge filed on July 16, 2010, in the U.S. District Court in Denver, William T. Armstrong, former chief of the construction division of the Fort Carson Directorate of Contracting, made a false statement in connection with a matter involving the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, an agency within the executive branch of the United States. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:45:36 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/CORRUPTION/School's_in_for_the_Anti-Corruption_Community/492.html Corruption thrives in silence and isolation. In response, several hundred representatives of governments, business and civil society gathered today in Vienna to celebrate with some pomp the opening of the International Anti-Corruption Academy. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:30:07 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/ENVIRONMENT/UN_debuts_website_for_tracking_climate_aid/491.html Fast Start Finance website to provide information on industrialised nations' climate funding commitments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:23:45 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/CIVIL_SOCIETY/Civil_society_divided_over_truth_team_role/490.html Civil society organisations were on Friday divided over whether to support the truth commission or demand that it be disbanded. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:16:41 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/09/04/ANTITRUST/Sabancı_University_hosts_top_economists/489.html The 37th Annual Conference of European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, or EARIE, started in Istanbul on Thursday with a speech by keynote speaker Carl Shapiro. The event was organized by Sabancı University. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:05:24 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/08/28/ECONOMY/Economic_forecaster:_‘Greatest_Depression’_coming/484.html Collapse of middle class means there's no fuel for recovery..The US economic recovery in recent quarters is little more than a "cover-up" and the world is headed for a "Greatest Depression," complete with social unrest and class warfare, says a renowned economic forecaster. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:01:11 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/08/28/ECONOMY/Top_5_Economics_Graphs_of_the_Week_-_28_August_2010/481.html This week we take a look at GDP stats from the robust German economy, and the less than robust US economy. Then we look closer at the US situation; reviewing the existing home sales data, and consumer sentiment data. We then wrap up with a review of the July trade figures from Japan. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:29:22 +0300 http://www.stopcartel.net/2010/08/28/ECONOMY/Markets_vainly_seek_safety_in_numbers/482.html A well-built boat will stay on an even keel as long as its passengers do not all flock to one side. Markets are similarly self-stabilising. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:25:57 +0300