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...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...They argue that it makes little sense to ban a non-strategic company such as Rusal while leaving Sberbank, VTB and Gazprom et al still tradeable in the US....
...I will discuss the economic effects of protectionism another time. —————————————————————————————————— Footnotes [1] Ricardo Caballero et al have published similar work, and John Cochrane has responded...
...(Wall Street Journal) - Goldman et al should be forced to incur losses on mistaken trades, says Myron Scholes. (Financial Times) - Samuel Brittan: Productivity matters, but it’s not everything....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...- Five hits from Scott Sumner, on the eurozone, FOMC, et al....
...Ratings triggers, forced sales, systemic cliff risk, et al. Still a feature in some eurozone periphery bonds, despite the rally. Portugal for instance....
...Outside the EU, Russia, Turkey et al. are also vulnerable to “optimisation of risk-weighted assets,” to use the euphemism plastered all over eurozone banks’ Q3 results presentations....
...Either the sovereigns that matter will, after many years of austerity, restore solvency or there will be orderly restructuring of Italy, Spain et. al. in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland....
...Except for the bits still keeping Greek, Portuguese (et al.) banks going. September 30 is rather a red-letter day for the euro money markets this week....
...And this time it’s RBS et al on the back foot....
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