The gypsy taboo

Of Marcello Veneziani

Sand you want to understand what political correctness is raised by the left and adopted by almost all the media, and what damage it actually causes in daily life, the Roma are the perfect sample. Once upon a time you said gypsies and you immediately reached for your wallet or purse, knowing you were taking a risk in their presence. Each of us has seen or experienced not one but ten incidents of theft and attempted theft by them. On the bus, on the street, in crowded places. Or even at home. You said gypsies and in the best case scenario you would get images of women asking you for alms in an insistent and threatening way, they forcefully shove flowers into your hands to demand money, or they cursed you. You said gypsies and images of beard-haired men with knives in their hands came to mind and you wished you would never meet them in solitary spaces.. You said gypsies and you remembered their degraded centers, worse than reception centers for immigrants, dirty and shady places that you need to stay away from. As soon as a gypsy settlement was established, thefts in houses and in the streets increased dramatically.

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Draghi: sulla fine del QE "non è detta l'ultima parola"

Mario DraghiReporting of Wall Street Italia
Of Alessandra Caparello
Inflation is on the right track but “there is still a need for significant accommodative measures”. Go back to talking about Quantitative easing the number one of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi during his speech at the Sintra Economic Forum in Portugal where his colleagues from the Fed and the Bank of Japan, respectively Jerome Powell and Haruhiko Kuroda.
For Draghi thelast word regarding the end of Qe.

"In the 2017 Eurozone growth was higher than we had expected: growth on annual basis recorded in the fourth quarter was the strongest in a decade. But in the 2018 growth has slowed and, until now, it was lower than our expectations (…) Regarding the ECB's monetary policy, as indicated last week the progress made so far towards a sustained adjustment in inflation has been substantial. The expected end of our net asset purchases in December this year is subject to new macro data confirming the medium-term outlook for inflationinflation. Furthermore, the asset purchase program can always be used if contingent events arise that we cannot see at the moment.".

Draghi underlined how confidence in the return of inflation towards the long-term objective has strengthened significantly over the last few months., but uncertainty permeates theeconomic outlook.

“With long-term inflation expectations well anchored, the underlying strength ofEuropean economy and the continued large degree of monetary accommodation allow us to be confident that inflation will converge towards our objective and that this convergence can be maintained even after a gradual winding down of our program of net asset purchases.".

Therefore, says Draghi, the "monetary policy in the Eurozone must remain patient, persistent and prudent”. Read More

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Austerity? Nonsense, word of the ECB

Of Roberto Pecchioli
Austerity? Nonsense, word of the ECB
Source: Heretically
Consulting foreign newspapers broadens your horizon. Far from our home journalism, busy rummaging through CVs or fueling fascist hunts - now it's the Minister of the Family's turn Lorenzo Fontana – we can read interesting news carefully hidden from us. An example is the European Central Bank report entitled “On the sources of economic cycles. Implications for DSGE models.” The acronym means General Equilibrium of Stochastic Dynamics. In the initiatory jargon of economists, stochastic stands for probabilistic, and talking about probable scenarios is already a nice bath of humility on the part of the snooty masters of histograms and mathematical models. Economists are very good at explaining in retrospect how things did not go as they had predicted. Il report of the ECB follows the opposite path, a commendable example of realism and concrete research. Read More

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