NIALL FERGUSON: A Greek Exit Announcement Would Probably Come On A Sunday Night

Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson went on Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday to discuss the euro crisis and how a Greek exit from the common currency would play out.

 

Ferguson told Zakaria it would go down on a Sunday night:

So, what you would be talking about would be an announcement, presumably on a Sunday night, along the lines of “news just in, those euros that you have in your bank from tomorrow, will [...]

Egypt military ruler ‘to visit Libya’

From breitbart:

Egypt’s military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi is to visit Libya on Monday to bolster ties between the two neighbouring countries where popular protests have unseated veteran leaders, the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper reported.

“Tantawi will visit Tripoli the day after tomorrow to open a new page with Libya,” the newspaper said on Saturday.

He will hold talks with the leader of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, it added.

Tantawi heads the Supreme [...]

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow: a vision for Europe

From the ECB:

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow: a vision for Europe

Speech by Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB, at the Humboldt University, Berlin, 24 October 2011

It is a great pleasure to be invited to speak here at the Humboldt University this evening. One can only be honoured to be in the university of Hegel, Heinrich Heine and the Nobel prize-winning physicists Albert Einstein and Max Planck – not to mention [...]