Rise takes eurozone rates to 7-year high

Financial Times - Eurozone interest rates hit a seven-year high on Thursday but markets were relieved by a less hawkish tone from the European Central Bank, which damped fears of further rises to come.

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Global markets - Bearish battalions

Economist - The past six months could be seen as a dreary exercise in sharing out the pain. Will workers suffer by seeing their wages rise more slowly than inflation? Will companies have to compensate their workers by raising wages, sacrificing their profit margins? Will central banks treat high commodity prices as a [...]

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Will Trichet drive the world over a cliff?

Telegraph Blog by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - Sadly, we are witnessing the sort of strategic errors that turned the recession of 1930 into a global catastrophe.

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Europe Grapples with Threat of Stagflation

Spiegel - As rising energy and food prices continue to fuel inflation, the economies in industrialized countries are beginning to stagnate. The mix, known as stagflation, presents politicians and central bankers with virtually insurmountable problems.

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Why we need a parents’ liberation movement

sp!ked, by Jennie Bristow - We do not need a women’s liberation movement. We have been there, done that, and concluded that men are not the problem after all. What we do need, in the 21st century, is a parents’ liberation movement, to take a stand against the infantilisation and repression of mothers [...]

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A legend lightens up

Guardian - She has played a concentration camp survivor and a working-class whistleblower, but in Mamma Mia! Meryl Streep sings, dances - and does the splits. Stuart Jeffries hears about women in Hollywood and why Abba are more important than we think

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Feminism Past and Present: Ideology, Action, and Reform

Arion, by Camille Paglia - Feminism is back in the news. After a long period when feminist debate has been mainly confined to Web sites and to books that, however well reviewed, did not find a readership beyond that of other feminists, the current presidential campaign has restored gender war to the center [...]

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