11-04 :: April/May 2011

nanotimes Trends Quotes

“… who might replace Mr Strauss-Kahn at the IMF. (…). But given the central role the IMF now plays within the eurozone, as source of fi- nance and, still more, of expertise, it is hard to imagine the Europeans would concede. I su- spect that the US would back them, in which case they will have the votes. Certainly, no non-European could play the role Mr Strauss-Kahn did in the eurozone.”

Martin Wolf: The eurozone after Strauss-Kahn, In: FT.com, May 17, 2011

“Even if investors want to acquire gold they must acquire currencies with which to buy it from existing holders. The real US problem is that of jobless recovery. This is the other side of the rapid rise in productivity - ano- ther league in which the US heads the we- stern world - and the answer to this problem is still faster growth rather than just special schemes.”

Samuel Brittan: Who is winning in the race for recovery, In: Financial Times, 05/13/11:

http://www.samuelbrittan.co.uk/text394_p.html

“There‘s still a long way to go. The unemplo- yment rate is still 9 percent, we‘re nowhere close to a really tight labor market that usually predicates a recession, so I think we‘re still be in a recovery for a few years.”

Jan Hatzius, chief U.S. economist of Goldman Sachs, told CNBC, In: CNBC.com, May 17, 2011

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