The creation of the EFSF - such gripping drama

The FT has a fantastically well researched and sourced article on the events that led to the creation of the European Financial Stability Fund, "Dinner at the edge of the abyss", written by the great Tony Barber. Really good for anyone interested in the history of European integration and about what country stands for what in that debate.

Wofgang Munchau on the Chinese Renmimbi Manipulation

If you are interested in what happens in the world, please read this article by the FT's Wolfgang Munchau.It summarises the economic logics underlying the discussions about Chinese monetary intervention. More importantly it argues for a forceful approach to Chinese monetary manipulation. I'm a big fan of his blog, and even if I don't always agree with him, he is always insightful, clear and fair. He mentions an article from VoxEU contributor and Centre for European Policy Studies' Director Daniel Gros, which very intelligently argues for the use of reciprocity in arguing for capital controls, which would be legal, apparently, against the much touted trade wars.I agree with these means, as it seems nothing better exists. However, I believe his analysis may be slightly myopic.

How to read exclusive articles on the FT's website

I've made a comment about this in a previous post, but I'll make a more thorough point about it now in this post, if for no other reason that I'll refer to this post each time I'll link anything to a FT article.

Many times when I link to the FT's website, the article will not seem to be accessible. A message will pop up saying that you need to subscribe to access that type of article or that you have reached your limit for the number of article that you can view for a specific period of time (generally 30 days).

So here's the disenchanted magic: If you use firefox for example, although you won't be able to see the title of the article inside the window, because it is covered by the error message, you can still see it on the top left-hand corner of the screen, as the title of the window. All you have to do is to copy the title of the relevant article into google and search for it. Among the results that you'll obtain you'll find what seems, by all accounts, to a link to the window you were just redirected from this website. The only difference is that the link from google works, where as the link from this blog, or for that sake from the FT's own website does not.

So there you go. That's the googly magic of FT articles!