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...Dublin's Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). That starved Ireland's exporters of valuable resources. The result: the country's share of euro-zone exports has slipped by a fifth since 2001, while housing investment grew to 14% of Ireland's economy by 2006, roughly three times the European average. When values and demand began to fall - house prices fell 10% in the year to August, while apartments at the Grange are now selling at a rate of just one or two a week - it left a gaping hole in Ireland's growth prospects...
...lingers: What drives this gaffeur from Milan to continue an unbroken series of comments guaranteed to offend someone? What, for example, was the Italian Prime Minister thinking three years ago when he credited his own "playboy" powers for persuading Finland's female prime minister to agree that a key European Union agency be accorded to Italy? And what prompted him to compare a German member of the European Parliament to a Nazi prison guard, or to flash two fingers of the cuckold behind the head of the Spanish foreign minister during the family photo at a European summit...
...misleading title. The opening act of 2666 is about four literary critics, three men and one woman, all friends, all European, all of whom are authorities on a mysterious German novelist named Archimboldi, whom none of them have ever met. The four friends go to conferences, talk about Archimboldi, gossip, visit one another, sleep with one another. Eventually, they get a tip that Archimboldi has been seen in a backwater town in northern Mexico called Santa Teresa. Three of them make the trip there in search...
...adjusted assets - is 9.8%, several percentage points above the 7% required by Canada's federal bank regulator. That's a little better than major U.S. commercial banks like Bank of America, but significantly higher than an average capital ratio of about 4% for U.S. investment banks and 3.3% for European commercial banks...
...quick military solution. With 17,000 troops on the ground, the U.N. force may be the largest the world organization is currently fielding but those peacekeepers have not been able to fulfill even their limited mandate of protecting civilians. Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, has called for the European Union to send reinforcements. This might serve as good out-of-theater training exercise for the European troops but an extra 2,000 boots on the ground - even if the 27-member body could agree on the mission - would do little to address the root causes of the conflict...