tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post4928099636467440768..comments2024-03-29T12:46:22.235+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: The Next Bailout - Slovenia? Postcard From PortorožCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-17813653935428678972013-07-29T14:29:46.404+01:002013-07-29T14:29:46.404+01:00"" So what am I doing here ? Energy of c..."" So what am I doing here ? Energy of course. Slovenian energy users are suffering badly from the fact (previously unknown to me) that the single-market reforms in gas and power (which – despite what Budgie says – are working pretty well in most countries and really well in some) have passed them by. No-one can be arsed to bring EC sanctions to bear on the bad actors in a country as small as this (pop. 2 million). So, despite nestling between the fairly good market of Austria and the improving market of Italy, they are stuck in a pre-competitive, illiquidity time-warp. I can only offer a few palliative suggestions, and the unhelpful comment that it took more than a decade in Germany ... Hopefully, energy-market liquidity will trickle across their borders soon and they can break out of the state-dominated inefficiency trap with some spot-priced gas imports to undercut the ubiquitous Gazprom oil-indexed contracts. <br />""Agence communicationhttp://www.salisoft.manoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-12734961583262153892013-05-31T10:36:18.804+01:002013-05-31T10:36:18.804+01:00""" What will precipitate a Sloveni...""" What will precipitate a Slovenian crisis ? It may be the impending loss of the Prime Minister, who has said she’ll resign if it can be proven that she copied-and-pasted her Masters dissertation. A panel of two professors armed with Google are convening. Google Maps has already brought down one minister, who claimed a non-permitted building development on his land was already there when he bought the site. It was the work of a few clicks to prove it wasn’t ... """assurance infohttp://www.assurancesinfo.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-70062280285033630162013-04-22T15:32:39.094+01:002013-04-22T15:32:39.094+01:00its at Petisovci, ND.its at Petisovci, ND.CityUnslickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-55077525129360186572013-04-22T13:41:26.863+01:002013-04-22T13:41:26.863+01:00haven't heard a peep abt your 5 TCF, CU
onsh...haven't heard a peep abt your 5 TCF, <b>CU</b> <br /><br />onshore, that's a bunch of gas ... will ask around<br /><br />bleedn'ell, <b>Dearieme</b>, is nowhere safe ?<br /><br />'New Switzerland' sounds a bit of a PR puff-slogan, <b>BE</b> - trips off the tongue OK, but a few nice mountains do not a canton make<br /><br />(not at all sure about the <i>good institutions</i>, either)<br /><br />I'll be sending some more postcards in due courseNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-64444885323654468222013-04-22T10:02:12.334+01:002013-04-22T10:02:12.334+01:00Interesting. When Slovenia was about to join it wa...Interesting. When Slovenia was about to join it was billed as a new Switzerland rather than a new Croatia. Good modern industries, good institutions, etc.. What went wrong? Then again, when Cyprus joined the Euro it was one of the richest countries per capita in the union.<br /><br />A Danish friend once said to me that she was definitely in favour of joining the Euro. Denmark, she said, was far too small to have its own currency. It seems to me that you can be far too small to be in the Euro...<br /><br />Blue Eyesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-24191557832300374332013-04-22T09:47:17.275+01:002013-04-22T09:47:17.275+01:00Slovenia may be the new Cyprus, but is the Netherl...Slovenia may be the new Cyprus, but is the Netherlands the new Spain?<br />http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/netherlands-on-edge-of-economic-crisis.htmldeariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-58583513985248822022013-04-22T09:15:19.437+01:002013-04-22T09:15:19.437+01:00Hey MR Drew,
You can do your thing for my shre po...Hey MR Drew,<br /><br />You can do your thing for my shre portfolio whilst there. Ascent Resources, one of my busted AIM gas shares is in trouble. This is because depsite finding a 5TCF on-shore gas field in Slovenia for some reason (alleged corruption) it is being refused s permit to start operations. <br /><br />Once they gett hat going that is most of the domestic supply sorted for the Country, they just need a new Gas fired plant to convert it...CityUnslickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.com