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It is time that the church begin to rise up and be the Church that God intended for it to be. The Church most be the Acts 2:42 church that contend for the faith that Jude 3 says was once delivered unto the Saints.

Ce livre raconte comment, dans les années 1990, la communauté des affaires a fini par acquérir cette légitimité tant convoitée en persuadant le reste du monde que la voie du laissez-faire n''était pas seulement la meilleure et la seule possible mais également la plus soucieuse de répondre à la volonté et aux intérêts populaires. Il montre comment « détruire l''ancien monde » pour en édifier un nouveau, plus sûr, à l''usage des milliardaires fut une entreprise à la fois politique, culturelle et économique. Pages de début Préface Chapitre I. Vers le consentement Chapitre II. Une époque formidable Chapitre III. La bulle démocratique Chapitre IV. Mon Wall Street à moi Chapitre V. L''Amérique se décoince Chapitre VI. La quête de légitimité Chapitre VII. La Marque & les intellectuels Chapitre VIII. Les cultural studies de gauche à droite Chapitre IX. Le journalisme à l''âge des marchés Chapitre X. En route pour bidule.comPostface Pages de fin.

For the time span from 1990 to 2005, the interest rates linkages between big players as the USA, the UK and the Euro-area and small European countries as Switzerland and Denmark are analysed by means of the daily Libor (respectively the daily Cibor for Denmark) interest rates with three-month maturity. For each small European country, two VAR or VEC models have been elaborated. When a co-integrating relation was found, it has been assigned to the relative Uncovered Interest Rate Parity (UIP) between the Euro-area (respectively Germany) and the corresponding small European country. The results for Switzerland suggest that a long-run relation towards the Euro-area exists, but only if the model is estimated for the entire time period. Furthermore, a causal relation stemming from the USA, flowing to the Euro-area (respectively Germany) and the UK has been detected for the period from the unrests in 1992 to the introduction of the Euro in 1999 with an European dominant influence towards the Swiss interest rates afterwards. The UK interest rates have also an impact on Switzerland, however with varying and minor influence. Concerning the outcomes of the Danish models, similar results are found. The relative UIP relation between both the German and the European interest rates is confirmed and Denmark even shows a small interest rate bonus. Due to the big fluctuations of the Danish Cibor around 1992/1993, this period is somewhat discarded. For the period thereafter, the European (respectively German) interest rates have a predominant impact on the Danish interest rates. Moreover, the moderate influence of the USA almost vanishes after the terrorist attacks on 11th September 2001. The effect of the GBP Libor rates is occasionally significant, yet not too relevant.