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Lucas and Luna analyze the European Central Bank's latest monetary policy decisions and their ripple effects across Eurozone sovereign debt markets, corporate borrowing costs, and continental equity indices. Each episode opens with a precise recap of the week's key ECB communications—rate decisions, forward guidance shifts, and inflation projections—then traces how those signals transmit through real-economy channels: German Bund yields, Italian BTP spreads, French CAC 40 sectors, and the euro's trade-weighted exchange rate. The conversation stays grounded in named cases—how a Mittelstand manufacturer finances expansion when the deposit facility rate is at 3.75%, or why a Spanish bank's net interest margin reacts differently to a 25-basis-point hike than a French insurer's solvency ratio. Lucas brings the journalist's instinct for the policy narrative and the numbers behind Frankfurt's statements; Luna presses on the practical implications for asset allocators, export-oriented business
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Lucas and Luna examine how Eurozone manufacturers and energy utilities are being squeezed by a double whammy: the strong dollar is making their dollar-denominated debt payments more expensive, while the US-China tariff w
Eurozone manufacturers borrowed heavily in US dollars when rates were near zero, betting on cheap funding and stable exchange rates. Now the dollar index sits at 120.5, the euro is flat at 1.14, and those dollar-denomina
Episode 130 of the European Economy Podcast: Why rooftop solar in Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands is pushing daytime wholesale electricity prices into negative territory more than 200 days per year. Lucas and Luna ex
Lucas and Luna examine how private credit has grown from a niche funding source into a mainstream alternative to bank loans in the Eurozone. They discuss the surge in direct lending funds, the types of companies turning
In this episode of The European Economy Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a surprising pocket of risk in Eurozone commercial real estate: the office segment. While headlines focus on US office distress, European banks hold
European startups have a funding problem. Traditional banks aren't lending, and venture capital is pulling back. But a quieter market is stepping in: venture debt. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how non-bank len
European defense stocks have been on a tear since 2022, but a new pattern is emerging: the best performers are no longer the ones with the biggest government contracts. Lucas and Luna examine how Rheinmetall, Thales, and
Episode 125 of The European Economy Podcast: Lucas and Luna explore a quiet shift in Eurozone insurance company asset allocation. With bond yields still compressed and the ECB signaling a slower normalization path, insur
Episode 124: Lucas and Luna examine why European startups are increasingly turning to private credit funds instead of traditional banks. With the ECB holding rates higher for longer and banks tightening lending standards
European supply chains are fracturing. In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine a quiet but powerful realignment: Eurozone companies are simultaneously nearshoring production to Eastern Europe and offshoring low-cost asse
New ECB data shows eurozone banks are parking record excess reserves at the central bank rather than lending to businesses. With the ECB's deposit facility rate still above 3%, banks earn a risk-free 3.5% on reserves whi
The Eurozone is seeing a curious divergence: services inflation remains stubbornly above 4 percent, yet government bond yields are falling. Lucas and Luna explore why the ECB's rate path is being repriced — not because i
Episode 120 of The European Economy Podcast. Lucas and Luna examine a quiet shift in corporate finance: Eurozone companies are increasingly issuing debt in US dollars rather than euros. With the trade-weighted dollar ind
The eurozone's trade surplus hit a record in Q2 2026 — but zoom in and the picture fractures. Lucas and Luna examine the export data: machinery sales to the US and China are booming, but chemicals and autos are losing gr
Eurozone retail investors have been selling domestic equities and piling into US ETFs at a record pace. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the data behind the shift: why German and French households are fleeing their
In this episode of The European Economy Podcast, Lucas and Luna examine a puzzling disconnect in the Eurozone: despite the ECB cutting rates by 75 basis points over the past two quarters, commercial bank lending to busin
Episode 116 of The European Economy Podcast digs into a surprising inflation pattern: while overall Eurozone food inflation has eased, fresh fruit and vegetable prices are still rising at nearly double the rate of packag
While the Eurozone economy shows signs of strain—with wholesale prices unexpectedly declining in June and manufacturing weakness persisting—one sector is quietly outperforming. In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine why
Episode 114 of The European Economy Podcast. Lucas and Luna examine why Eurozone wholesale prices unexpectedly declined 0.3% in June, driven by a sharp drop in gasoline costs. They explore what this means for the ECB's n
Episode 113 of The European Economy Podcast. Lucas and Luna examine why the Eurozone's trade surplus is at a record high while industrial production stagnates. They break down the divergence between services exports and
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