Showing posts with label Greek financial crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greek financial crisis. Show all posts
22 August 2012

Obols or No Balls

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While policy-makers struggle to increase the flow of money in stagnant national economies they fail to see that it is not the quantity of th...
29 June 2012

Greek Economics

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This is a shameless advertising post, and like so many posts about Greece it is tempting to indulge in a whole variety of puns. My son ask...
8 May 2012

Greek People Take on Financiers

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The situation in Greece is giving clear evidence that economics never could be separated from politics, and that the subject should have ret...
3 March 2012

Can't Pay Won't Pay

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It was three years ago that I first used this title in an article I wrote for the Welsh left magazine Celyn (it means holly). Back then I ar...
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2 March 2012

The Iceman Cometh

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I probably should have divided loyalties about Iceland's decision to get tough with its creditors. After all, the council I am a member ...
28 February 2012

Defaulty Logic

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When is a default not a default? When to call it that might threaten the interests of significant financial players. Greece has arrived at t...
13 July 2011

Repudiating Odious Debt

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The frustrating reality of the situation we face in this unwarranted Age of Austerity is the difficulty of turning the anger against the ban...
20 June 2011

I Sat Down and Wept

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The parallel being drawn between the failure of Lehman Brothers and the potential default of a sovereign nation makes clear the blurred natu...
13 May 2010

Danny the Green on Greece

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An impassioned plea from Danny Cohn-Bendit in the European parliament to rethink the policy on Greece has been posted on YouTube. The link i...
10 May 2010

Theatre of the Absurd

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What are we to make of the late-night performance that took place in Brussels yesterday. The sums of money now being dramatically thrown aro...
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6 May 2010

Dollar, Euro, or Ebcu?

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The unaccountable power of credit-rating agencies has now come under attack from the EU's most powerful politician, Jose Manuel Barroso,...
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