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Beware of American econ professors!
Beware of American econ professors!
How Krugman, Sachs and Stiglitz led the Greeks astray.
In countless public utterances and interviews since his resignation, former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has spoken of how he urged the prime minister to authorize the issue of a parallel currency, to declare that Athens would default on €3.5 billion in Greek government bonds owed to the ECB on July 20 and to seize control of the Bank of Greece. Such an aggressive move would have led inevitably to the introduction of a new currency.
The idea was to use the personal data of Greek taxpayers to secretly create parallel accounts that would facilitate payments in case of a major liquidity squeeze. These accounts would be denominated in euros, but if the need presented itself, they could be turned into the new drachma “at the drop of a hat.”
Varoufakis is not the only one to have harbored revolutionary plans.
“They have served Greece’s cause very poorly indeed.”
On July 14, a few days before he was dismissed from the cabinet for voting against measures mandated by the agreement reached between Tsipras and Greece’s creditors, Panayotis Lafazanis, the head of the Left Platform, the influential far-left faction within Syriza, suggested seizing the national mint and expropriating up to €22 billion in reserves (his figure).
4 Mainstream Media Articles Mocking Gold That Should Make You Think
4 Mainstream Media Articles Mocking Gold That Should Make You Think
For those of you who have been reading my stuff since all the way back to my Wall Street years at Sanford Bernstein, thanks for staying along for the ride. I appreciate your support immensely considering that I essentially no longer write about financial markets at all, and for many of you, that remains your profession and primary area of interest.
There are many reasons why I stopped commenting on markets, but the main reason is that I started to recognize I wasn’t getting it right. In fact, in some cases I was getting it spectacularly wrong. Whenever this happens, I try to isolate the problem and fix it. In this case there was no fix, because much of why I was no longer getting it right was rooted in the fact that my heart, soul and passion had moved onto other things. My interests had expanded, and I started a blog to express myself on myriad other matters I deemed important. Providing relevant market information needs intense focus, and my focus had shifted elsewhere. I recognized that I wasn’t intellectually interested enough in centrally planned markets to provide insightful analysis, and so I stopped.
This doesn’t mean I won’t start up again. When central planners do lose control, I may indeed become far more interested in opining on such matters. Time will tell. In the interim, financial markets do still play an important role in the bigger picture of social, political and economic trends I passionately care about. The stability and increase in financial assets (stocks and bonds) is of huge importance to the propaganda machine, in particular keeping the non-oligarchic, non-politically connected 1% in line and believing the hype (see: The Stock Market: Food Stamps for the 1%).
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The Krugman Function – Transition Milwaukee
The Krugman Function – Transition Milwaukee.
Fresh thinking is difficult to perform and is often poorly received, but is not without some pleasures as well. One can expect a distinct combination of frustration and satisfaction when toiling from within a new paradigm that is struggling for its first foothold on the long and hopeful ascent towards conventional wisdom and widespread acceptance. Such frustrations become more acute, and in some cases reflect mortal danger, when the old-guard starts hurling large rocks and boulders down upon you, without bothering to see who is coming up behind them, nor why.
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