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Greece Admits It Will Not Make IMF Payment On Friday, No Deal Expected Wednesday
Greece Admits It Will Not Make IMF Payment On Friday, No Deal Expected Wednesday For days, Greek officials have been insistent that the country will make a €300 million payment to the IMF this Friday and thus avoid a default. Last month, we heard the same rhetoric out of Athens and as it turns out, […]
Alexis Tsipras: The Bell Tolls for Europe
Alexis Tsipras: The Bell Tolls for Europe This is a letter From Greek PM Alexis Tsipras in today’s Le Monde. I have little to add, his eloquence needs few comments at this moment. One thing is certain: the negotiations will never be the same. And neither will Europe. Straight from the Prime Minister’s offical website: : Alexis […]
Russian Pivot: Greece Will “Probably” Join BRICS Bank, Official Says
Russian Pivot: Greece Will “Probably” Join BRICS Bank, Official Says Greece has very little in the way of bargaining power with European creditors. Outside of gimmicks like tapping its SDR reserves, Athens has no cash to make payments to the IMF in June and, perhaps more importantly, there’s very little in the way of wiggle […]
Greece – Stumbling Toward Default
Greece – Stumbling Toward Default Good Cop Under Fire On June 5, Greece has to pay €240 million to the IMF. A week later another €270 million are coming due. All in all, Greece has to pay back €1.5 billion in IMF loans over the month of June. All indications are that the Greek government […]
The Pressure Just Shifted from Greece to the US and EU
The Pressure Just Shifted from Greece to the US and EU With the 3rd US Q1 GDP print coming in at -0.7% (-3% if not for inventories), perhaps the media spotlights – and lively imagination – can move away from Greece for a few weeks. The US has enough problems of its own, it would […]
Why Europe can’t let Greek economy crumble: Don Pittis
Why Europe can’t let Greek economy crumble: Don Pittis EU must find solution that does not propose stripping elderly of pensions There are vultures in the financial community snapping their beaks and waiting for a Graccident. If you haven’t heard the term before, Graccident is the latest rhetorical bastardization of the English language after Grexit, wherein you attach the […]
Austerity, Economics and Religion
Austerity, Economics and Religion There are many things going on in the Greece vs Institutions+Germany negotiations, and many more on the fringe of the talks, with opinions being vented left and right, not least of all in the media, often driven more by a particular agenda than by facts or know-how. What most fail to […]
Greece Owes $1.2 Billion To Drugmakers As Government Can No Longer Afford Basic Medical Supplies
Greece Owes $1.2 Billion To Drugmakers As Government Can No Longer Afford Basic Medical Supplies Talks between Greece and its creditors went full-retard on Wednesday when the following soundbite from Canada’s FinMin Joe Oliver hit the wires: “No Greek payment to IMF would be default to IMF” That seemed self-evident to us, but in a world governed […]
Is The 505 Trillion Dollar Interest Rate Derivatives Bubble In Imminent Jeopardy?
Is The 505 Trillion Dollar Interest Rate Derivatives Bubble In Imminent Jeopardy? All over the planet, large banks are massively overexposed to derivatives contracts. Interest rate derivatives account for the biggest chunk of these derivatives contracts. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the notional value of all interest rate derivatives contracts outstanding around the globe […]
Pray For Graccident—–It Will Trigger The Demise Of The ECB And The World’s Toxic Regime Of Keynesian Central Banking
Pray For Graccident—–It Will Trigger The Demise Of The ECB And The World’s Toxic Regime Of Keynesian Central Banking It is not surprising that in a few short months Yanis Varoufakis has proven himself to be a thoroughgoing Keynesian statist. After all, what would you expect from an economics PhD who co-authored books with Jamie Galbraith? […]
Grexit “Disaster” Looms As Greek Hospitals Run Out Of Sheets, Painkillers
Grexit “Disaster” Looms As Greek Hospitals Run Out Of Sheets, Painkillers The default countdown is about to go under 10 days and it is becoming increasingly apparent that both Greece and its creditors have had enough. Months of tense negotiations have gone nowhere and yielded exactly nothing and it now looks like PM Alexis Tsipras […]
Greece Says That It Will Default On June 5th, And Moody’s Warns Of A ‘Deposit Freeze’
Greece Says That It Will Default On June 5th, And Moody’s Warns Of A ‘Deposit Freeze’ The Greek government says that a “moment of truth” is coming on June 5th. Either their lenders agree to give them more money by that date, or Greece will default on a 300 million euro loan payment to the […]
Are They About To Confiscate Money From Bank Accounts In Greece Just Like They Did In Cyprus?
Are They About To Confiscate Money From Bank Accounts In Greece Just Like They Did In Cyprus? Do you remember what happened when Cyprus decided to defy the EU? In the end, the entire banking system of the nation collapsed and money was confiscated from private bank accounts. Well, the nation of Greece is now […]
Are They About To Confiscate Money From Bank Accounts In Greece Just Like They Did In Cyprus?
Are They About To Confiscate Money From Bank Accounts In Greece Just Like They Did In Cyprus? Do you remember what happened when Cyprus decided to defy the EU? In the end, the entire banking system of the nation collapsed and money was confiscated from private bank accounts. Well, the nation of Greece is now […]
