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Greek Deposit Run Accelerates Ahead Of Monday’s Bank Holiday
Greek Deposit Run Accelerates Ahead Of Monday’s Bank Holiday Official Greek deposit data began tumbling in December (outflows around EUR3bn), and accelerated in January in the run up to the Syriza election (proxied by JPMorgan at over EUR 12bn). During the last two weeks, however, the absence of ATM lines and visible bank runs has been […]
How Germany Is Blowing Up The European Union
How Germany Is Blowing Up The European Union As Germany is set to reject a Greek loan extension request (and no, international press, that is not the same as an extension of the bailout program), Steve Keen uses proprietary numbers issued by the OECD – which is supposed to be on Germany’s side?! – to […]
Meet the bureaucrat who had the courage to tell the truth (and probably won’t have a job tomorrow)
Meet the bureaucrat who had the courage to tell the truth (and probably won’t have a job tomorrow) It’s not very often that you hear a senior government official refer to their economic situation using the word ‘crisis’. Yet with uncharacteristic bluntness of any government official anywhere, at least one senior Chinese government official is […]
Game theory and the king’s new clothes
Game theory and the king’s new clothes I’ll admit to being a bit obsessed with Syriza and the Eurozone at the moment (here and here): it is by some way the most interesting development at the moment in both politics and economics. And I’m also interested in the idea that Yanis Varoufakis’ background teaching game theory might have […]
Greece and the Endgame of the Neocolonial Model of Exploitation
Greece and the Endgame of the Neocolonial Model of Exploitation With the bankruptcy of Greece now undeniable, we’ve finally reached the endgame of the Neocolonial-Financialization Model. We all know how old-fashioned colonialism worked: the imperial power takes physical control of previously independent lands and declares its ownership of the region as a newly minted colony. […]
Failed Discipline, Failed Reforms and Grexit: Why the Euro Failed
Failed Discipline, Failed Reforms and Grexit: Why the Euro Failed There is no substitute for the discipline of a market that cannot be manipulated by political elites. It’s not that difficult to understand why the euro is doomed to fail. Given its structure, there is no other possible outcome but failure. Greece’s exit (Grexit) will simply […]
YANIS VAROUFAKIS: THE STRAW THAT BREAKS THE PONZI’S BACK?
YANIS VAROUFAKIS: THE STRAW THAT BREAKS THE PONZI’S BACK? What do you do when your opponent won’t play by the rules? Worse, what do you do when your loan ‘partner’ (aka ‘debtor’) declares Calvinball, where the only rule is there are no rules, and proceeds to go off the deep end? The result, to put it […]
Memo To Obama: Butt Out Of The Greek Crisis—-You’ve Dispensed Enough Keynesian Poison At Home
Memo To Obama: Butt Out Of The Greek Crisis—-You’ve Dispensed Enough Keynesian Poison At Home At the moment, Europe is struggling to pass an inflamed financial gallstone. The sooner that Greece is permitted to escape the debt clogged financial ducts fashioned by its Brussels paymasters, the sooner the entirety of Europe can begin the cure of […]
Greece and Euroland’s Crumbling McMansion of Debt
Greece and Euroland’s Crumbling McMansion of Debt All the gimmicks lenders press on borrowers to maintain the artifice that the loan is being serviced are financial frauds. Sometimes the best way to summarize a complex situation is with an analogy. The Greek debt crisis, for example, is very much like the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-08. […]
Athens vs. Brussels: Greece Inches Closer to Renewal of Debt Crisis
Athens vs. Brussels: Greece Inches Closer to Renewal of Debt Crisis The new government in Athens is intent on forcing Europe to change its approach to Greek debt — thus far in vain. A confrontation is brewing, and both sides stand to lose. After new Greek Finance Minister Giannis Varoufakis had been repeatedly rebuffed on his […]
Could Turkey Become the New Ukraine?
Could Turkey Become the New Ukraine? The deepening crisis in Ukraine is boosting Turkey’s decade-long efforts to establish itself as the lynchpin in energy flows from eastern providers to European customers. On February 8, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z and Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Alexei Miller surveyed possible routes for the so-called “Turkish Stream” gas […]
Keeping Greece in the eurozone is worth the pain: Don Pittis
Keeping Greece in the eurozone is worth the pain: Don Pittis To misquote Mao Zedong, creating a single currency is not a tea party. Despite former U.S. central banker Alan Greenspan’s disparaging comments about the future of the euro, Americans had far worse problems creating a single currency. The question facing the Europeans as they hammer […]
Athens vs. Brussels: Greece Inches Closer to Renewal of Debt Crisis
Athens vs. Brussels: Greece Inches Closer to Renewal of Debt Crisis After new Greek Finance Minister Giannis Varoufakis had been repeatedly rebuffed on his introductory tour of European capitals, he opted for flattery and solicitation during his visit to Berlin last week. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, Varoufakis said, had been an object of his admiration […]
The Euro’s Exponential Decay
The Euro’s Exponential Decay I don’t know about you, but I’m having a ball reading up on the preparations for the Wednesday/Thursday talks between Greece and .. well, everybody else. German FinMin Schäuble proudly declares that it’s do what I tell you or you’re finished, Greek FinMin Varoufakis says prepare for a clash. Greek advisors […]
Europe’s Greek Showdown: The Sum Of All Statist Errors
Europe’s Greek Showdown: The Sum Of All Statist Errors The politicians of Europe are plunging into a form of ideological fratricide as they battle over Greece. And “fratricide” is precisely the right descriptor because in this battle there are no white hats or black hits—-just statists. Accordingly, all the combatants—the German, Greek and other national politicians and the apparatchiks […]
