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Why Greeks Still Want to Keep the Euro, in One Chart
Why Greeks Still Want to Keep the Euro, in One Chart As of midnight European time, Greece has become the first developed country in history to fall into arrears on payments to the IMF. It’s not that much money, by today’s standards: €1.6 billion. But for Greece, which is totally out of money, it’s an […]
The Global Template for Collapse: The Enchanting Charms of Cheap, Easy Credit
The Global Template for Collapse: The Enchanting Charms of Cheap, Easy Credit Cheap, easy credit has created moral hazard and nurtured magical thinking throughout the global economy. According to polls, the majority of Greek citizens want the benefits of membership in the euro/EU and the end of EU-imposed austerity. The idea that these are mutually exclusive […]
Greece Will Default To IMF Tomorrow, Government Official Says
Greece Will Default To IMF Tomorrow, Government Official Says Earlier today, as the exchange between Greece and its creditors got increasingly belligerent, Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas told public broadcaster Eesti Rahvusringhaaling in interview that a possible Greek decision to leave euro area wouldn’t soften stance of other EU countries and that Greece’s debt would still […]
Paul Craig Roberts Warns Greek Government May Be Assassinated In This Crisis If They Pivot East To Stop World War III
Paul Craig Roberts Warns Greek Government May Be Assassinated In This Crisis If They Pivot East To Stop World War III With people around the world worried about the escalating crisis in Greece and conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, today former U.S. Treasury official, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, warned King World News that the […]
Greek debt crisis: ‘Something awful’ this way comes
Greek debt crisis: ‘Something awful’ this way comes The next “final” twist in the exhausting Greek drama is upon us, and it’s looking like “something awful” is about to befall the country’s banking system, Citigroup analysts said yesterday. A deal was on the table Friday, but the ECB’s move over the weekend to freeze emergency loans […]
A Week of Crisis for Greece and Global Markets
A Week of Crisis for Greece and Global Markets After years of false starts it appears that the ‘Grexit’ is finally in motion. Yet when the dust finally settles, this week will be remembered for its market volatility – not as the time when Greece kicked itself out of the euro zone. Cooler Heads […]
Good On You, Alexis Tsipras (Part 1)
Good On You, Alexis Tsipras (Part 1) Late Friday night a solid blow was struck for sound money, free markets and limited government by a most unlikely force. Namely, the hard core statist and crypto-Marxist prime minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras. He has now set in motion a cascade of disruption that will shake the corrupt status quo to […]
Greek Contagion Spreads As Several Italian Bank Stocks Failed To Open
Greek Contagion Spreads As Several Italian Bank Stocks Failed To Open While things have normalized since the open thanks entirely to the SNB’s aggressive EUR-buying, CHF-selling intervention (good to see that central banks have read the BIS’ report and have learned from their prior intervention mistakes), earlier this morning we got a snapshot of what […]
Top German Politician Blasts Nuland & Carter: “F##k US Imperialism”
Top German Politician Blasts Nuland & Carter: “F##k US Imperialism” With intra-Europe relations hitting a new all-time low; and, having already been busted spying on Merkel, Obama got caught with his hand in Hollande’s cookie jar this week, the following exultation from one of Germany’s top politicians will hardly help Washington-Brussells relations. As Russia Insider notes, Oskar […]
I Fear The Greeks, Even When They Bring Gifts
I Fear The Greeks, Even When They Bring Gifts Just another normal morning at the Automatic Earth. Shaking off the local drink – when in Rome.. – and perusing a thousand views and pieces, many on the inevitable topic of ‘Da Referendum’. And I got to say, I can’t even tell whether it’s just me, […]
The Greek Butterfly Effect
The Greek Butterfly Effect Many times nothing happens for a long time. Then all of a sudden everything happens at once. Like a dam break. It builds slowly and then it bursts. Example: Who would have ever thought the Confederate flag would be taken down across the South during the same week that a rainbow flag is symbolically hoisted […]
Greece Invokes Nuclear Option: Tsipras Calls For Referendum
Greece Invokes Nuclear Option: Tsipras Calls For Referendum Update: Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has announced a referendum in a televised speech to the nation after another day of fractious negotiations with creditors closed without a deal. The dramatic move comes after Athens rejected a proposal from the troika aimed at delivering some €16 billion in aid […]
Troika Offers Greece Third Bailout Program, Prepares Emergency Plan If No Deal
Troika Offers Greece Third Bailout Program, Prepares Emergency Plan If No Deal On the heels of Thursday’s failed Eurogroup meeting and heading into what is again being presented as an all or nothing, “Lehman weekend” for Greece and its creditors, reports suggest the troika has offered Greece a third bailout program: GREEK CREDITORS OFFER EU15.5B […]
EU’s Tusk To Greece’s Tsipras: “Game Over”
EU’s Tusk To Greece’s Tsipras: “Game Over” Brinksmanship is building: *GREEK OFFICIAL SAYS TUSK TOLD TSIPRAS AT EU SUMMIT “GAME OVER” *GREEK GOVT OFFICIAL COMMENTS IN TEXT MESSAGE *TSIPRAS TOLD TUSK AT EU SUMMIT “THIS ISN’T A GAME”: OFFICIAL *TSIPRAS SAID AT SUMMIT CREDITORS’ PROPOSALS EXTREME: OFFICIAL *GREECE-AID DEAL IS MATTER OF POLITICAL WILL: GREEK […]
Greece illustrates 150 years of socialist failure in Europe
Greece illustrates 150 years of socialist failure in Europe Greece cannot pay its debts…ever. Nor can several other members of the European Union. That’s why Europe’s elite are loath to place Greece in default. If Greece is allowed to abrogate its debts, why should any of the other debtor members of the EU pay up? […]
