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Is Greece About to Play its Geopolitical Trump Card and Ignite a Chain Reaction Across Europe?
Is Greece About to Play its Geopolitical Trump Card and Ignite a Chain Reaction Across Europe? If the EMU powers persist mechanically with their stale demands – even reverting to terms that the previous pro-EMU government in Athens rejected in December – they risk setting off a political chain-reaction that can only eviscerate the EU […]
Greece Prepares To Leave
Greece Prepares To Leave Speculation and expert comments are thrown around once more – or still – like candy on Halloween. Let me therefore retrace what I’ve said before. Because I think it’s really awfully simple, once you got the underlying factors in place. But first, if one thing has become obvious after Syriza was […]
The ECB’s Noose Around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments
The ECB’s Noose Around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments Remember when the infamous Goldman Sachs delivered a thinly-veiled threat to the Greek Parliament in December, warning them to elect a pro-austerity prime minister or risk having central bank liquidity cut off to their banks? (See January 6th post here.) It seems the European Central Bank (headed by Mario […]
In Spain, Rapid Rise of Leftists Has a Familiar Ring
In Spain, Rapid Rise of Leftists Has a Familiar Ring MADRID — He has promised to restructure the debt. He has said it is time to change laws “that allow the rich to keep stealing from us.” He has vowed that Brussels “cannot threaten us” and that “we don’t want any more heads of government […]
Humiliated Greece eyes Byzantine pivot as crisis deepens
Humiliated Greece eyes Byzantine pivot as crisis deepens Neither side holds the upper hand in the strategic game of chicken which could still see Greece forced out of the euro Greece’s new currency designs are ready. The green 50 drachma note features Cornelius Castoriadis, the Marxisant philosopher and sworn enemy of privatisation. The Nobel poet […]
50 Shades of Greece
50 Shades of Greece When it comes to the ongoing Greek question, I see a lot of people eagerly jump to conclusions, after the ‘debt deal’, that I don’t think are justified; certainly not yet. The overall conviction in the press seems to be that Syriza has given in on just about all fronts, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Move Over Syriza and Podemos – Revolutionary Indian Political Party Sweeps New Delhi Elections
Move Over Syriza and Podemos – Revolutionary Indian Political Party Sweeps New Delhi Elections Critics say that Kejriwal has been acting like a political novice by releasing a slew of allegations that may not come to much. Khurshid, for once, has said that Kejriwal was “an ant taking on the might of an elephant”. Kejriwal […]
Behind The Global – Game Of – Thrones
Behind The Global – Game Of – Thrones Greek PM Alexis Tsipras yesterday laid out Syriza’s stance, and from what I saw he didn’t pull even one punch. Despite all the suggestions from the financial press throughout the past week that Tsipras and Varoufakis reneged on campaign promises to seek debt write-downs, they didn’t, and […]
Europe, US Risk Off After Greece Rejects European Ultimatum, Ukraine Peace Talks Falter
Europe, US Risk Off After Greece Rejects European Ultimatum, Ukraine Peace Talks Falter In the absence of any notable developments overnight, the market remains focused on the rapidly moving situation in Greece, which as detailed over the weekend, responded to Europe’s Friday ultimatum very vocally and belligerently, crushing any speculation that Syriza would back down or compromise, […]
Crunch Time as Greece’s Terrible Deadlines Loom
Crunch Time as Greece’s Terrible Deadlines Loom Since the election of Syriza, the pressure on Greece has been cranked up to almost unbearable levels. The first shot across the bow came from the European Central Bank’s Master of Ceremonies, Mario Draghi, who warned that if Greece didn’t start behaving itself (i.e. stop all this silly […]
Historically speaking, Germany a bigger deadbeat than Greece
Historically speaking, Germany a bigger deadbeat than Greece Germany’s debt defaults after the two world wars dwarfs anything Greece has done, economists say In its attempt to bust the austerity shackles that lenders have imposed, Greece’s new leftist government is finding a particularly unsympathetic ear in Germany, the European Union’s paymaster, which says it is […]
Greece Gambles On “Catastrophic Armageddon” For Europe, Warns It “Only Has Weeks Of Cash Left”
Greece Gambles On “Catastrophic Armageddon” For Europe, Warns It “Only Has Weeks Of Cash Left” One of the bigger problems facing the new, upstart Greek government, which has set before itself the lofty goal of overturning 6 years of oppressive European policies and countless generations of Greek cronyism, corruption and tax-evasion is not so much […]
