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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 […]
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? […]
The U.S. And EU Will Collapse Regardless Of Economic ‘Contagion’
The U.S. And EU Will Collapse Regardless Of Economic ‘Contagion’ In order to understand what is really going on around the globe in terms of the collapsing economy, we must set aside false mainstream versions of reality. When it comes to the EU and its current fiscal turmoil, it is very important to, in some […]
The Money is Just Sleeping … Let us Wake it Up!
The Money is Just Sleeping … Let us Wake it Up! J.C. Juncker Sets Out to “Wake Up Liquidity” In a recent article on the never-ending Greek Kabuki theater, we have come across parts of an interview EU budget commissioner Kristalina Georgieva has given to AFP, in which she explains J.C. Juncker’s cunning plans to “kick-start” the […]
The Only Good Deal For Greece Is NO Deal
The Only Good Deal For Greece Is NO Deal The only thing that would really go towards beginning to solve the problems with Greece is for Athens to NOT sign a deal. The short version of why that is so: it would leave the EU intact for longer. And the ECB. Neither have any viable […]
History in Free Verse
History in Free Verse History might not rhyme, exactly, but it’s not bad for free verse. Greece is this century’s Serbia — a tiny, picturesque backwater nation blundering haplessly into the center stage of geopolitics. And the European Union is, whaddaya know, Germany in drag, on financial steroids. Nobody knows what will happen next in […]
Alexis Tsipras—-Angel Of Mercy Or “Trusty” Of The Keynesian Central Bankers’ Debt Prison?
Alexis Tsipras—-Angel Of Mercy Or “Trusty” Of The Keynesian Central Bankers’ Debt Prison? Greece, Europe and the world are being crucified on a cross of Keynesian central banking. The latter’s two-decade long deluge of money printing and ZIRP has generated a fantastic worldwide financial bubble, and one which has accrued to just a tiny slice of mankind. That much is blindingly evident, but there’s more […]
Energy Security in the EU: Pipelines, Powers, and Political Relations
Energy Security in the EU: Pipelines, Powers, and Political Relations The Many Faces of Energy Security The term “energy security,” despite its pessimistic applications and loose definitions, is profligately used in policy circles and academic fields. Limiting disruptions of supply to broader definitions, which have political, economic, and/or environmental bearing, is common of energy security […]
Geopolitics Will Trump Economics in Greece
Geopolitics Will Trump Economics in Greece Based on the continued failure of the negotiating parties to make any substantive progress in the talks over Greek debt payments, the financial world is tied up in knots over a possible Greek exit from the European Union. The uncertainty has manifested in both high and low finance, with […]
Presenting The New Plan For A Eurozone Superstate—–Curly, Larry And Moe
Presenting The New Plan For A Eurozone Superstate—–Curly, Larry And Moe ENLARGE Dutch finance chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem, left, with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, center, and President of the European Council Donald Tusk, right. By Matthew Dalton European officials released a plan to address flaws in the eurozone’s makeup that would see its members sacrifice more […]
The Euro Was Doomed From The Start—–And Still Is
The Euro Was Doomed From The Start—–And Still Is Next week will be a momentous one for Europe, with a string of crucial meetings including the summit at which the PM will table his renegotiation demands. We may be focused on our renegotiation but it is Greece which will dominate. For some time it has looked […]
